Good good, this means that's 1 less reason for devs to use DX12 and DXR. Convincing them Vulkan is the better option will probably be the hardest part.

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8GB is not bad at all, I still do a lot of gaming on a system with this amount. Some titles do use the swap file by a few megs but nothing serious.

What is horrible to see though is that single ram slot on a 1k euro laptop. If I was in the market for a laptop, this certainly wouldn't be it.

The hinge design in the pic doesn't look too bad, and it's easy enough to loosen those hinges should it become tough to open and risking damaging it.

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QuoteVideo playback fixes

I skipped the mfplat report on 5.21, but looks like I'll have a busy day testing tomorrow. I've got a few new additions to the list too.

Also it might be a good time to test some old games with video issues.

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Quoting: ShmerlUpdating firmware from upstream is not hard. Seriously.

My Debian 9 dinosauric OS is ready

Kernel 5.9.9
Mesa 20.2.2
Firmware added

Bonus: Also have Mesa 20.3 configuration ready, rc2 working fine but I'll wait for the official release.

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QuoteHere is your daily dose of not-linux-gaming news

I'd still try to game on it.


I've been experimenting with running Linux on my android phones for a couple of years now. It's not exactly straightforward or easy stuff but a great learning experience. I managed to run normal desktop software such as firefox and such, maybe one day will get 3D acceleration working.

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As a reminder to GOG users buying their games:

They still didn't bother to update the outdated GOG Linux version of their previous game 'World to the West'. I've let them know about it and still nothing has been done.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Avehicle7887Also you might want to make a backup of your xorg.conf file. In my case I also had to run "Xorg -configure" to create a new one to accomodate the AMD gpu.

You should simply remove the old xorg.conf file. You don't need one for AMD or Intel.

In case you want to fiddle with options (e.g. to enable TearFree), it's better to just create a new file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ containing nothing but the device section for the driver.

I didn't know that, thanks!

Quoting: ShmerlCustom models will come out on November 25th.

And so it seems I have been spamming the Amazon search button for nothing. Time to mark my calendar (again).


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I think AMD made a huge improvement with those new GPU's and that solid Mesa support on day 1 is a big plus. I'm not too bothered by the slower RT performance either or lack of DLSS.

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Quoting: ageresI'll start to put aside money for RX 6800 XT. By the way, how to switch from Nvidia to AMD? Do I have to uninstall the Nvidia driver first and then swap cards, or do something else?

I went through that process for one of my systems. I first made sure I have all the updated packages ready at hand (Mesa, Kernel, LLVM and the firmware. Then as the last step I uninstalled the Nvidia driver (.run package from their site) and then installed Mesa.

Also you might want to make a backup of your xorg.conf file. In my case I also had to run "Xorg -configure" to create a new one to accomodate the AMD gpu.

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At 2:31 - System Requirements part:

Other devs: Supporting Linux is hard due to the wide choice of distros....blah...blah...blah
Ethan: Typically people expect Ubuntu 16.04, Arch......nope it's all about glibc

Even though there's more to running a game than just the glibc library (GPU drivers etc), what he said is very true and I see no reason why people should make fun of the listed requirements. In my experience I've found that this matters more than some other libraries in native titles.

As someone who's still running Debian 9 (glibc 2.24) I've encountered 2 games where my glibc wasn't high enough SteamWorld: Quest and Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. For the former game I've compiled a newer glibc from source into a custom folder and LD_PRELOAD'ed the library which solved the issue (game is awesome). Meanwhile for NwN:EE, the same method couldn't be applied, however I've found a complicated method to run it still.

It seems Beamdog was already aware of this issue and in the latest patch they noted "Linux binaries are now built against Debian Stretch (9), fixing requirements to Debian 9, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, or newer. This should take care of the glibc issues some folks were seeing, as well as the stray libsndio linkage."

So to sum it up, it's not the distro type, package manager or whatever name it's given, but the libraries you're compiling against. It's better to use a slightly older distro for broader compatibility and 'you' as the developer won't have to go back to the drawing board and set up a compiling environment all over again for your game in order to fix them.

Nice work Ethan, if you read this, keep it up and thanks for all you do.

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Respect to Beamdog for supporting these games for so long, not many companies support a game this long (8 years since BG:EE was released).

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