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It's necessary if they want to support things like old games that have been abandoned by the original developers. I think getting all the way to 4.5 is...

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Deep Color is just what NVidia calls HDR support, which could provide various formats like FP16 RGBA. As opposed to existing support like True Color for...

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It is. I think the change here that enabled 3.3 was only the geometry shaders, but they went ahead and did tessellation as well because it was right there...

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It tends to fall into 2 camps:

1. Windows games that don't even support linux. These games are obviously targeting the AMD and Nvidia windows...

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Certain drivers in Mesa had this enabled by default for a while, because the companies behind them paid money to license the patent for their hardware....

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I don't think AMD is interested in doing anything on r600 anymore, but the good news is that the compat profile support seems to be pretty simple to support...

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There were certainly a few issues to iron out, but most of these updates are merely adding new extensions, updating documentation, fixes to run on new...

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I just did, and again it's because older versions of Xorg ignored the upper 32 bits. If it was being ignored, then it couldn't have been causing crashes....

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Vulkan can't do jack about that if the game is running it's physics simulation on 1 thread and that ends up being the bottleneck....

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Plus there's the fact that he got into a trollfest against the DXVK developer in another message thread, with like 30 messages of them sniping back and...

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Oh come on, you know what he meant. DXVK could not have gone through the rapid iterations that it has by sending everything through that process....

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DOTA 2 is something of a special case when it comes to Vulkan. It's essentially a DX9 title that's been ported to everything else, and for that reason...

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Considering it's faster than the corresponding NVidia card, I'm not exactly sure what you were expecting. Small gains here are actually good news, because...

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Do you guys actually trust game footage in a trailer? Seems kind of insane to me - if i want to see how the game plays, I just go to youtube or twitch...

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I think this was the right decision. Reading through his explanation, it's clear that he was becoming frustrated by having to justify saying no as maintainer,...

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It's impossible to map cleanly. It could be emulated, of course, but they made a decision from the start to avoid doing that kind of thing because it...

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Not according to the developer: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...9f336d786d7f8d...

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Except moltenvk is constrained. Most of vulkan is available in it, but not all because they can't support all of it over Metal on macs....

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That's true of pretty much every result in his tests - they were almost all over 60fps.

Portal was very clearly GPU bound, but obviously...

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I mean, I saw the article title and knew immediately exactly what kind of thread this was going to be, and so did you....