Did anyone manage to make it run at all with the expansion? It now crashes on startup for me, after the logo videos.

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I think these 5000% means for that particular stage, but how much it affects actual games is the interesting question. Still, such huge improvement for anything is a big win for Vulkan drivers.

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Quoting: williamjcmWell, since the leak happened, I'm sure competition watchdogs will keep a very close eye on Microsoft for the years to come.

Except, where can we find competent competition watchdogs? Current application of competition law seems to be getting more and more toothless.

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What exactly is the difference between compositor latency settings in the current System Settings?

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I enjoyed CP2077 game itself. It has some flaws, but overall the story is pretty good. Looking forward to the expansion.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI originally was hyped for Cyberpunk. What I wanted was a darker single player story based experience. What they seem to put out was an open world Saints Row/GTA type game with bugs galore. Will this update give me what I wanted ?

That sounds like Deus Ex. I wish they made a sequel to Mankind Divided. I just finished it recently, and it's a very well written cyberpunk story.

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Quoting: poiuzAMD disagrees with you, in Feb 2015:
https://gamingbolt.com/the-big-interview-amds-robert-hallock-on-mantle-directx-12-ps4xbox-one-free-sync-and-more

I don't see any disagreement. AMD wanted their API to be used by MS - so what. They wanted it to be used by everyone else too.

And they are MS partner for consoles. Obviously if MS started pushing their NIH AMD won't be trying to stop them. It was MS idea, not AMD's.

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Quoting: ShmerlThat's exactly the point. Obviously AMD wanted to have one common API, not multiple NIHs. So why did MS and Apple have to rush making theirs? They could work with AMD and then Khronos on the common one.

If that was the case, they wouldn't have provided Microsoft with everyrhing on Mantle, but they did.

They provided everyone with everything. Their whole API was opened for anyone who wanted. The goal was to encourage collaboration, which indeed happened when enough people got together to make Vulkan from it. But not MS and Apple. They just exploited it to make their own NIHs becasue they could. It tells you everything there is to tell about their approach.

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Quoting: poiuzMantle is omitted since it's the starting point for all APIs.

That's exactly the point. Obviously AMD wanted to have one common API, not multiple NIHs. So why did MS and Apple have to rush making theirs? They could work with AMD and then Khronos on the common one.

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Quoting: poiuzAre you serious? My timeline?

Timeline starts with Mantle which presented such ideas before Apple and MS rushed to make NIH knock offs of them. And AMD from the beginning expressed the interest to make it a common API. That's why Mantle later was turned into Vulkan. Basically, collaboration on it could have started from the beginning, if Apple and MS weren't arrogant lock-in proponents who benefit from work of others either way.

See also: https://twitter.com/renderpipeline/status/581086347450007553

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