Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new native Linux port

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: YoRHa-2BThis game has one of the most inefficient renderers I've seen in my life. It's deferred, and for its lighting pass it renders spheres with hundreds of polygons, which results in lots and lots of triangles that only cover one or two pixels. Goodbye performance.

What are you doing with games? Debugging them just for fun or professional?

Quoting: YoRHa-2BAnd it doesn't stop there. While the game itself uses D3D11, when starting the game, it actually initializes and renders one black frame using D3D9 (!). Just to instantly destroy the D3D9 device again and switch over to 11. For absolutely no goddamn reason. This is even more stupid than some Japanese games I had to deal with.

Sounds like some leftover demo lines copied from MSDN. ;)

Since i didn't see any smiley , emoji after your first sentence-quote i'm in an urge to say this:

He is the dev of DXVK.

Well the star is in the shape of chaos marines from warhammer and 8 pointed star there were so many warhammer licenced games not on linux it could be any of them.

Quoting: EikeWhat are you doing with games? Debugging them just for fun or professional?

Debugging them so that they run on DXVK. And in case of Frostpunk, that one one silly D3D9 frame was causing issues because the wined3d swap chain was interfering with the Vulkan swap chain created by DXVK, which required a workaround.

Quoting: RoosterAs far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

According to the compatibility chart, you should be able to play the original but not the Special Edition.

Could it be Kingdom Come Deliverance? I hope so.

Quoting: LeopardSince i didn't see any smiley , emoji after your first sentence-quote i'm in an urge to say this:

He is the dev of DXVK.

Thanks! I was asking because I didn't know! :)

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: RoosterAs far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

According to the compatibility chart, you should be able to play the original but not the Special Edition.

Both versions work in Wine, but I don't have any voice sounds there. I tried the Special Edition with Proton, still the same problem. Actually, the SE works even better then the original Skyrim. Better performance, better graphics, has controller support.

My guess is F1 2018.

Quoting: GuestWhy would that be the case? That's not a stopping in the least.
For all intents and purposes the stream-output fuctionality can be emulated easily and it's not really needed by Vulkan.

Metal doesn't even has geometrt or (proper) tessellation shader support, but that has never been a blocker ;)

I'm just guessing based on the game engine and how DXVK progresses, I don't know the actual reasons what Feral is facing and I don't have the technical knowledge to say anything useful regarding implementation details. I could be very wrong.
Would you mind creating a PR to emulate stream-output functionality for DXVK? ;)


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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: RoosterAs far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

According to the compatibility chart, you should be able to play the original but not the Special Edition.

Both versions work in Wine, but I don't have any voice sounds there. I tried the Special Edition with Proton, still the same problem. Actually, the SE works even better then the original Skyrim. Better performance, better graphics, has controller support.

In my case I have no voices on either version of Skyrim & exiting brings my system to a grinding halt. Looks good when it's working though, so there is hope.