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Latest Comments by Cybolic
Wine 6.0 comes closer with a second Release Candidate
12 December 2020 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

At this rate, doesn't Wine actually have better general Windows compatibilities now than Win7/8 did when they came out?

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 December 2020 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: scaine[...]As for Cyberpunk - it's a no from me. CDPR is just not a company I'm interested in supporting.
I'm in the same boat, but a friend of mine gave me the game as a gift yesterday so now I'm thinking I may as well give it a go to get the Linux numbers up if nothing else.

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti arrives December 2, hits RTX 2080 SUPER level performance
5 December 2020 at 11:28 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: slaapliedjeI have been using nvidia for years, and it has pretty much been 'just works'.

I remember Nvidia breaking more than once due to kernel updates and I remember Nvidia messing up my install to the point of frustration and wiping out the whole OS to reinstall. Not upstreaming their driver has consequences. Ditching the blob felt very good and I'm not interested in going back to that horror :)
See, I have had the exact opposite experience. The Radeon laptop that I have, it worked mistly with the fglrx driver, but would break all the time as it wouldn't work either with a newer kernel, or xorg. Then there was a point in time where it fit in that tiny slit of not being supported by the open source driver OR fglrx, and I basically had to switch to Windows...
My experience has been that:
  • My ATI Rage 128 took forever to get support but eventually worked (this was back in 2000/2001, so not much point in comparing further)

  • My Radeon (some mid-2000s laptop model, sorry can't remember more) worked wonderfully in Linux but had shoddy 3D performance (it was fine, but not great - laptop though), great experience otherwise, solid hardware and fantastic TV output (yes, it was that long ago)

  • my GeForce 680, 980 and 1080 Ti all worked well in games, but the 980 and 1080 Ti both had weird things happening: lots of kernel incompatibilities, system freezes were common (better now, but still happen, especially with VT switching, CUDA, NVdec or VDPAU - basically anything that's supposed to give NVIDIA an advantage) and OpenGL texture corruption and/or texture sync (don't ask, I'm still not sure what it it precisely, but any desktop compositor will go out of sync with actual framebuffers eventually and require a restart - still happens with compton, picom, Mutter and KWin).

Of course, my main gripe with NVIDIA is still the missing VR reprojection on Linux, but now you have a bit of background on how well things have been working in general as well.

Honestly I think the driver installation situation is about equal for NVIDIA and AMD (though the built-in AMD driver gives a slight win there for general usage). For gaming I think the issue for AMD is distribution support for the driver options and for NVIDIA, well, it's NVIDIA :P

Total War: WARHAMMER II – The Twisted & The Twilight announced for December
5 December 2020 at 11:02 am UTC

Quoting: DanglingPointerStill not released for Linux so although we're passed the release date, we still can't play it yet. It isn't a same day release.
Quoting: LiamDaweArriving for Windows on December 3, Feral Interactive have confirmed that it will arrive on Linux (and macOS) "shortly" after Windows. This could be anything from a day to a few weeks, hopefully not long though.

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti arrives December 2, hits RTX 2080 SUPER level performance
4 December 2020 at 2:49 pm UTC

Quoting: x_wing[...]
I really fail to understand why so many Nvidia users says that AMD driver support is inferior when they are actually providing the type of solution as Nvidia and more.

Based purely on anecdotal observation, I suspect it's because there's been many HOWTO guides for NVIDIA drivers written by "mainstream" news sites and its often mentioned in Youtube videos, whereas I have yet to see anyone mention how to set things up with AMD.

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti arrives December 2, hits RTX 2080 SUPER level performance
2 December 2020 at 1:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: poisond[...] I have no idea how you come to the conclusion that NVidia performs worse for DXVK titles when all evidence points to the opposite.

I don't own any DX12 titles yet, but maybe you have some benchmarks to support your claims? [...]
I can't link to benchmarks, but I can point you at user YoRHa-2B - who actually works on DXVK - and their comments regarding NVIDIA, such as:
"On Nvidia though? Complete dogshit. Horizon Zero Dawn runs significantly slower on a 1080 Ti than it does on my RX 480 (...)"
and
"(vkd3d) has some cursed workarounds for Nvidia driver/hardware limitations to improve stability"
I'll let you look around for yourself for a bigger picture, but the impression I get as well, is that NVIDIA's drivers have issues with DXVK that don't exist with AMD.

Quoting: poisondYou can also consult https://www.protondb.com/stats by GPU (spoiler, NVidia does better)
By 6% for Platinum ratings and 1% for Silver and Bronze. With the disparity between the amount of AMD and NVIDIA user, that's pretty much within noise ratio.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled flame-war :P

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti arrives December 2, hits RTX 2080 SUPER level performance
1 December 2020 at 5:19 pm UTC

Quoting: yokem55
Quoting: CybolicNVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?
From what I understand, they have the vulkan compute extensions for it, but not the low-latency, high priority driver path to make it actually usable.

That's my understanding as well. Since I'm currently using a 1080 Ti and pretty happy with the general performance (though not the quirks), the only reason for me to upgrade is to fix the re-projection stutter I get in VR. If NVIDIA still hasn't "fixed" that under Linux though, there's not much point in a new card, no matter how good the bang-for-the-buck is - for me anyway.

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti arrives December 2, hits RTX 2080 SUPER level performance
1 December 2020 at 3:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

NVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?

Total War: WARHAMMER II – The Twisted & The Twilight announced for December
22 November 2020 at 8:37 am UTC Likes: 1

I really don't get why it's been seeped in 80s, but can't say that I don't enjoy it :P

AMD reveals Zen 3 and the Ryzen 5000 series - out November 5
11 November 2020 at 1:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just checking in to say that the 5950X works great on the Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master with the latest BIOS (version F31e), even with kernel 5.4.75 (I'm using linux-lts on Arch). I didn't have any issues flashing the motherboard using QFlash (flash without a CPU installed) and there even seems to be some support for fan control, something I was really missing on my old MSI board.