Post AcIxdCdpO6stwCeqwa by Lulukaros@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AacugFCUHzvN0x6EGe by vaartis@pl.kotobank.ch
       2023-10-10T12:13:56.995302Z
       
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       > Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It
       
 (DIR) Post #Aacv6LRJiNAptUTv16 by kkarhan@mstdn.social
       2023-10-10T12:13:27Z
       
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       @vaartis So #Valve basically admitted that #LinuxGaming is more important than #MacGaming, since #CS2 has been released for #Linux at the same date as #CSGO...
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxdAu3qmgIXyEmy8 by chrisoffner3d@sigmoid.social
       2023-10-10T12:40:30Z
       
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       @kkarhan @vaartis Is that news to anyone? Valve has always invested much more into Linux gaming than Mac gaming.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxdBhKta630nI8m0 by kkarhan@mstdn.social
       2023-10-10T12:44:24Z
       
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       @chrisoffner3d @vaartis Considering #Apple's walled garden and Microsoft's attempts re-monopolize #PC #gaming, #Linux is the way to go for #Valve, because going with #FreeBSD would've been more expensive to them - which is why only big console manfuacturers like #Nintendo and #Sony do it...
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxdCdpO6stwCeqwa by Lulukaros@mastodon.social
       2023-11-29T02:01:19Z
       
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       @kkarhan @chrisoffner3d @vaartis expensive how?
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxdDm1B91vRtUuLg by kkarhan@mstdn.social
       2023-11-29T02:26:12Z
       
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       @Lulukaros @chrisoffner3d @vaartis they'd have to basically invent the entire 3D stack and bring it up to speed or at least on-par with #Linux.Last time I checked #FreeBSD didn't even support #Vulkan...Both Nintendo and Sony have their own proprietary frameworks and pipelines to do 3D and 2D and not even support like 100% of OpenGL ES 3.1 which is the basis of Vulkan 1.0
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxdETyXiBxeE40rg by emaste@mastodon.social
       2023-11-29T04:52:35Z
       
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       @kkarhan @Lulukaros @chrisoffner3d @vaartis see e.g. https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/171982/en-us/,  Vulkan support added to the FreeBSD driver a few years ago
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIxqWWykaCVO9o2wi by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-11-29T16:57:37.544664Z
       
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       @kkarhan @chrisoffner3d @vaartis > which is why only big console manfuacturers like #Nintendo and #Sony do it...videogame consoles don't use GPU drivers. GPU drivers are an artifact of a general purpose OS and have a severe performance penalty. With videogame consoles they get the performance they do by writing directly to the GPU memory. This simplifies things a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcIyk8AsUhGO45z5CS by Moon@shitposter.club
       2023-11-29T17:08:01.916811Z
       
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       @feld @kkarhan @vaartis @chrisoffner3d xbone still use directx, I don't think it's a hard requirement but I think you only get an exception if you're blessed.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcJ6PYbznx4vbxMwlM by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-11-29T18:33:33.378466Z
       
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       @Moon directx is the graphics rendering library tho, not a GPU driver. but yeah.