Quoting: dubigrasuAt the same time I don't remember the drivers stuck on performance mode while in desktop mode, sure the modes were alternating depending on desktop activity, but stuck on max power, no.

For me my GTX 1080 Ti is always in the p0 state (max clocks) until I switch to the console. There's a known issue for this in nVidia bug tracker as well as a public thread in nVidia forums. I am running my computer with two 4K G-Sync monitors, which seems to make the issue worse. Windows shares the same power management code, but the difference between Windows and Linux is that in Windows they have information if more draw calls are coming to the pipeline or not, which allows the graphics card to go to a lower power state earlier.

I agree that keeping the clocks high is great when you're gaming (but only if your game needs 100% of your GPU), but it's not great if your card runs hot 24/7 and never stops the fans because of the power saving doesn't work for a few users.

Do not get me wrong: I am and have been nVidia user for a long time (just threw away a broken GT 8800 card among with some other old hardware) and I will likely be using nVidia graphics cards in the future, too.

PS. Regarding to my first comment on nVidia Linux driver quality.. That came from an nVidia employee who I know. I have also worked in a few companies where the main reason not to release source code was a bad code quality (not because of bad workers but because of there was no time to polish the code).

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nVidia drivers are bad quality which is likely the main reason why they do not open up the code. I'm frustrated on their drivers as they force the card to run on maximum power for 45 seconds every time there's an opengl draw call. Basically it means that if you install Ubuntu and use default Gnome (which uses opengl X composite extension), your graphics card never goes into powersave state and consumes ~4x more power than it should. They have the same issue in Windows, but because of architectural differences it's not as bad in there.

I guess they do that because of nobody has bothered to implement proper power saving feature and because of not running the card in maximum power makes the cards to look bad in benchmarks. IMHO they really should fix the issue and allow cards to run on optimal clocks as laptops get more and more common. :)

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Shadow of Tomb Raider demo almost works, this version of proton fixes the sound issues for me, but Lara still has those grey spots in her skin... Game runs OK, 45FPS in the benchmark 4K@high using 1080 Ti.

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Great news, I'm really happy to see Feral working on all of these great titles!

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Not to mention X-Com 2 or Tomb Raider 2013 for Vulkan! I'm really waiting new from the latest Shadow of the Tomb Raider, tho..

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Well, I wouldn't buy it if it only ran in Proton. For free -- yeah, I can do that, but no Linux means no money from me unless it's part of some bundle with interesting Linux games in it.

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I've played demo for 10 minutes or so in Proton, seems to run just fine.

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I just wish that Steam didn't list Windows games inside my Linux library..

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I have no idea why people want to purchase Atari VCS -- I was assuming they had updated their hardware to use Ryzen based solution because of the delay, but no, they ship with 6 years old hardware...

I already own Raspberry PI 3 for emulation and I do have similar sized mini-PC with about the same performance (i5 6500T with Intel HD 530), but with 16 gigs of RAM and 384 gigs of storage. Owning the device I can say that there's not going to be too many interesting Steam games that you can play with Atari console -- especially with 4GB of RAM.

It has way too high price for being emulation device and way too low specs to use it for gaming console. For everything else I would just use my TV...

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Surviving Mars is something I've been thinking of getting.

^ That was the joke, I am so busy that I will never have a chance to play it!
If you are wondering how my joke relates to Linux, please read the article once again.

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