It would allow them to do HDMI FRL also, which is probably what you mean when you say HDMI 2.1. AMD cards also do HDMI FRL I thought. FRL is what allows things like 4k120Hz (higher bandwidth modes). The VRR that the Dock does is the VRR standardized with 2.1, which is why it works on TVs and devices that do not support freesync (see: LG TVs).
Anyway, the Dock doesn’t have a fast enough HDMI converter to do that. It’s not a licensing issue. Next gen Deck/Dock will probably do it.
Actually it works fine on Steam Deck. It uses VRR over DP to the dock, which then translates it to HDMI with VRR. The dock has proprietary firmware to do this.
Intel and Nvidia hardware with open source kernel drivers also do a similar trick where the HDMI part is in a firmware blob. Only AMD does not work with HDMI VRR.
Exactly. That’s why it’s a trash motherboard as soon as root access is gained. It can never again be trusted.
How do you trust that the flash was done properly if you did it from the compromised system? This would only work if you flashed it externally somehow without the system running.
Yes it is. It’s not in mainline wine, it’s been in kernel for a long time now.
It’s annoying all the articles are focusing on performance versus stock wine here when basically everyone uses Proton or a fork of it anyway, which has had fsync for years now that does similar performance uplift.
The story here should be that we’re getting fsync level performance with fewer bug and it can be upstreamed to wine. There is no relevant performance uplift for Proton users, but I guess performance gets clicks so that’s the story all the press are going with.
It’s not merged, but the benchmarks are against upstream wine. Proton has hacks (fsync) that have almost identical performance uplift but were not suited to upstreaming.
So basically this will improve “correctness” versus current Proton, not performance. Should fix some bugs and improve compatibility.
Versus stock wine, it’s a huge perf uplift though.
Even if you assume 8hr days that’s $63/hr, sizable drop from 100
Please keep posting the screenshots. I live in the EU and they haven’t brought this"feature" here.
Technically AMD also offers an open Vulkan driver (AMDVLK), it’s just dog shit, and an open compute driver (Rocm), its just also bad, and an open OpenGL driver (Radeonsi), which is solid.
Those three are all primarily developed by AMD engineers and are fully open. Nvidia has no such open equivalents.
Uhh nvidia has had native Linux drivers since the 1990’s…
They’re legally allowed to keep shelf stable milk unrefrigerated, and it’s totally normal here. Same for eggs. We don’t bleach our eggs though like some places.
Shelf stable milk can be kept at room temp (~20-25C) long term until opened. The supermarkets have shelves of it unrefrigerated.
Dairy can be kept warm. Pretty common for shelf stable milk. Not sour cream though.
I love that I can’t decide if the left or right side is worse
Nice to see Steam Input support, wish that was more common. It solves so many problems so well with a variety of controllers.
Yeah good luck with that. They get royalties for HDMI use, they make the TVs. Asking them to support DP is literally asking them to stop collecting royalties from all the device makers.
Remedy did the same thing with Alan Wake from Microsoft like 5 years after AW1 also. Seems they just like to own their back catalogue.
Ok… That’s too long. Weird decision.
Mostly that it doesn’t work on Steam Deck. Hits memory limits IIRC.