For those that don't closely track wine, the "System call thunks in NTDLL" is really important. This is a stepping stone to supporting a lot of different anti-cheat mechanisms.

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A few of these APIs are also used by wine-staging, as there's a bunch of features in Windows games that you cannot support without them. (PhysX in Borderlands 2 will refuse to run, for example)

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Quoting: Linuxwarper...
This [External Link] is how it compares to /r/pcgaming/ (blue). The only thing I can derive from it is that interest for gaming on Linux is growing.
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!100*linux_gaming/(pcgaming + linux_gaming) [External Link]

It definitely looks like we leveled off our decline, and maybe even have a bit of an uptick (percentage-wise) now. Note that the more recent data has that fuzz because there's a bunch of missing data there for /r/pcgaming/ (not sure why that's the case, but I'm not going to go to the trouble to try and clean it).

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Quoting: Linuxwarper...
Below is a graph that displays suscribers to /r/Linux_Gaming. Notice how ever since 2018 (Proton announcement) there has been a sharp uptick?
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That's a very interesting plot, I would be very curious to see how this data compares percentage-wise to some of the major gaming subreddits. Any chance you would enlighten us?

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Quoting: Sonata...
I mean stuff like Vanguard and DAC are kernel-level and would basically "take full control over the system" or be in the position to do so, if I'm not mistaken.
Would they also work that way under wine?...

Wine runs the "kernel" as a userspace process, so no - it would not give them full control of your Linux box. They do have "full control" of anything running in Wine (provided that Wine has implemented the calls they're using).

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Every time something breaks under Wine we learn more about how Windows works and get better and better at supporting it's eccentricities. For example, a Wine developer has already got a hack together for DAC:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3773#issuecomment-632292806 [External Link]

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: compholio...
Staging (DO NOT USE) [External Link]

(currently at 418.30)

Again, like the other link someone gave, this is not the correct one. The one I linked to in my first comment is the correct one, but it's not being updated.

Yeah, Michael Marley is clearly not updating the "correct" dev PPA anymore - but he has his own PPAs and he does make updates there. He has actually posted the 418.31.03 driver now, but it's to his "staging 2 [External Link]" PPA.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Blaster-PRwhere is the ppa for this we need one!

Sadly, it seems the original Ubuntu PPA [External Link] for these drivers hasn't been updated in some time.

I probably shouldn't share this ... but:
Staging (DO NOT USE) [External Link]

(currently at 418.30)

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Quoting: MayeulCWhat is the point of implementing s3tc in wine if it's present in virtually every driver, by the way?

Some games ask Direct3D to decompress the texture, touch it up a bit, and then send it to the driver. Don't ask me why, but here's an example [External Link].

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Quoting: GuestWake me up when they solve the MESA random map generation issue...

Are you saying it uses the video card to generate random maps? O.o

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