S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition is out now, needs a workaround on Linux
GSC Game World have released the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition now which includes S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition.
If you own the originals, you should receive the new editions for free. The Enhanced Editions also include the originals.
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Each game comes with an assortment of upgrades including:
- Atmospheric visual enhancements including God Rays, Dynamic Screen Space Reflections, and Advanced Global Illumination effects.
- Redesigned water shaders, upgraded skyboxes, and wetness effects.
- Improved visuals with upscaled textures featuring more detailed NPCs and environment.
- Upgraded weapon Field of View and models.
- Multiple bugfixes and quality of life tweaks.
- Full gamepad support.
This also makes the series a much better fit on the Steam Deck too. Plus there's also Steam Workshop support and Cloud Saves as well.
The only one I actually own is S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat, so that's what I picked for some testing today, along with the latest Proton 10 Beta. Early reports from players on Steam have pushed all three Enhanced Editions rapidly into "Mostly Negative". Many noting it's a "blurry mess", so I wanted to see what's going on.
On Desktop Linux, the game will not run out of the box, and ends up giving a black screen with this error:
You can get around that by spoofing a Steam Deck, using this launch option:
SteamDeck=1 %command%
On Steam Deck however, the game does work out of the box.
Once getting into S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition and fiddling with some settings here's some unfiltered shots of it on Max settings at 2560x1440. Running on Kubuntu 25.04, AMD Ryzen 5800X, Radeon RX 6800 XT on Mesa 25.0.3:
To me, the game doesn't look particularly blurry, certainly not to the level the Steam user reviews are suggesting. There's some slight blurry bits the further you are away but the picture is overall quite clear. And on Max settings, it seems to run well enough on Desktop Linux. Even with the enhancements though, I would have expected performance to be a fair bit higher than it is.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
You can also find comments for this article on social media: "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist."
Obviously they weren't coming for the socialists and trade unionists because they themselves were socialists. They were coming for them because they were fiercely opposed to them. Everyone at the time knew perfectly well that the Communists and Socialists hated the Nazis and vice versa; they were always having big street battles before the Nazis got into power.
And, state elites that control everything function differently from private elites that own everything. It's like saying feudalism was the same as capitalism, just that in feudalism it was aristocratic elites that owned everything while in capitalism it's private elites that own everything--they work different, the difference in what kind of elite is screwing everything up makes big changes in how they screw everything up.
Caldathras 14 hours ago
Revisionism? I was taught this in high school in social/political studies in the mid 1980s. I would be more inclined to believe that your view represents the revisionism. I even remember the teacher putting up a spectrum of Socialism showing Fascism at one end and Communism at the other. Presumably, social democracy was somewhere in the middle.
I should point out that I was talking about Fascism not Nazism. IMO, Nazism was a perversion of Fascism by a group of madmen. Not that this makes Fascism any better an option. That could, I suppose, also be said about Communism as well. In that case, the utopian wet-dream of Marxism, when implemented, became the reality of Communism which was later twisted by the horror of Stalinism.
and Nazi ideology was extremely anti-socialist
Obviously they weren't coming for the socialists and trade unionists because they themselves were socialists.It is kind of naive to think that it is not possible for socialists to hate other types of socialists. Quoting the (admittedly profound) poem of a former Nazi supporter is hardly proof that the Nazis were not socialist.
Correct me if I'm wrong (FYI, I'm not) but isn't the proper name of the Nazi Party actually the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Wouldn't that contradict your assertion in and of itself?
All I was trying to point out that there are different kinds of socialism, just as there are different kinds of democracy, different kinds of feudalism, and different kinds of totalitarianism. On a very simplistic level, the primary difference between Fascism and Communism is the ownership of the resources and assets. Of course, one can find other differences if one chooses to dig further into the details.
I am not trying to engage in an argument here. I suspect you are younger than I. Your views are formed by the idealogies that influenced your education, as are mine. As, I suspect, would be the views of my father and grandfather, both of whom lived through WW2, the former as a child and the latter actively supporting the resistance to German occupation.
Caldathras 14 hours ago
the difference in what kind of elite is screwing everything up makes big changes in how they screw everything up.In this we can agree.
Last edited by Caldathras on 24 May 2025 at 6:35 pm UTC
tuubi 12 hours ago
You might want to check a dictionary for a definition of Socialism. A far-right ideology like Fascism simply cannot be it. Maybe you're simply mixing up your terminology?
At the risk of blatant oversimplification: If workers don't own the means of production, it's not Socialism. If the government doesn't protect and empower the working class (and seek to minimise poverty and inequality), it's not even Social Democracy. And Socialism, in any of its forms, is simply not compatible with a capitalist elite.
Correct me if I'm wrong (FYI, I'm not) but isn't the proper name of the Nazi Party actually the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Wouldn't that contradict your assertion in and of itself?This talking point is a good example of the far-right revisionism Purple Library Guy mentioned. Policy and actions are what determine a party's position on the ideological spectrum, not the name.
Anyone who didn't learn their history of Nazi Germany from trashy Youtube videos or podcasts knows why the party had "socialist" in the name when it obviously didn't adhere to the ideology, and how Hitler had his own spin on the meaning of Socialism. He actually claimed that Marxists "stole and perverted" the word and he was taking it back or some such nonsense. Yet this is one of the most common arguments that Fascists and others on the far-right spout to try to discredit those on the left.
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