I think this was inevitable, steam machines, link and controller made them learn a lot, and brought them to the investment onto d9vk, dxvk and wine/proton.

They did realize that they could not move a lot of developers to native ports because they did not reach a critical mass. They realized without the support they will not.

I think proton may be the only way because it's a compatibility layer they can support on their own.

While I could not care less if a game uses wine or not to run as long as it runs fine, I do personally not think that will be possible without a huge number of developers actually supporting proton/wine for the game developers. And just the caring about the bugs in proton costs money for a studio.

I do not see that, and while wine got a lot better in the years, there is so much which prevents a lot of games behaving properly.

Browser support, .NET support, sound, cutscenes, etc. are still lacking in areas, as is anti cheat, and while we heared about anti cheat, we didn't hear about any of the others.

A lot of games need Proton tweaks. Of course they could do that at valve, but that team would need to be huge, and often wold require a custom proton (and not just an own prefix) for a certain game to work around side effects which just do not occur in windows - since a best assumption how to handle certain things in linux compared to windows is just that, and there is a lot of that in wine. While 80 percent of the time accurate, it's not the other 20 percent.

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Not really interesting to me, I am somewhat of a die hard PC player.

But the move to Arch makes sense to me, and seeing them officially announcing working with anti cheat vendors is good to know, that could make ashes of creation work at some point in time for me (their alpha/beta access is too expensive for me anyway).

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Nice, that could clear the path for a better wayland adoption.

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So they looked at the object code and reimplemented exactly what was there functionality whise but not code whise. At least looking at it they do not seem to use binary code from the original game but data files which are IP ofc, why you need a original copy.

While I see why this could be an IP case, it's about the same as reimplementing an API, as in the Java case, or reimplementing D3D9 or DX11, wine inplementation of windows APIs etc.

It's not the same code, even though it works the same way.

Legally, it's debatable, but I do not think just becsuse code works the same way it's an IP.

That's for courts to decide. But it's nothing more than a reimplementation looking at ehat the original does.

The benefit out of that takedown notice or probably in the end lawsuite for Take-Two is questionable.

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I do not really mind older software, but for newer kernels, drivers and mesa. Package-whise debian hardly misses anything.

So that's pretty much useless to me.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: STiATInteresting, will have to check how much stamina blocking a ground slam takes.

In the end I liked the playstyle of dodging them and hitting them in the butt.. was fun to me (more fun than arrows)..

Probably will still kill them that way even if blocking turns out more efficient... for the fun of it

I usually shoot the trolls in the crotch. I also want to be able to make rugs out of their skin. Would be sweet to have a self-healing rug.

Turns out the blocks are cheap enough to kill them without moving in bronze gear. Still more fun shooting them or dodging eh?

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And I get my hardware for my completely fanless/passivley cooled PC for the living room with a Ryzen5-3600X and a MSI RTX3070 Trio Gaming X in two weeks.

Can't wait to get more than 30 FPS in the game on my living room PC and do some couch base, protal network building and sailing .. I still hardly got 30 % discovered of my map seed :D.

My main portal room gets out of hand in size though, I probably need to devide them into structures per sector or something like that.

Which reminds me.. time to get on patreon here again to support Liam since my financial situation obviously improved in the past few month.

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Interesting, will have to check how much stamina blocking a ground slam takes.

In the end I liked the playstyle of dodging them and hitting them in the butt.. was fun to me (more fun than arrows)..

Probably will still kill them that way even if blocking turns out more efficient... for the fun of it

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On this PC which has little in terms of graphics (RX460), I can get input lag pretty reliably using higher settings than the GPU can handle:

• Metro Exodus


• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided


• Kingdom Come: Deliverance (without tweaking graphics settings properly, their defaults are horrible)

On my newer PC (GTX3060TI) I didn't experience this kind of input lag yet.

I'll probably do some testing on this old one and see if I see improvements between 6.3 and experimental and/or hickups/regressions.

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Sounds nice, I still will stick with Solus and Budgie.

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