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Some of the GL4.5 conformance tests are still failing, so they are holding off advertising support until they fix the bugs....

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I believe that's the plan. The GLSL parser can automatically inline the 64-bit emulation code when it detects that it needs to, and then the driver will...

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That's long been known and agreed. Intel has had people working on extending GBM to deal with those problems for a while now, and they were the ones that...

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What does Dying Light still need to run? OpenGL 4.5 core support is virtually complete at this point....

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The problem is that everyone things EGLStreams are a shitty standard. Which is precisely why precisely 0 other drivers have tried implementing it....

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It's better in that it's much smaller and more limited than what Flash could do, and therefore safer for your system. For example, it doesn't have an...

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The vast majority of users run Intel systems, and that's been true for a very long time....

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Unigine is the definition of a synthetic benchmark. It's not a microbenchmark, though, which appears to be what you're referring to....

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Synthetic benchmarks are a real thing and can be useful.

The key is knowing the context and how to interpret their results. Most people just...

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I used to remote emacs quite a bit on XWin back in college. It was pretty useful for programming before i had a local linux machine....

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The constant unapproved posts are a major problem.

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Someone said that, but it's not really true.

I mean, technically you can't advertise GL *anything* without paying money to pass the test...

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The whole point is to have the GPU hardware natively support encoded textures, though, which is why software decoders for such things generally don't...

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Who's ignoring GLVND?

Also, while NVidia did have a talk about their EGLStreams proposal back in 2014 it was immediately followed up with...

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Alien Isolation requires compute shaders (GL 4.3). Without those, the game will still run, but uses uninitialized values which causes crazy colors to...

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I'm pretty sure F25 is precisely why they suddenly decided to make a release now and freeze so quickly. I think it was one of the Red Hat guys who asked...

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I think it's fair to say DRI3 wouldn't exist without Wayland.

I doubt it made much of a difference for the rest, though....

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Star Citizen linux support is theoretical. Supposedly they had it running internally but the OpenGL support was too awful to release publicly.
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Feral didn't write any of the Windows code. They don't get a say in how the game was originally designed, they're just getting a cut of sales from porting...

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Intel has their own system, but it's private and not accessible to you and me. I don't know if AMD has something similar or not - i think not, though...