Quoting: beniwtv

Quoting: tuubiAn old release not running on modern distros is a problem, and it's great that Wine helps you there. But this shouldn't lead you to the conclusion that we should emulate all of our games.

That wasn't my conclusion at all - sorry if it looked that way - rather, that neither native or emulation is "better" than the other, both have their places.

Emulation is what you resort to if a good native build is not available. There's simply no question about which is better, from any practical standpoint. That's no argument against emulation of course, just that there's no point in this comparison.

Well, there's always the standpoint of the developer who doesn't really want to put in (or can't financially justify) the effort, and that's one we shall have to tolerate as long as we represent such a small market. For us Linux gamers though, native is the obvious winner.

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Quoting: beniwtv

Quoting: BeamboomMaybe that's where we'll end up. Emulation. But that is a loss. Emulation/bridging/compatibility layering/call it what you want always comes with a cost, compared to properly coded and compiled binaries for our platform. It just does.

Personally, I recently have begun to question that native binaries are better. I have a perfect boxed copy of X2: The Threat from LGP, yet that won't work on any modern distro anymore. Nor can I feasibly emulate (or virtualize) an old distro, with 3D acceleration, since no vendor makes drivers for distros that old. But I can play the Steam version in Wine just fine.

I have to agree with Beamboom here. Wine is great, and many games run extremely well on it, but it will never be perfect. That's just a fact. Native releases are the way to go.

An old release not running on modern distros is a problem, and it's great that Wine helps you there. But this shouldn't lead you to the conclusion that we should emulate all of our games.

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I remember my young nephew was extremely disappointed after getting this game as a gift and then bumping into a game breaking bug quite a bit into the game. Something to do with hang gliders or parachutes if I remember correctly. He played on Windows of course, and quite a while ago. Hopefully that has either been fixed or doesn't trigger on Proton or your hardware.

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: EhvisTurned that crap off within a minute again. I'm not sure what it does, but it makes moving windows feel weird.

Might be issue with your DE/WM or compositing. Perf drop with this on is just 1-2% and when testing GTK response times it adds just few milliseconds for the GTK windows.

It's not a performance drop. It's that I feel a delay when I pick up a window to move it and it really irritates me.

Maybe your desktop compositor? I remember I switched off the vsync option in compton back when I started running my old 960 with ForceFullCompositionPipeline enabled.

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: MayeulCUnfortunately, last time I checked, there was only a curl | bash way of installing it (which is a big no-no)

Out of curiosity, why is installing via curl not recommended?

I don't think the command being curl is the important bit here, but the fact that they ask you to blindly execute a shell script you download from an internet URL. Of course, you can just download the script first and check it over before executing. I certainly would.

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Quoting: Dribbleondo

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DribbleondoPlay it! (fair warning, the difficulty curve is...annoying)

Did you play the original or the remaster/re-release? They actually made some of the more frustrating parts easier IIRC.

Rerelease. Still annoying.

When did this remaster happen? I played the first linux port from humble, iirc

That's the re-release. Remaster might be a strong word here, but if I remember correctly, it supports more resolutions than the original with some assorted tweaks here and there.

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Quoting: DribbleondoPlay it! (fair warning, the difficulty curve is...annoying)

Did you play the original or the remaster/re-release? They actually made some of the more frustrating parts easier IIRC.

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In my opinion Psychonauts' charm and innovative design easily offset its quirks. The new game being a very direct sequel is as good a reason as any to (re)visit the original.

Maybe not for full price if you're not sure, but it regularly goes for 90% off at itch.io, GOG, Steam and Humble.

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Took me a while to remember that yes, I am indeed using the open source drivers as of a week ago.

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Looks like more of the same.

Good.

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