From what I've understood, the latest Proton version uses this to sandbox the Proton prefix, right? The reason I'm asking is that I've noticed the the sandboxing seems a bit extreme and I can't find a way to edit it. On my system, anything run with Proton 5.13-1 is kept away from accessing mount points that aren't registered as Steam Library locations, making it somewhat difficult to run productivity software when one's files aren't located in $HOME - even symlinks seem to be cut off.
Long story short: Does anyone know how to edit what's made available in these sandboxes?

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Quoting: illwieckz

Quoting: ShmerlAlso, what's that "direct storage" thing? How does GPU supposed to support it?

At some point in the past they even integrated a 1Tb SSD in their GPU to get access to larger storage without being slowed down by the CPU and other components:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3099964/amds-new-ssg-technology-adds-an-ssd-to-its-gpu.html

I guess that may be a variant of this that would still uses computer's SSD (so they don't have to ship it themselves, to reduce price) but in a way performance approach this. There was huge improvements in PCIe and specific AMD technologies for interconnecting things last years.

I know little of this stuff in general, but according to Phoronix, it's built on the PCIe resizable BAR support that seems to have been in the kernel since 2013 and will be supported on Linux with these cards.

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I'm actually perfectly happy with the performance of my current GTX 1080 Ti, but I'll probably upgrade to an RX 6800 TX anyway once it comes out. It's just getting really tiresome to have to keep worrying about the NVIDIA driver during updates, having things like Wayland be unsupported, "paying" for features that aren't supported by their Linux driver, dealing with weird glitches and even hard lock-ups because everything is some NVIDIA proprietary library (NVENC/NVDEC especially) and worst of all, not having re-projection on my Valve Index because the company I paid for my GPU considers me a second-class citizen.

I've had enough and what AMD just presented is just the kick I needed to get back to AMD for the first time since my ATI Rage 128 :P

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I hope this means that the VR edition might come to Linux as well. The current Windows version might work through Proton (I don't know, there are no reports on ProtonDB yet) but it would be very nice to have it officially supported and there's also a definite lack of native VR titles at the moment.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: Nibelheim3080 + Ryzen 5900X in on month, let's go !

I've decided it's upgrade time for me as well. Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master came in the post today so hopefully the 5950X won't sell out completely next month. This should be a nice upgrade from my i7-3930K! ...has it really been 9 years?!

I don't think it will i think there is more danger of the 5600 selling out to be honest just like the 3100 and 3300 did AMD biggest market was and always has been and I have to use the term but "entry" level gaming cpus. Plus it depends Asus pulled a 180 first they said no new bios on B450 boards then two days later backtracked and said we will support the b450 on 5000 series boards via bios update as soon as AMD release the firmware. So for me its more interesting to see how many systems brick trying to get the bios update

Hopefully I'm safe with the Gigabyte board I got as they issued their BIOS update "for AMD Ryzen 5000 processors support" a month ago :) Not saying it won't brick, just that I think it's unlikely.

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Quoting: Nibelheim3080 + Ryzen 5900X in on month, let's go !

I've decided it's upgrade time for me as well. Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master came in the post today so hopefully the 5950X won't sell out completely next month. This should be a nice upgrade from my i7-3930K! ...has it really been 9 years?!

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: GuestThat "simple BIOS upgrade" is going to be not so simple for newcomers to AMD unless the motherboards allow for a BIOS upgrade without CPU.

I think Asrock motherboards do. See also: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100

AMD offers special processor loan kit for some of such cases when motherboard doesn't have USB update feature.

The Gigabyte ones I've been checking out (Aorus X570 Pro/Ultra/Master/Extreme) also come with that feature as does the ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII.

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And for those not in the loop (like myself), "Zombie Panic! Source" is:

Quoting: the game's Steam pagea cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter

Hopefully saved you a click :)

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Not sure how much new information I'll be adding here, but I received my Valve Index 2 days ago, so here's my experience so far.

Day 1
The first day was almost useless. The setup process was painless using SteamVR beta (following the suggestions here), but SteamVR Home would behave weirdly, wouldn't let me launch anything other that Beat Saber and had some stuttering while looking around. Beat Saber itself was absolutely flawless though, so I wasn't too dismayed. SteamVR itself would also often end up in a state where I had to physically reconnect the headset for it to work again. Not the best start.

Day 2
I figured I'd try the stable branch of SteamVR and also disable SteamVR Home since I didn't really see the point when I had to launch from the desktop Steam client anyway. Well, well, well, that was the missing piece! Suddenly I could access a Steam Overlay by pressing the Home button on the controller, actually change settings and launch games from inside VR! So this is how it's supposed to work! Now I could try out AirCar, The Lab (what a lovely robot doggo) and even watch a bit of Predator 3D in Whirligig!

Day 3
So I'm now at a place where things are mostly working. I'm still figuring out which games require which version of Proton (4.9 seems to be a safer bet than latest version 5) and SteamVR gets into a funky state when a game fails to launch (still haven't figured out to get Fushimi Inari VR from itch.io to launch in SteamVR), so it still feels a bit like a public beta, but it generally works well enough :)

I'm also happy to say that performance has been fine (at 90hz) on my almost decade old Intel i7-3930K and two generations old NVIDIA 1080 Ti (ASUS ROG Strix version); there's a bit of reprojection jutter every once in a while, but not enough to make me nauseous or enough to even notice in Beat Saber.

I'd still like the Proton fiddling to be easier and I wish it was easier to see if I need to use the Valve Index controllers or a normal controller in a game without having to go to the store page, but in general things are working better than I thought they would and the fact that Proton can run so much in VR is frankly amazing to me.

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Quoting: CyrilNot a single game DRM-Free even 10 of them are available at least on GOG...

I don't know the numbers, but I'd be very surprised if all of them require SteamWorks to run - my guess is that most of them are in fact DRM-free.

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