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Quoting: ShmerlBy that time, radv can be even better already. AMD developers are also considering stopping their current tedious pre-opensourcing review efforts, and instead complete radv with missing pieces. In the end, as long as result is working well and is open, everyone will be happy.

I, too, am considering forgoing AMDGPU and just using Mesa instead since that is the default in so many distributions anyway. Whatever is easier.

Depending on your use case AMDGPU can be superior at delivering stability if that's a issue in your current setup.

Nvidia blob has always acted kindof janky and given Linux a "second-world" or "second-class" feel to it, but since I moved to RX 480 support is rock solid.

There are minor setbacks and some games perform worse than others (Ark won't load at all) but I generally do about ~100 FPS @ 1080p, 360 FPS on CS:S and CS:GO, Gary's Mod isn't very optimized and dips but I can't recall dropping below 55-60 FPS on anything.

You do kindof want to be using the latest MESA-git and xf86-video-amdgpu (Post July 2016) equivalent in your distro -- and that's about it.

I got bills to pay before I buy a second RX 480 for my girls rig, her nVidia 970 does what it needs to and has better stability via DVI-D anyways. (The major issue for me was that the NVidia doesn't really play nice with HDMI as the only connection -- you'd think this would be a major oversight as Steam Machines are probbaly 100% HDMI? Weird.)

While the GTX 10XX are outselling the RX 4XX I suspect that on Linux AMD will gain a fair marketshare in the next year so long as people's upgrade cycle coincides (Maybe 30-40% AMD?) A couple years from now I would love to see 70% AMD, or a open source nvidia driver -- thats the only thing that will make me agnostic again to the whole GPU war.

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What a glorious day for Canada + Linux, and therefore the rest of the world.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIn fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 – because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.

I'm still waiting for Vega to replace my aging HD7970 :D

And maybe me too depending on the performance difference of Polaris and Vega.

Polaris has turned out to be a good time to switch to Red Team for me.

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Quoting: ZapporFeral even fixes things directly in Mesa! https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421

Quoting: lordheavyAnd radeon vulkan support just got merged :D

Non conformant though, but the seem to fix things damn fast!

Just be sure to thank them when you see them pop into a Reddit thread and express your appreciation - that shit really does go far in developer world.

In fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 -- because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.

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You get to run from this cannibal and kick him in the face all while trying to avoid muder/rape or whatever.

If you have a bunch of friends playing with you you can laugh at the super cheese of the moment like I did.

The burning file prison box was confusing as all hell though sadly, took like 20 minuets to get past that.

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So basically Metal Gear Solid 2 + Twisted Metal. Awesome.

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I've never seen these store links before. Of course it makes sense that buying direct would be a great way of putting the cash directly into their pockets.

I really dont feel like bookmarking them in amongst hundreds of other bookmarks. Is this the kind of thing that could get a page or go into the sidebar?

Maybe a page "Linux Stores" or something.

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Quoting: ColomboDarn. I was waiting for it. Additionally, they say that it will be released for "PC" and they have steam/steamOS logo on their website. But, with current devs, this can mean anything.

Disappointed.

I launched a wall of text on the reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/55vuci/civilization_vi_aspyr_to_launch_mac_version_linux/

Go over there and show your support, we gotta keep causing a ruckus and continue to lay out plainly why Linux Is The Future and why Windows & Apple marketplaces will be bad for business.

The less they think we care the less they'll try.

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This is a example of a game with a simple concept and simple mechanics executed well.

(I'm glad there's DLC and the game is so fun)

Good Mechanics and Simplicity = Fun

Of course you could go the Fizbin route
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@Liam - Maybe reach out to someone to clarify the situation?

This sounds like that other situation with GOG where the dude who said nay was completely clueless as to the situation.

Civ 6 graphics seem like a downgrade from Civ 5, and it will be new and lacking maturity and polish (as was the case with Civ 5 until all the DLC fixed Civ 5)

Their Beyond Earth game wasn't good at all, my girl who loves 5 and plays on her Archbox all the time demo'd it and it was lackluster. I bet sales weren't so stellar as their development took a turn for the worst.

I seriously hope Civ 6 had as good of a crew as Civ 5 because 5 was beast and 6 looks like 3D grit lacking, polished, amateur garbage.

Even though it looks terrible so far, in the hopes that it one day becomes as awesome or more than Civ 5 I hope they just had a internal fsckup and aren't legit about pulling out. PC gaming will inevitably be SteamOS.

SteamOS is the only platform that will truely protect investors and consumers from the middleman fscking everything up like they always do - Windows Store, Apple AppStore -- you know how long a AppReview can take to get your new version pushed out on the AppStore - I've heard up to 8 - 10 months in nightmare scenario's.

Now, call me crazy - but that doesn't sound like a very stable environment for game development investors to put all their chips in on, and then the appstore can just say "Nah, we don't agree or like your thing so we refuse service." -- this has been the case for various comics on Apple's AppStore, and Windows is the new Apple but even more evil. Everyone always expected Apple to look out first for their own interests, but Windows is going out of it's way to be evil spying on users File Tree, Cortona Search Queries, Files, Data, Keystrokes, etc... and they've been responsible for some of the biggest clusterfsck's in PC gaming history - Games for Windows Live? What a fscking hit!

Windows 8? Another hit. Windows Vista? Brilliant! Windows Millennium Edition? Fantastic.

Any developer who sits exclusively on Windows or Mac camp is gonna get their buttox burned when the stove turns on.

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