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For three years there has been a bug report around 4K@120Hz being unavailable via HDMI 2.1 on the AMD Linux driver.

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[–] [email protected] 226 points 5 months ago (41 children)

This really bothers me. Closed standards locked behind a licensing fee may as well not be standards at all, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (36 children)

I don't understand why any hardware uses HDMI anymore anyway, what does it have that displayport doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

HDMi foundation is founded by companies who own the home theatre environement (mainly movie conpanies and television) who puts DRM on HDMI to make it harder to illegally copy content like movies, ao they will always want to be anti open source because thats the request of streaming services/movie businesses. Its why for example, mobile devices have widevine levels. those levels basically determine how "unlocked" the device is and services will refuse to offer full functionality to unlocked devices because of it, be it audio or video.

Members of VESA, who control the displaypprt standard are generally computer companies are mostly not in the business of media, so they value specs over drm on changes, which for example a use case is that displayport allows for daisychaining diaplays.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The DRM is so stupid - now in the era of streaming you can get literally anything webripped day1.

DRM is obsolete (and it never really wasn't tbh).

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

DRM is not to stop pirates, but to show investors and licence holders you are trying to stop pirates.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

its the attempt that matters more to investors than the pirates. its why a shit ton of games have denuvo, evem if the version of denuvo they utilized is cracked already or not. its not there for the end user, its there for the investors to show they are at least attempting to fight off piracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Denuvo is actually very effective relatively speaking. Several popular games that use it have never been cracked. They haven't made it impossible, just sufficiently difficult and tedious that no one wants to bother.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

some aren't cracked because theres like only one person actually doing it, and said person wont crack anime games because she hates anime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, I'm well aware. Those are the symptoms. I just explained the cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t DRM in games working though. Denuvo only being cracked by one person, to me it sounds like a win for the corporations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

it's working in the sense that i slows it down. However how denuvo works is that there are usually are generations of denuvo that get cracked, so once one gets cracked in a generation, theres a handful that will be cracked with it. if a company is using an older generation of denuvo, you may typically see day 1 cracks, which ultimately means the company paid denuvo for nothing, but the point is, denuvo wasn't meant to stop piracy first, it was meant to appease investors that require denuvo to be implemented.

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