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Latest Comments by mrdeathjr
Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
10 Jun 2025 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-goes-all-in-with-wayland-dropping-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/?comment_id=279701

In my case stay waiting for next cycle on xubuntu but for 28.04 wayland must be stay in better form (before and this year seems show more work)

On wine in my case need resolve various issues related with input

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Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.6.2 released
10 Jun 2025 at 5:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

This dxvk version work ok in my case using mesa 25.2-dev for now

https://i.imgur.com/cvzsiJM.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/duMGWOl.png [External Link]

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XWVM is a modern Unity engine to play STAR WARS - X-Wing, first Alpha out now
3 Jun 2025 at 11:37 am UTC

In my case run with mesa 25.2-dev, renderer is vulkan

https://i.imgur.com/shQ7R8j.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/sWyXSKz.png [External Link]

and use x-wing collector series 98 fron gog

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Wine 10.9 brings EGL support for all graphics drivers and updated vkd3d
2 Jun 2025 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 4

​This wine version in my case using d3d7 games still remain unplayable, very low performance, i have some hopes because in this version them add this:

EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.

but in practice:

https://i.imgur.com/NWc51wG.png [External Link]

In other things related with virtual desktop:

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58157 [External Link]

problem still remain, in my case stay working using wine 10.0 compiled (./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64 --prefix=/opt/wine10**) by myself (new wow64)

**recent wine is compiled using this: ./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64

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Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update
26 May 2025 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 5

In my case stay work ok with mesa 25.2-dev (with japanese voices option in starship if you have japanese starfox rom)

https://i.imgur.com/QV7k0tE.png [External Link]

also ship of harkinian work ok too

https://i.imgur.com/XB7ew7c.png [External Link]

both use opengl renderer on linux, in my case stay testing using zink

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CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming
26 May 2025 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

In my case use two apps:

https://github.com/Umio-Yasuno/amdgpu_top [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/WEEi8vU.png [External Link]

https://gitlab.com/mission-center-devs/mission-center [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/rjkpp4u.png [External Link]

both are good in my case (both register iGPU GTT Vram usage), however amdgpu-top have more values

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Wine 10.8 released with user handles in shared memory for better performance
17 May 2025 at 7:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

if anyone dont know and tuubi as correct, game is clair obscur expedition 33

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Wine 10.8 released with user handles in shared memory for better performance
17 May 2025 at 11:54 am UTC Likes: 2

​In my case still work using ernst ppa driver, now with vulkan 1.4.315

https://i.imgur.com/Gc6zwWK.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/Ntnn8f4.png [External Link]

https://i.imgur.com/v6AENwr.png [External Link]

in this game (obviously mostly know which game is) curiously dx12 give more benefits in my case, more smoothly frames (around 30fps) with upscalers stay around 50fps

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SILENT HILL 2 remake gets a surprise GOG release
8 May 2025 at 2:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

oh boy

https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZnoxdzJic3d4NnV5bHcxZ2Z3czhmOG15MHBqb2oyMTN4NmJjaW0xcCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/XhcSIUIkgbmuY/giphy.gif [External Link]

another title have no drm is lollipop chainsaw

however if appear in future clair obscure expedition 33 will be mindblowing

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