I think this is a case, where there’s an engine that was developed for graphics cards, that epic thought were common when they created UE5. They expected that RT performance would not only increase in the highest pricing tier, but also in mid-range (as in $500 pricing range) to a degree, where all the lumen stuff would be trivial. But steam survey reveals that most people use X060, X050 and then some X070 class cards, where RT performance isn’t that great. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

So IMO there are several issues:

• There are obviously optimization issues with UE5, I’m not going to claim otherwise.
• Nvidia catering to the AI crowd, which is obviously more lucrative for them that improving RT performance for mid- and low-range cards.
• Epic being bad at forecasting the future state of graphics performance.
• Epic trying to offload workload from development to the end user (e.g. shifting from pre-baked lighting to realtime lighting).

The end result stays the same, we now play games that run so bad on current hardware, that everything now needs to be AI-upscaled with framegen and has this weird soft look that will look super dated at some point because RT isn’t there yet.

I guess only in a country that is so far leaning on the right thinks that liberals are “on the left”.

It’s easy to say that Valve should make a stand, but wouldn’t be able to sell games anymore.

I’ve recently learned that, if you connect your Battlenet launcher to your Xbox account, you can in fact play Diablo IV, Call of Duty and whatnot with your gamepass subscription. That works even on Linux.

It’s not the same thing. The ROG Ally X is an AMD Z1 Extreme and the Xbox Ally X is an AMD Z2 Extreme. It’s not clear yet how well the Z2 Extreme performs in comparison to the Z1 Extreme.

The Phawx did some testing with the Legion Go 2 and their Z2 (non-extreme) performs worse than the ROG Ally X. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdOkbJ9Npo&pp=ygUVTGVnaW9uIEdvIDIgdGhlIHBoYXd4

My cautious expectation is that it will perform marginally better than the ROG Ally X, maybe be 10-15%, though I’m not touching anything Microsoft at this time in history.

I’m confused. The Xbox Ally X costs pretty much the same as the normal ROG Ally X. Don’t people in the US realize that prices in the EU usually include tax?

because Proton made devs forgo Linux native versions.

To be fair, a lot of the “native” linux version run worse than the proton version does. Just look at Witcher 2.