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NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
7 April 2017 at 12:11 am UTC

For people with allot of disposable income is my guess. That isn't me for sure, and probably never given how things have been going :(

But with the sale of old PC parts and stuff, I think I can manage a Ryzan 1600x + Rx Vega build in the future....I think 8k screens would need at least a 20tflop card for decent gaming performance, I'd be happy with a 4k OLED screen if those ever go down to decent price ranges...

Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
30 March 2017 at 11:53 pm UTC

I'd say Feral has been working on a Vulkan wrapper pretty well, otherwise we would have seen this on Windows already (normally such a thing comes out first).

I thought it ran pretty decent at 4k on my 980ti before, so this will be awesome. But honestly the game that needs Vulkan the most atm is Deus Ex, I have been holding out buying that until news of better performance hits! heres hoping..

Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
20 March 2017 at 5:43 am UTC

I'm using Win7 atm but will likely move to win10 once I setup my ryzen rig later in the year because MS are pulling a non-support policy for older OS with Ryzen (somehow). I thought AMD and vendors would maintain driver support?

Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
20 March 2017 at 4:28 am UTC

Windows 10 Malware/Spyware edition, that is what MS wants everyone on, they will likely just keep paying big money into developers to get them to support DX12 because I don't see a SANE developer choose DX12 over Vulkan unless there are considerable money issues in doing so.

Also Star Citizen is doing ok, its almost 5yrs in development now and has had several builds out (v0.262 atm I think) and once V3 is released next month? people will get a chance to test out much more of what it has to offer. So to all those people saying its a complete flop, why not actually TRY the alphas out (inc v3 next month) before forming an opinion?

NVIDIA might have more open drivers in future on Linux
17 March 2017 at 6:15 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: AimelaJust look at G-Sync,

To be fare the new Freesync2 is closed loop just like g-sync also. I don't know if AMD will be able to sell freesync2 with the way they intend to do it (exclusive product selection among other things).

Editorial: On paying for Linux games when you already have a Windows version
16 March 2017 at 2:51 am UTC Likes: 2

Then you and others who look at it like that are shortsighted I'm sorry to say.

Its about platforms, CD VHS MP3 are all different media platforms that can run on different devices. WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS PC, PC is NOT multiple platforms, it is ONE! GET IT? I hope so.

But like I said I wouldn't have a issue paying a DLC cost for certain games, but I can see peoples arguments where if EVERY developer did the whole PAY DOUBLE for Linux thing then it will basically kill the chances for the OS in the future. You can expect lots of complaints and refunds to be had. BIG mess!

Editorial: On paying for Linux games when you already have a Windows version
15 March 2017 at 1:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

If they release a SkyrimSE/Fallout4/GTA5/Witcher3 on Linux and ask for a reasonable price then I would be OK with paying again if that's what it takes. But again, at a reasonable price point!!!!

But in all honestly I have very limited funds and I'm sure many others do so buying 2 PC copies for every game isn't practical and will likely result in my just not buying many games and sticking to the ones I already have available. But those 4 above I would make an exception if need be.

Buying Linux support as a DLC option is fine imo.

Planet Nomads plans an Early Access release in April
13 March 2017 at 11:43 am UTC

I think I bought a copy off their website not long back. Hope I don't regret it.

Future Stardock games may come to Linux thanks to Vulkan
11 March 2017 at 11:41 pm UTC

Basically it seems any game that works with Vulkan will work mostly flawlessly under Wine/Vulkan with a 1:1 performance ratio if Doom4 results are to be considered the norm. The only issue would be copy protection perhaps? I think it would be great if developers just bundle up a wine wrapper with their vulkan releases and put it on steamos/linux in such case. (given the parity in performance).

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