I find myself wondering whether the end game leaves you surprisingly competent with a bow and arrow, and returning home to fight crime using your archery skills.

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It's worth highlighting, because I'm not the only person that it's important to, that all of those displays are 16:10.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI take your point about using Windows being better for developers, who mostly develop on/for Windows. But on the other hand, Stadia's probably more efficient. There's reasons Linux dominates the server space. Cheaper infrastructure means savings for someone, so it might have some compensations for either developers or customers.

It's not that using Windows is better, it's just that they're doing that anyway. They aren't paying for the machines to run it on - that comes out of whatever the platform is taking as their cut - but they would have to pay someone to write and test a separate Linux version and they'd just really rather not. When Linux has gained sufficient market share so that all games will get a Linux build as a matter of course, then having to create a Linux build won't be seen as an additional cost, but we aren't there yet. So slapping an existing build on a Windows VM is seen as the cheaper, easier option, even if it's not ultimately easier or cheaper.

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Quoting: fleskStadia unquestionably has more positive repercussions for us, since it forces developers to adapt to Linux and Vulkan, whereas Luna makes that completely irrelevant. No matter what you think of streaming, Stadia is clearly a better deal for our ecosystem than Luna or GeForce Now.

It's just a shame that it's not as good for either developers or customers as the competing services.

For developers, they have to go to the effort of porting to Linux, which they don't have to do for the competitors.

For customers, you don't have access to games you've bought elsewhere, and you lose access to games that you've bought should you lose access to Stadia, which comes from the notoriously-fickle Google.

Which means that it won't have as much impact on the part we care about - game devs getting more experience with Linux gaming and Vulkan - as if it were a more competitive offering.

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Quoting: KeyrockSpeaking of Valve, I'm worried at how long it's been since the last Proton update. This is leaps and bounds the longest I can remember them going without an update. Even glorious eggroll has only had 1 update in months, and that's mostly a maintenance release. I wonder what the hold up is?

I suspect they they might be waiting for better DX12 support, or something else big, to be well on the way before the next update. Early on we were getting frequent updates because DXVK was changing fast, which isn't the case any more. Wine has been concentrating on long-term plumbing recently, too, so there's not been anything must-have from that side, either, at the moment. I don't think there's any cause for concern just yet.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMan, all this masses of stuff about Tray Racing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_(sport)

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I'm looking forward to the vendor-neutral extension being finalised so that drivers can start including it, and then applications can start using it.

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Quoting: bisbyxI want to agree with you. But for people who dont care about nvidia vs AMD. For $700 in 1.5 months, AMD is not going to go roll out something noticeably faster than the 3080. They might roll something out at $700 but the same speed, or they might roll something out 20% faster than 3080... but costs more.

And at that point, you've just waited 1.5 months to get something that is roughly equal.

The reason it's sensible to wait isn't because you're necessarily expecting AMD to release something that will blow Ampere away.

I don't regret my purchase of a 2080 Ti in the slightest: I've had two years of excellent gaming performance, and I'll likely have several more. But if, at the time, AMD had anything to offer that was in the same ballpark, or even competitive with the 1080 Ti, it would likely have been a darn sight cheaper.

In a couple of months' time, if AMD can show that they're in the game, perhaps Nvidia will slash prices, or perhaps they'll release Ti versions. It's worth waiting even if you're planning to get an Nvidia card.

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Quoting: peta77So no reason for me to even think about replacing my 2080Ti. If there'd be a card with same performance & memory and much lower power demands ( -> less heat / noise produced ), I might think about a replacement.

It depends where your bottleneck is with your 2080 Ti. In many ways, the 3070 is going to perform better, if the bottleneck is compute speed rather than VRAM.

While the 2080 Ti has a nominal 250 W TDP, the power cap is configurable with nvidia-smi. If you're happy with the performance of your card but want it to generate less heat you can change that without buying a new card: just lower the power cap. That's what I do for when my machine's folding proteins.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's cool, but at that point why "replace"? Why not just have a desktop computer?

Perhaps you have more than one desk that you work at, or no regular desk.

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