Thanks Adamhm, good-man!

Is it possible to play TW3 on Linux some how?

It'll be possible to play TW3 on Linux using Wine sooner or later - it's already kinda working but there are still some graphical issues. Wine's Direct3D 11 support has been improving a lot lately though so it hopefully won't be that much longer :)

Nvidia's gone retarded with this online nonsense. The drivers that come with the card don't work properly unless you're online. So if you buy a new graphics card you need to download working drivers.

I can't edit topic but here is an addition of yet another hostile Corporation:

Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h08z5/google_is_currently_trying_to_patent_video/

Love this.


If you want to play games, you'll probably want to be on the internet. And if you want to be on the internet, understand that you will be watched.

Another plus of not having upgraded one's PC in ages and playing mostly on console, lol. Not saying that consoles don't spy but the amount of personal information most people have on there is microscopic compared to what one usually gathers on a PC.

Except on the PC you have a lot more control (assuming at least some technical proficiency.)
Nope. I mean ... it will be somewhat competitive against a GTX 1080 — a card that's well over a year old. AMD doesn't exist in top tier space anymore. Hasn't for a while.

I've zero loyalty to any manufacturer and simply buy the best tech available. In the past that included roughly equal numbers of Nvidia and AMD/ATI stuff. Lately it's all Nvidia simply because AMD failed to keep up.

Really saddening to see this as a guy who will be forced to buy a GTX 1050 later this week because AMD can't get their pricing straight. Does anyone know what AMD's answer is to the said GTX 1050 is so I can at least check fully before going green?

Funny thing is I knew about this for a while, but never really cared. hmm but it's annoying that almost all these big companies do this now. https://youtu.be/smvjynoF9uA?t=36s

TELEMETRY!

Probably RX 560, if you are not talking about 1050 Ti.

Edit:
Correcting duplicate words.

Overall, I feel (and this is directed at no person in particular) that the amount of naivete displayed when it comes to Company A vs. Company B is staggering. Not only do people tend to align themselves with a camp based on the preference for a given company (this in itself incredibly weird) but they also appear to think that the companies are somehow fundamentally different. Logical fallacies abound.

Company A did something sneaky and underhanded.
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"OMG, this is why I choose Company B!"
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Absolutely ignoring the fact that Company B has either already done something similar or worse in the past, or would do it given half a chance.

All aspects of choice, when selecting between two GPU or CPU manufacturers are illusory. One single exception is performance regardless of how exactly it was achieved. So when choosing a device, get two unmarked ones and do a blind test. The one that performs better is the one you want. The corporation that created it is completely and utterly irrelevant, because so far as you are concerned there is no actual difference between them.

Both have good and intelligent people working for them. Both have some shitty people working for them. Both exist to make money. Both charge you as much as their research had shown you are willing to pay, etc.

Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphising a corporation and attributing human qualities to it.

True, true. Same thing with Microsoft versus Apple, Steam versus Origin. At the end of the day it's just human nature, though. When you learn a nasty thing about one party another suddenly appears better and you usually don't ask yourself right away if that same nasty fact applies to that other party as well.

Sigh, I'll have to check for its price locally, but something tells me I'll be disappointed.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but THAT is doubtful. A console holds all of your information that is completely out of your hands. On a PC, I can literally encrypt or obfuscate a large majority of what I do. On a console, all of your information is saved on an account owned completely by someone else. If they don't want you to have that console, you won't have it. They would have a very hard time with trying to shut out a PC.