Quoting: TuxeeStill, it's free to play, spending money doesn't give you any benefits apart from speeding up the grind.

I would argue the premium vehicles do occasionally give you an edge over players on an equal BR. Not a massive edge, but an edge regardless, at least until Gaijin screws with game balance. And players moving onto new vehicles are objectively at a worse position than players who can pay their way through important component upgrades. You can argue that's just speeding up the grind, but when it's entirely possible that upgrading to a new vehicle might be a downgrade to your combat effectiveness for multiple games unless you pay up, I don't really find it particularly convincing.

And all this without mentioning the SL traps you can accidentally upgrade yourself into (yes, I played the French tanks and I had to go back to Italy to afford driving my tanks again), most likely intentionally pushing you into games with/against stronger vehicles to create psychological incentive to upgrade, lootbox mechanics and all the other meta-gameplay loops which prey on the players. Even by F2P metrics, WT has a pretty crappy monetization scheme and I wouldn't put a cent towards it.

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Quoting: CatKillerno one should give them money in exchange for their Linux support.

I would go one step further and say you shouldn't give them money regardless of the Linux support. The monetization and grind is downright predatory in the first place and I couldn't in good conscience recommend anybody to put money towards it. It's best played by recognizing the psychological trickery it's trying to pull and not giving any money regardless until the frustration gets to you. Then you take a break for half a year or more and put some more hours into it until the frustration causes you to bounce off again. Rinse and repeat until you find a better game to spend your time on.

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Yup, the problem seems Xorg specific. Works just fine here on Wayland from what I'm seeing, except for the fact that it doesn't launch from Steam and you must fire it up manually. Maybe you peeps just need to get with the times? :P

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Quoting: GuestSo in the meantime I managed to compile it (they could at least provide some build instructions....). I wanted to try it on one of my favorites that has the FS issue, Einstein 2.0 (https://github.com/lksj/einstein-puzzle). But I do get an error "unsupported EGL Platform"
(Or is this not supposed to work outside of steam?)

That's a problem with your graphics card: accelerated Xwayland doesn't work on Nvidia thanks to Nvidia not conforming to standard.

From the repository:

QuoteIt runs on Mesa+AMDGPU, and could be made to run on other Mesa/DRM drivers with minimal work. Can support NVIDIA if/when they support accelerated Xwayland.

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I imagine this should also help with games that don't quite understand how multi-monitor setups work. You can just cage them to a single-monitor compositor and force them to behave nicely.

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Quoting: KandarihuPerhaps. I'm just getting really rankled by all the hype that cloud gaming is getting, and like some others here, I want absolutely nothing to do with it. Last night, I read something about the United Nations having a plan for their Agenda 21 that by the year 2030, they'll have it that governments and major corporations will own everything. And the rest of us will be relegated to services or rentals. What does this mean for gaming? It means EVERYTHING will be cloud exclusive if they have their way. And the days of us having agency of our own hardware will be over. This is the kind of future that I dread, and every single positive article about cloud gaming getting bigger and better seems to be cheering on this agenda. It hurts so much to hear about it this way.

This isn't something the UN can pass and Agenda 21 is fundamentally a non-binding plan, not to mention I doubt it has anything to say about video games and cloud gaming, considering it was drafted in 1992. This is probably just a case of you getting fear-mongered by conspiracy theorists. The text is freely available, so you should probably start from there to verify any such claims: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: SamsaiPlot thickens. It crashed on Vulkan too, so I figured I'd throw my old R7 370 in and see how it fares. Seems crash free now, even when running it on the amdgpu driver instead of radeonsi. So now the worry shifts to whether or not the 580 is okay.

If your are willing to do an extra troubleshoot, run the game while reporting your temps (you can use MangoHud or simply a scripts that saves to a file the content of /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input). My 580 gets around 76°C while playing with my fans increasing their speed quite a bit.

I managed to get the issue reproduced by my friend on a similar RX480. We monitored the temps and they seemed manageable 60-ish celsius, but I think that might be faulty data. After my friend noticed his core frequencies began to fluctuate before the system hung, he cleaned his GPU and reapplied paste and that apparently fixed it for him. I did the same and my system stability seems to have also improved and my core frequencies are also more stable.

So, it seems like both of our GPUs overheated without reporting high temperatures, or being near the thermal/power boundary causes the core frequencies to fluctuate and that results in instability due to kernel or other bugs? I think the only advice I can give to someone suffering from similar problems is to clean up your GPU, increase fan speed and monitor core frequencies.

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Quoting: 14You were understandably confused. Using the pronoun they for a singular person is a new trend and not what anyone was taught in English.

Singular they dates back to Shakespeare, so as a concept it is not new. It is relatively poorly taught though and it might be in more active use these days than before.

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BTW, update to people who might be terrified reading about the AMD issues, I bought one of my friends running an RX480 a copy and they reported back a smooth experience and I haven't been able to crash the game on my R7 370 after even more testing, so I think the game works and the fault is with my RX580.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: SamsaiI don't think so, since the fans stay relatively quiet all the way until the GPU hangs and the fan speeds max out. I know that my first-gen Ryzen is a temperamental one, so my current working theory (that I'm desperately trying to disprove) is that my CPU is doing something that upsets the GPU driver. If that's the case then this will be an expensive fix.

hmmm, I find difficult that the CPU could be a factor (but who knows). Either way, remember that you can play the game using vulkan if you set "-force-vulkan" as game parameter. If with Vulkan your system stops crashing, that would probably put the full blame on Mesa.

Plot thickens. It crashed on Vulkan too, so I figured I'd throw my old R7 370 in and see how it fares. Seems crash free now, even when running it on the amdgpu driver instead of radeonsi. So now the worry shifts to whether or not the 580 is okay.

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