I recently traded my 4090 for a 7900XTX+Money. NVIDIA 4090 was giving me all sorts of weird issues with my displays such as gamma flutter or blinking if you like, and this was under Windows AND Linux... I couldn't escape it.

No issues with the AMD card yet. Honestly NVIDIA is just TERRIBLE for driver support this year, of cause not all cards suffer these issues.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSingle click to select. Double click to open.
This is the way.

True, can't tell you how often I've fubar'd something up due to single clicks to open/execute/move/break things...

Got to have a bit of buffer for us clumsy mortals!

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I'll be very interested in a Steam Deck 2 once it happens. But atm Steam Deck 1 is not even available to Australians except through 3rd party vendors whom seem to slap on their %10-30 tax and offer no Valve warranty!

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Quoting: bingusWhy support GOG then? They don't treat Linux users nicely.

Just because they don't have a Native Linux Launcher doesn't mean they are ANTI Linux.
Far from it. Also GOG Galaxy 2, after using it for a while under Windows, isn't all that great, not a huge loss if the API method works for most games (unsure about some like NMS).

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I'll be finished the game by the time the patch is around but at least its happening.

ACT-3 Baldur's Gate region is pretty terrible performance and I've even seen less performance with DLSS enabled in a few cases, the game just has some weird stuff going on that can bring a 4090 to its knees at 40-50fps 4k, even with DLSS.

Act 1 and 2 however seem mostly fine.

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Well nvidia has to do something to get more DLSS and other exclusive features in their games.

They are under threat of developers just supporting the OPEN AMD alternatives which more or less work on all GPU vendor cards.

I would like to see NVIDIA open up frame gen and dlss3 more so it was easier for everyone to use it even if it does req special hw.

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Quoting: MohandevirJust out of curiosity, what prevents Valve from upgrading Gamescope's integrated FSR with FSR2.2 or FSR3?

Requires extra data (vector/camera) which needs to be manually generated.

There is someone on patreon who is adding DLSS3 and FSR2 to games that previously didn't have such features. I can't be sure but I believe its handled via reshade, he even has frame gen working on games that didn't originally have support for it.

Point being, manual work is needed. You can't just toggle it on like FSR1 or similar methods which just use methods like TAA for upscaling.

These new AMD cards are NOT good upgrades for people using the 6700/6800 cards.
AMD has even made sure people understand these are for the 5000 series or below for upgrade. I see these as being almost like a 6700/6800 refresh, or a 1.5 upgrade in some sense since they are just barely faster and just more efficient cards.

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any DRM should only be runtime, never kernel/persistent policeman on someone's machine because that opens up massive security risks and also gobbles up performance.

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The EPIC API works fine from what I can see under Linux with apps that utilized it, BUT it would be very nice if EGS released their store app launcher for Linux and offered actual Linux branches for developers to use, and perhaps a inhouse baked proton like running, or just detect whatever the user dumps into a runner folder or something for the windows games.

I don't believe its hard to do considering several open-source projects have done these things already and often its work done by tiny teams on casual basis!

They should also bring community features including a modding support in their app.

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Lucky this is just a f2p game, nobody is technically loosing their license copy of the game but I do know some people like spending money on DLC and store items so that would suck loosing them.

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