Can an amdgpu user confirm that this game works correctly? (even through Wine/Proton, bad OpenGL programming is bad OpenGL programming). I've not had problems with other titles, like Dark Descent, Machine for Pigs, and Soma but I don't have confidence, especially seeing as they pulled Linux support for this one.

I'd like to get it, but I sent Amnesia: Rebirth back twice (tried it again years later) because both the Windows and Linux versions were garbage. (corruption, crashing/freezing... exact same behaviour)

I don't want to waste my time... putzing around with a bad game is a buzz kill.

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I liked that one, it wasn't as annoying/frustrating as Dark Descent and the industrial setting was kind of interesting. I enjoyed reading the notes etc. too in that one.

I wanted to play Amnesia Rebirth, but that's horrible OpenGL programming. I'm sure it works for somebody, but it's just corruption and crash/freezing with both the Linux native and the Windows version for me. Very same behaviour. Trial and error programming on Nvidia, probably. I tried that game twice, once when it came out, and maybe 3 months ago and refunded it both times as "game does not work properly".

I'm afraid to try Amnesia: The Bunker after that fiasco. It's probably going to be crappy too, seeing as they dropped Linux support for that one. I think you'd have to have a hole in the head to use OpenGL for a Windows game, too. The deck is stacked against you. People are going to have all kinds of problems with it, with various graphics drivers on Windows.

Soma, on the other hand, works wonderfully out of the box. From Linux native GoG installer.

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The American Patent system: The reason nobody can ever have nice things.

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I don't personally care about Blizzard, or Activision (both can take turns riding the bologna pony), it's Bethesda/Zenimax that I'm sore about. I loved their games, and they were adopting Vulkan.

Still this is awful that Microsoft is buying up all these publishers. Everything will be polluted with their middleware and horrid interfaces.

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To make your games work with Wine/Proton, you just have to do one thing:

Stick to the bloody API's and don't try to get clever! We'll do the rest. They'll work more reliably, for everyone on Windows too that way. That's the whole point of DirectX and Vulkan and audio APIs (and the Windows APIs too) etc... it's abstracted... you talk to that, it talks to drivers. It's pretty hard to translate trial and error programming.

(Stupid stuff like anti-cheat goes off script too though, of course)

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LOL... they sure move with the versioning. I still can't use Wine 8.7 (I think the -tkg patchsets break it, though it compiles now. I need FSYNC). I can't launch one game with it. We all know the killer app is notepad, and that works though

It's my system wine so I can't fool around, I've had to go back to 8.6.1 and I don't think I'll try my luck again just yet :-)

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It's going to hurt the Steam Deck for sure. Moreover, I'd expect Steam Decks to start shipping with Windows configurations soon.

Also, it's no coincidence that Microsoft is buying up all the big game publishers. It also wouldn't surprise me if Asus was getting near free OS licensing from Microsoft as a carrot.

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As for whether a game you bought on Steam will launch without the client, that greatly depends on the game. Some games don't really require Steam, it's just the platform that sold it to you. Others won't launch without the client services (in which case launching the game should launch Steam, or if Steam is already running it should connect up with it)

I've never had a stupid game that made me do any kind of challenge/response with booklet text, though I've heard of it. Until about 2008, the games I bought were all "buy CD/DVD, install, play". Then they started having activation, where you had to de-auth copies. Then a lot of games were forced on Steam (e.g. starting with "Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2" and boy, did I resent that).

Soon it became pointless to buy physical media for games, because they needed umpteen gigabytes of updates out of the box, since the media was pressed anyway. Often they had worse DRM than Steam, too, when sold that way (e.g. All of Denuvo turned on)

GoG fixes that. I download only the offline installer archives and then I have them. If/when more patches come out, I always have my original download in case the incremental update patches break it. (I was sure glad to have that recourse when I was playing Cyberpunk 2077). Later, you can rebase and download the current archives too of course.

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Awesome, I've not yet run into a DirectX 8 game, but I wondered how it would be if I ever did. I just assumed it wouldn't matter, for such old games the CPU overhead of WineD3D would be OK.

A lot of games got updates that ported them to DX9 to keep them playable.

I hope this gets merged with DXVK (seems cooperative)

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Quoting: EikeThere might be trouble in it and it's very little they lose by not supporting it. Sad, but true.

Actually they are going to lose more than they think. Also, it's not just that they aren't "supporting" Linux, they are actively sabotaging, with failure of the client when the environment is detected.

Here's how they lose. People like me, who were at best indifferent to their stupid game, are now actively hostile towards them. I won't see anyone play this game without admonishment, I'll warn parents (my computer service customers) about it ("the exploitation of children"... buzzwords right there) and any opportunity I get to discourage will be my pleasure. Fair game.

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