That's a relief! Thanks Feral!

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Let's hope it's gonna be HAL-right. Ba Dum Tss! ;)

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Quoting: MohandevirSeriously, I'm not terribly shaken/surprised by the news. I really do like what Feral did for Linux gaming and I'm a big fan of the company, but lately they had lots of problems finding new ips to port.

I had the opposite impression when looking at their mobile / Switch news. My fear was they might abaondon Linux and maybe even Mac for their new fields of action.

Tought that too, but did it turned out as they hoped? Anyway, we will find out soon enough. Let's hope it's just an administrative "fumble".

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Seriously, I'm not terribly shaken/surprised by the news. I really do like what Feral did for Linux gaming and I'm a big fan of the company, but lately they had lots of problems finding new ips to port. It was all about Total War series and LiS and as for LiS, it's now considered done. Lately, I play much more games via Proton than Feral native and fully supported titles, even if I prefer the latter. Maybe linux gaming is just moving somewhere else... Let's hope that Proton will become an officially supported "API/SDK/whatever you may call it", soon enough.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Mac market going to dwindle by lack of new valuable X64 gaming hardware? That's another blow to Feral's traditional business model.

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It would be nice and probably more relevant, if we could decide which platform we want to support, in our Steam profile.

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Awesome! In a "complete" edition with all DLCs?

If it's the case, I will hold off from buying it in the current sale (40% off) until it's out.

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"Zone Jeux Indie Loto-Québec". The demonstration footings were probably taken during last summer's Montreal Comiccon... I was there, but if this is the game I remember seeing, the stand was too crowdy. Couldn't try it. Looks awesome!

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Quoting: SonataAs a relatively new Linux person (about 6 months now, if I'm not mistaken). It's good to know that I should be playing games on proton at least for a bit, after buying them on a sale :P

I've been hating on Windows for years (privacy, safety concerns and its general instability) but gaming always tied me to it. And I... honestly have been too lazy to deal with Wine etc. on my own. After hearing about Proton and how easy it was making things (and checking my ratio of games that have a port or run well via Proton) I pulled a hard switch. No dual boot, no VM. Installed Ubuntu. (3 times that night :D)

Anyway. I agree that the lack of ports is also somewhat of a chicken/egg problem.
But I think if via proton the market share of people gaming on linux rises, developers may be more interested into using tools which allow for "effortless" porting.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's partially one of the reasons a lot of indie games actually have a linux port because tools like GameMaker do allow for "exporting a linux version" of the game they're making alongside the obvious Windows port.

Welcome aboard! :)

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Quoting: MohandevirWhat I don't know is if it gets overwritten by your preset, when you activate Proton for all titles...

Once the game is whitelisted with an specific Proton version, it'll default to this specific version unless you change manually thought the options.

Quoting: m-svoNo, it does not. Good point! There are quite a few titles that actually run worse with newer Proton releases, Torchlight from the top of my head.

There's also the other way around, where the newer version runs better than the whitelisted default.

For example I did a request [External Link] for an update to a whitelisted game, where once was because the new release fixed some audio glitches, but now you must change due to a recent update with the game.

So a game being whitelisted doesn't necessary mean that it'll run better/for ever except the game and your system remains the same.

Never said that the whitelist is perfect. It feels like they tried to do something at the start but priorities must have shifted during Proton development and, now, it looks like it was "put on the backburner". This said, in a perfect scenario, there would be a team maintaining the Whitelist. ProntoDB could be a good start to determine which games should be tested for whitelisting, but it's a huge task. Who knows, Valve might come back to it, at some point.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: RickAndTired"early stage" he says, yet Proton already allows me to play so many great games effortlessly. I can't wait to see where it keeps going.

Any idea when they're going to update the "white list"?

protondb has a pretty long list of my games with a "Gold+" or "Platinum" rating, yet the "white list" for Proton hasn't been updated in quite a while...

and

Quoting: gojulAnyway a whitelist update would be great.

Why? What do you both need from the whitelist keeping in mind you can manually set Proton on any game now? The whitelist was originally from before they let us do that.

What's interresting, in the Whitelist, is the fact that the game is installed with a predetermined Proton version. Exemple: in the case of Doom 2016, it's Proton 3.16. For the end user, it's some form of guarantee that it will work as intended with this proton version? What I don't know is if it gets overwritten by your preset, when you activate Proton for all titles...

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