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   Chris Offner (chrisoffner3d@sigmoid.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:55:28 JST Chris Offner

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   • Kevin Karhan :verified:

   @kkarhan @vaartis Is that news to anyone? Valve has always invested much more into Linux gaming than Mac gaming.

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     Ed Maste (emaste@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:55:22 JST Ed Maste

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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

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     Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:55:23 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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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

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     イレイナ :BlobhajHugFullBody: (lulukaros@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:55:24 JST イレイナ :BlobhajHugFullBody:

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     @kkarhan @chrisoffner3d @vaartis expensive how?

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     Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:55:25 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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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...

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 01:57:49 JST feld

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     > 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.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 02:08:03 JST Sexy Moon

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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.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 03:33:46 JST feld

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     @Moon directx is the graphics rendering library tho, not a GPU driver. but yeah.