Nice to see radv included , as in that Valve is targeting the oss driver. I know they have employed people to help with the oss driver.
It will help devs also code towards a open/standard driver rather than a prop driver that does some unknown tricks/hacks.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: edddeduck_feral

Quoting: GuestI’d love to play this but Steam-only + additional always online DRM means I’ll wait for a huge sale if I ever buy it.

There is no always online requirement for HITMAN. See the opening section from Liam's review for more details.

"To get the elephant in the room out of the way first: The game does have an online requirement for certain features, these are extras and do not affect the main single-player story, which does not require you to be online."

My saves didn't work until I was connected to the hitman servers so I would have to call that an always on to be fair.
I don't class loading a previous save game as a extra/special feature.

Unless there's a setting I've missed that disables it.

I did test this and I tested it again then to be certain, it works fine for me. The game does nag you, telling you the save was made while being online, but I had no trouble loading it while offline.

Just refuses me, states I need to be online, no other options.

I'll give it another go later.

Edit:

Wonder if it's because I was connected to their server when I first started ? Thus not saved locally

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Quoting: edddeduck_feral

Quoting: GuestI’d love to play this but Steam-only + additional always online DRM means I’ll wait for a huge sale if I ever buy it.

There is no always online requirement for HITMAN. See the opening section from Liam's review for more details.

"To get the elephant in the room out of the way first: The game does have an online requirement for certain features, these are extras and do not affect the main single-player story, which does not require you to be online."

My saves didn't work until I was connected to the hitman servers so I would have to call that an always on to be fair.
I don't class loading a previous save game as a extra/special feature.

Unless there's a setting I've missed that disables it.

Quoting: ageresWhat about performance on AMD CPUs? Once again my FX-8350 is in the minimum settings and only Intel is in the max settings.

I'll let you know in a few weeks and I'll compare it against my current 4790k ;)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: pete910Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN

Try this and see what happens :)
            <key name="IndirectX">
                <key name="Direct3D">
                        <value name="UseVulkan" type="integer">1</value>

Quoting: linux_gamer

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: pete910Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN

Try this and see what happens :)
            <key name="IndirectX">
                <key name="Direct3D">
                        <value name="UseVulkan" type="integer">1</value>

Has anyone tried VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS=VK_LAYER_LUNARG_standard_validation?

I will give both a try later :)

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Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN

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Well, had a few good rounds with you all tonight ! :D


Hate them damn grenadiers.......

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What!, Why not "Liam's **** hole server" .....

They proved to be rather popular :P

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Nope, Don't know any of them :P

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: zilotI still find it funny that people recommend Ubuntu as a user friendly distribution, while it have so many issues...

It's still the distro to go to for newbies, despite problems, it does require far less manual configuration, which is the main point for people new to Linux.

Odd point, The vast majority of distros are also th same, Infact a lot require non. Put the disk in, install, done .

That's all I did for Antergos on my daughters, Also mageia for me, Even Mandrake was disk in, install, done and that's 15 + years ago

Unless you are including clicking a package to install like say steam as manual config.

Admit, laptops are a different story

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Have they fixed the bug on 10xx series cards yet? tried the last two iso's. (Oss driver and pascal not good, Shocker!)

Was going to give Ant a go but due to the mouse bug unable to install. (Yes, I know I could text install. IT'S 2017 not 1991 )

Always used rpm based distro's tbh, never liked *buntu. Having trying Antergos on my daughters(AMD card) it is nice, No hunting for packages neither. Only down side to Mageia is packages available. No fault of the Mageia team, just lack of people. Chicken/egg think I guess.

Their KDE version seems rather stable, A lot of other distros don't seem to do KDE well for some unknown reason thus why I've stuck with Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia over the years.

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