Okay, but the people playing on 5090s aren’t interested in barely getting 60 fps.

There’s no amount of hardware that shitty software can’t piss down the drain.

All those textures that won’t fit in the VRAM of Nvidia cards have to go somewhere, I guess.

“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.”

- Richard M. Stallman

Note that this isn’t vkd3d-proton, the one people are using for gaming.

Your distro can also decide what version to be on for each package. Slackware regularly rolls back a broken package until upstream fixes it.

Microsoft is moving away from allowing anything to run with those low level permissions after that CrowdStrike incident where rogue security software bricked millions of Windows PCs, so that might take out kernel anticheat as collateral damage.

I wouldn’t say I was friends with Windows. It’s more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.

I mean, you wouldn’t actually want to eat what you saw in the ad. Meat painted with wood varnish to make it shiny, cardboard spacers between layers of a burger to make it stand up more, white paint in the thick shakes, etc.

Why do payment processors have to be concerned with age ratings at all?

FYI, there’s a modern Descent-like game called Overload.

It has VR support.

Fun fact: Overload supports VR.

It didn’t make me motion sick, so I’m confident nothing ever will.

The problem it solves might not be a problem for anybody but Google. They might be trying to build their own OS to put on future devices.

Vulkan was the successor to AMD’s Mantle API from 2013, though. Metal wasn’t first.

They do seem to alternate between making MacOS graphics worse and wondering why nobody’s making games for MacOS.

Management seem to think that desktop Mac has the same market share that iPhone does and keep wondering why throwing their weight around isn’t working.

Not an expert, but I’ll give it a shot. That way someone will speak up to correct me. 🐸

With an AMD GPU on Linux, you’ve got your kernel amdgpu driver which talks to the hardware, loads firmware, etc.

Sitting on top of that is Mesa, which provides an opengl and vulkan driver. Your application talks to the opengl driver which talks to the kernel driver which talks to the hardware.

Windows has it’s own graphics stack, which has video card drivers and DirectX drivers.

Metal is Apple’s proprietary Vulkan knock-off, which seems to exist to force game devs to write games that only run on MacOS. This hasn’t really worked.

Magma seems to be about inserting a layer between the kernel driver and Mesa, so you can use Mesa OpenGL drivers on top of Magma on Windows kernel drivers? That’s not really something most people are looking to do.

The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

WoW64 is a Windows subsystem for running 32-bit stuff on 64-bit Windows. You’re talking about Wine’s implementation of WoW64 - there’s the old one which needs 32-bit Linux libraries and the new one which doesn’t.

Also, if you want people to solve your issue instead of just guessing, we’re gonna need to see some logs.

port forwarding/firewall issues that most people don’t know how to deal with

This sort of thing makes me want to tear my hair out when I hear “Why bother rolling out IPv6 when IPv4 just WORKS!?”

NAT, port forwarding and the problems they cause are seen as expected, just the way the internet works instead of the dirty hacks they actually are. Most people aren’t old enough to remember the time when everything connected to the internet had a routable IPv4 address.

Personally, I’m on an electricity plan that gives me free usage at midday when solar is flooding the grid, so it’s useful for me to be able to charge as fast as possible in that window.

Faster charging is useful for more than just finishing before your next drive.

Nah, there was a time when you’d get a new card every two years and it’d be twice as fast for the same price.

Nowadays the new cards are 10% faster for 15% more money.

I bought a new card last year after running a Vega 64 for ages and I honestly think it might last me ten years because things are only getting worse.