My monitor thinks my GeForce is outputting FreeSync!

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OSD information display when connected to my PS4 Pro:



The same monitor, connected to a 1080Ti with driver version 396.54:...

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CryEngine is becoming decreasingly relevant. They always had a hard time selling to third parties and that has only become more true over time.
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One word: Adoption.

Nothing would warm my heart more than Direct3D falling into obscurity. And Khronos has a shot at it, for once.
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They could have just as easily given us nothing and left us with the same compromising situation we're in with WiFi hardware support, except in an even...

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Wait, I thought DRM leasing was still nowhere near actually implemented? Did I miss something?

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A supersampling ratio of 2.0 with the vanilla Vive will challenge even the mighty 1080Ti in some games already. This Vive Pro will already be getting...

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It works well only in one specific, though common, use case -- a desktop system that concerns itself only with traditional displays dedicated to the desktop...

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Technology marches on! It's probably been a good five years since I ran a 32bit OS on anything.

As long as I have grub-pc-bin with the 32bit...

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Promising. Likely this covers a lot of the internal framework for the more important (at least for VR) VK_KHR_external_semaphore_fd.

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What they do understand is the DMCA. Using equipment that strips HDCP is a federal felony. Possession might be a felony too but I'd have to check....

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Oh definitely. But more than that, There are things in D3D11 that are obscenely difficult to do in OGL and in some cases basically impossible. Wine has...

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It's kinda crazy to me that Ubu 16.04 ranked so high. It's something I'd think of as "old". Maybe that works to its advantage.

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You know... on Skylake and later, probably, but Ivybridge is definitely half-done. I never looked that closely because the only machine where it matters...

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ANV is woefully incomplete, and doesn't make any kind of claim of being anywhere near conformance. Mesa themselves are recommending against using Vulkan...

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Errrr.....

Actually, the VR compositor will interface with the HMD this way, and applications interact with the compositor which (among other...