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The "state of affairs" as per game requirements and hardware availability is ever changing though, and I was posting this because in addition to the usual [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey steam hardware survey], it just came to my attention [https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Mozilla's] (which put aside some slight way earlier bias in cutting off XP and Vista, on the other hand could be seen as a worst case scenario of systems all over the world) | The "state of affairs" as per game requirements and hardware availability is ever changing though, and I was posting this because in addition to the usual [https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey steam hardware survey], it just came to my attention [https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Mozilla's] (which put aside some slight way earlier bias in cutting off XP and Vista, on the other hand could be seen as a worst case scenario of systems all over the world) | ||
| − | Btw while I'm generally quick to recommend linux left and right, [https:// | + | Btw while I'm generally quick to recommend linux left and right, [https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/bjuoqq/blender_developers_find_old_linux_drivers_are/ the truth] is that if you are craving for the last drop of performance on <dx12 gpus there's no way you are gonna get it³. Not because I think Vulkan is a *physical necessity* like most other illiterate people, but wined3d still is incredibly unoptimized for the moment. Opengl and nine (if you can run it) are total golden though. |
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¹but I wonder how the always forgotten Unigine Sanctuary compares<br/> | ¹but I wonder how the always forgotten Unigine Sanctuary compares<br/> | ||
²though, in 2019 even as a person with very strong "nobody with the slightest hope left behind" attitude, I'm asking how far we are till dx10 or dx11 becomes an owed premise<br/> | ²though, in 2019 even as a person with very strong "nobody with the slightest hope left behind" attitude, I'm asking how far we are till dx10 or dx11 becomes an owed premise<br/> | ||
| − | ³let alone | + | ³let alone if you are very low on RAM (either since it's ''actually'' very little, or because it has to be eventually shared with the igp), where XP really is the [https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=42785#p411846 king]</small> |