Most interesting is the w/o chinese market share. China is a huge market, and it was to be expected that overall numbers decline. But the number w/o chinese shows we actually are pretty stable, and at a mark I'd say is realistic (1.5-2%).

So it seems it's due to the heavy steam grow that our percent numbers decline, but the number of users should have grown accordingly. Maybe not as fast as we would wish it, but growth is growth.

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Too many linux games I didn't play through yet to bother with wine :D.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: STiATHmh, I don't see anything released ... am I missing the source code? There is none visible for me in the repo.

Seeing the PAL code though.

From the Telegram Group chat [External Link], the AMDVLK is just info. The xgl repo is the vulkan api implementation that works with the PAL code.

Ahh, ye, looks good. I'll start digging :-).

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Hmh, I don't see anything released ... am I missing the source code? There is none visible for me in the repo.

Seeing the PAL code though.

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Quoting: pete910Still waiting on what Oxide/Stardock are doing regards Ashes tbh. :(

This. No news in two month. I'd like to know what's making the port hard, having the engine running in Vulkan already. Would be interesting to know.
That game really could finally ease my need for a good RTS in Linux :-).

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?

It's pretty simple:
Solus ships a newer stack, which newer games require. Especially on LTS or similar, that can help a lot (and ye, that is shipped in the snap).
LSI drops out some libraries known to make issues replacing them with certain other versions of libraries which are known to work.
LSI works around known game bugs (as ark: survival evolved water bug, unity blacks screen bug and more).

I personally think LSI should not be required. It shows, it is, because either game devs don't care or Valve is reluctant to update their software stack which would fix known issues.

It is nice that the guys of Solus, or in this case Ikey is putting a lot of effort in making the gaming experience better and easier Linux, creating a stack/snap which game devs could rely on. We'll see if it's picked up or not, meanwhile we're left with the workarounds LSI can do for us.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIs there any reason to go with "official" wine instead of wine-staging? I always use the latter and never had any problems.

Not every fix in Wine staging works well for some games. Some actually make things worse.

Hmh. Sometimes it makes performance better, but badly hurts other stuff. Like talking of the 1.12.1 WoW client, where light sources seem to be fucked up in gallium-nine. If you "move down" the camera to be closer to the floor, it adjusts the light sources with the camera instead sticking on the character. Which .. hardly ever can be right ;-).

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Hmh, turn based. Not so sure yet. I miss good old RTS.

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It's pretty fun to play in multiplayer already. Even when I don't see it finalized any time soon, it's a very nice game for some fun with friends.

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I know the pain. I lately made one of our software vendors aware that they're not allowed to use certain things in their product without opensourcing the changes made under the very same license.

They were not even aware of that, nor did they bother initially. In the end they gave way, and rewrote the whole product from scratch themselves without the license violations.

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