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NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
2 Jun 2021 at 5:12 pm UTC

Quoting: gardotd426Your entire comparison is complete and utter nonsense.

Damn, what does vkd3d-proton have to do with it, if we're talking about drivers?

I do not care about VKD3D-Proton, like potential developers who want to want to release native games for Linux.

Joshua says the main obstacle is the driver and its support. I do not agree with his harsh statements.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
1 Jun 2021 at 6:21 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKillerNvidia had day 1 Linux support, albeit in their beta driver.
Quoting: CatKillerIntel managed to get Linux support for Vulkan ray tracing before AMD, and they don't even have any ray tracing hardware.
What is the point of this, if there were no and almost no games with RT on Linux?
What's the point of chasing a niche (at the moment) technology?

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
1 Jun 2021 at 6:18 pm UTC

Spoiler, click me
Quoting: CatKillerJoshua Ashton
Do you really think that the opinion of some Wine/DXVK developer is very authoritative? His statements are too loud.

Everyone knows that AMD still has problems with GPUs and the software development team. And yes, they are lagging behind with Linux. But to say that they treat Linux as a second-rate thing is wrong and disrespectful. They are trying to move forward, sooner or later they will allocate more budget for Linux. Well, they don't have the kind of money that Nvidia has, you know?

And his last statement:

AMDVLK and AMDGPU-Pro are pretty much worthless as targets for developers. Waiting between 3-months and half a year for a release with new fixes/features is a complete joke for anyone wanting to ship a game or really anything.
It looks extremely offensive. What kind of features do you need to wait for to develop games? :dizzy:
I'm currently looking at the list of Stadia games, and I see that the porters did not interfere with anything with AMDVLK.

To be honest, Valve and its resources could have already agreed with AMD to work on the AMDVLK, even with the NDA.

But no, it's Linux. Open Source. It was necessary to make a fork of the driver, and then the whole community to cry that it is not much different from the official one. :woot:

In order for AMD to start working with Linux faster, they need motivation. And finance. Maybe if they were offered help, they would think about it.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
1 Jun 2021 at 5:24 pm UTC

Quoting: 3zekielPlus, considering AMD did not deem necessary to proprely support VK ray tracing on Linux...
Nonsense. Who told you that?
It may take a lot more work than you think. Have patience.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 6.2 is out now
12 Feb 2021 at 10:02 pm UTC

And so far there is no information about Proton 6.X :neutral:

Steam hits yet another all-time high for users online with over 26.4M
8 Feb 2021 at 10:02 am UTC Likes: 1

The record will be updated again soon. Tomorrow will be the official launch of Steam China...

Ubuntu getting a new installer, desktop lead to leave Canonical
3 Feb 2021 at 4:45 pm UTC Likes: 3

1 feb: Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer. [External Link]

2 feb: I'll soon be leaving Canonical. [External Link]


Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 Jan 2021 at 10:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThis is NOT about regional pricing, it is about region locking within the EU.
Do you understand that one thing leads to another? No? :huh:
What do you think will happen if the geo-blocking is removed? That's right - everyone will run to buy games from other countries at a reduced price.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPwent shopping (groceries, etc.)
Why are you comparing grocecies and digital products? You will not constantly order products from other countries for the sake of saving? I agree that this is not fair to honest users who bought the game on the territory of their country, and could not play it on a business trip because of geo-blocking. But this geo-blocking is aimed at freeloaders who want to get games for 10% of the price in their region.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThose of us within the EU who know how to make a deal...
It is because of people like you that geo-blocking was created.
Can you suggest a better solution for sellers and buyers - suggest.

This issue is already almost 2 years old: https://steamdb.info/blog/steam-geo-locking-europe/ [External Link]
Even Valve itself spoke about the problem of price increases in poor regions.
The elimination of region locks will also mean that publishers will likely raise prices in less affluent regions to avoid price arbitrage.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 Jan 2021 at 4:52 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: mylkamake games expensive for everyone?
Of course. When the EU decided on price tags, all prices were adjusted not for poor Estonia, but for rich Germany and France. Common sense has lost again.

What we expect to come from Valve to help Linux gaming in 2021
17 Jan 2021 at 11:03 am UTC

Quoting: SolarwingIn my opinion this solution also would be nice: USB stick with steamOS preinstalled on it.Connect it with PC and then use Valve's possible game streaming service(which consist of your games in personal library) without needing to install the desired game on a USB stick. But on the other hand it would need a good internet connection. But this is only a suggestion. What Liam(master) wrote about USB stick is also a good solution.:smile:
To do this, they first need to run Steam Play 3.0 (Steam Cloud Play)