Nah, much too scary! What if I fail?

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Quoting: elmapul"- Add ARM support"
wth '-', serious? there is any wine-arm?

Wine is ported to Android [External Link] and does (supposedly, I never tried it) run some WinRT applications on ARM.

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According to this post from February, it does work on Nvidia, but was very slow:

Here’s the caveat for all of the above: at present, zink on NV is unusably slow. The primary reason for this is that every frame that gets displayed has to be copied multiple times

From https://www.supergoodcode.com/nv/ [External Link]

I'm not sure if the WSI support, which was mentioned as a potential performance improvement, have since landed?

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I guess it was the Orange Box here too. I mostly bought it to appease my guilty conscience for pirating Half Life 2 some years prior.

(It was a lot easier back then to get the pirated version running in Wine).

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It's quite fun to see developers having some crazy notion for a game and going all in, making an actual product of it, no matter how short it is instead of just shelving the idea for later project that may never be.

Also, "short and somewhat disturbing"? <michael scott>That's what she said!</michael scott>

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, yeah, but specifically the games nobody cares about.

Or games people are reluctant to admit to playing? No Proton reports for titles like The Seduction of Shaqeera!? :tongue:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyA quick google suggests that there are around 50,000 games

That's an interesting tidbit.

There's about 5000 (open and closed) game specific issues on the Proton bug tracker, and around 20 000 game reports on ProtonDB. So half the games on Steam have never been put through the ringer?

On a similar note, I have never seen anything that suggests that Valve themselves are doing any sort of large scale testing. Given that they likely sit on the worlds largest repository of Windows apps they could do regression testing on a VERY large scale. What fun that project would be to work on!

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Quoting: LinuxwarperI believe Valve will achieve a level of compatibility to make most of people's library playable, assuming anti-cheat support comes. They don't have to reach 100%, but the percentage treshold that is acceptable at launch. With developers entering the fray, Proton compatibility will accelerate much faster in 2022 than it has the years before. Media spreading FUD about compatibility isn't helping.

Yeah, I think I mentioned this before, but it will be interesting to follow media reports. Going by ProtonDB* 82% of games tested work. That's pretty good. But if you focus on the top ten, only 50% work. Is the glass half full or half empty?

Most of the top ten games with problems are most likely issues with AC/DRM so hopefully more will work on launch day, but for most users and reviewers the success of the Deck might come down to how well it runs one particular game.

Interesting times ahead!

* Not the most reliable metric, I know.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, Epic can go screw as far as I'm concerned. But I understand sometimes people want the free games.

I've been picking up the freebies thinking they might eventually go belly up and just go "Screw it, here, go redeem your games on GOG/Steam". :tongue:

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