If you're a fan, I imagine you are aware of Freespace 2 Open, which you can install via the Knossos launcher. I tried it for the open source Babylon 5 mod, The Babylon Project.

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Yea, the 580 driver series will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta-series GeForce GPUs. The 10 series GPUs are mostly Pascal chips. Here's the link to Nvidia's post:

Support Plan for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta-series GeForce GPUs. [External Link]

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Morrowind remains my favorite game of all time. I have been a fan for over 20 years and still play it regularly -- carefully modded and in the OpenMW engine, of course!

IMO, OpenMW surpassed the vanilla engine (MCP/MWGE patched) with version 0.48.0. The only flaw I see is the lack of support for MWSE-based mods, no matter what excuse the devs give.

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I wouldn't bother with the Premium trial. It's just for 3 days. They're getting trashed for the offer in the comments.

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Well, there goes BioWare...

It seems like most companies bought out by "investment consortiums" tend to tank. All these investment groups seem to care about is "raping and pillaging" their acquisitions, rather than long term management.

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I hadn't known about that but, somehow, I am not surprised. Thanks for the link to the article.

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shouldn't it be comparatively easy to just make some older-Linux snapshots

Isn't that what Valve does with their Steam runtime containers? Lutris has one too. I've had to use the Lutris one a couple times just to get some native games to run (and they weren't that old, either).

I seem to recall GloriousEggroll musing about eventually incorporating native runtime container support into his UMU launcher. That would be cool.

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@melkemind

someone at Microsoft might try to find a way to lock PC gamers into their ecosystem

Hasn't M$ been trying to do that for decades? I thought that was the point of DirectX and all their other gaming-related APIs and tools...

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@Purple Library Guy

Huh. Is there a reason they didn't make these things run Xbox stuff? How hard would that have been? I mean, if they're going to brand them all Xbox . . .

I imagine that M$ is targeting the Xbox branding related to their Xbox app for Windows PC. The latest version of this app has expanded support to other storefronts as well as what appears to be the user's Xbox catalogue. If this means that you can play your Xbox games in Windows, then I guess they've got that covered.

Basically, the Xbox app now looks like any number of the general game launchers to me.

Frankly, I have to agree with you. A true portable Xbox would probably be wildly popular. It would have also allowed them to maintain their closed ecosystem. Surprising that they didn't go that way ...

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I'm curious. If they optimized for Steamdeck, did they give the native version its own set of textures? How much did it reduce the drive space required for install?

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