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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by alasdair_ on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:52PM (#34939316)
Games are the main reason for me. I want max performance on my high end gaming pc and I want all the things to just work, including 7.1 surround sound (and atmos later) and HDR and gsync and all my accessories and all the anticheat etc.

I know valve have done great stuff but is it good enough yet to run everything on a AAA game on 4k ultra with hdr, gsync and 144hz?

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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by goosedragons on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:33PM (#34939674)
HDR no (although it's progressing). 4K Ultra, gsync and 144Hz on a AAA game, yes. Anti-cheat is going to continue being a problem so long as Microsoft allows these kernel level things and devs keep doing it.
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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by alasdair_ on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:19PM (#34942128)
Looks like Valve are actively working on HDR support https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-working-on-hdr-for-linux-gami...
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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by ZiiS on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:30PM (#34939647)
Not yet at all anticheet just working but you may be surprised. Where Wine works it can even give higher framerates; rarly lower. Whilst I am sure some accessories are better in windows; an old gameport Sidewinder (ms hardware) works better in Linux.
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Re:My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account by katbyte on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:16PM (#34939534)
I left windows for ps4/5 and mac a decade ago but have been toying with the idea of a beefy proxmox server with pci passthrough for a nice windows gaming setup which going by LTT videos is more then capable enough to run AAA game. It’s still windows but at least it’s a vm and your hardware can be shared with a primary Linux desktop vm etc
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