Quoting: GuestArgh, went to try it but the lib requirements are a bit messed up. I suppose it really is intended for Ubuntu.

Used GameMaker by the looks of things. I've no experience with that, but I wonder if that's where the build particulars are coming from.

Quoting: ElectricPrismAny AMD Index owners here to weigh in? As a previous Nvidia user I am not surprised in the slightest.

Still waiting on my ship date.

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Quoting: HoriIDK... I've got a Valve Index this monday (a great way to fight the pandemic btw) and SteamVR works VERY badly on Linux, and often freezes my whole system. Many games also refuse to start even.

I'm sorry to say this but I play all my VR games on Windows because of that, and they will likely count as Windows sales because of this. I really hoped I can stick to Linux, but VR is where I draw the line. I can handle errors, glitches and crashes on traditional games, but not in VR.

If I may ask - what GPU?

Recently bought a 5700XT and waiting for the Index, which currently says 2-4 weeks. :(

Alex will run on the rx 5700. I am currently running Arch with these tweeks from the mesa-git repo, vulkan-radeon-git, mesa-git, together with 32 bit libs and xf86-video-amdgpu-git. I am also using the drm-fixes-5.6 branch of the linux kernel (An easy way to do this can be found in gardotd426 's comment on this thread [External Link] from about a week ago). I have had about 3 crashes in about 4.5 hours of gameplay and been able to ssh in but can only recover with a reboot.
The game itself is great fun, I am using the index headset but I only have the old controllers and I think to get the most out of the game you need valves new controllers.

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Quoting: mike456What's this teleportation thing, can't you simply walk in vr like in non vr 3d games?

Basically, it is easier on most people's brains to point and click to move.

You can walk around in the play space physically, but of course you are limited by walls and cable length. Some games implement an arm swinging method to move, which seems to work pretty well for others. But a lot of games provide various options. One common one is to kind of put blinders on as you turn (the motion makes some ill if you smoothly try moving with say a mouse / controller, because your vision is sliding around while your head is not). If you can stand and play Windlands standing and not fall over or puke, you should be able to handle anything in VR.

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Quoting: subBtw, do you know what the showstopper for RDR2 is? :)

There are multiple, but one of them is that the game uses both D3D11 and Vulkan at the same time and that just doesn't work on wine.

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Quoting: vipor29i am suprised noone has gotten doom eternal working

I have, but it involves getting the DRM-free executable that Bethesda in all their incompetence leaked, building your own Vulkan loader since no distro ships a recent enough one, and patching certain Proton libraries and I'm not inclined to go into details.

And it's currently unknown whether that exe is even capable of running the whole game.

Quoting: HoriIDK... I've got a Valve Index this monday (a great way to fight the pandemic btw) and SteamVR works VERY badly on Linux, and often freezes my whole system. Many games also refuse to start even.

I'm sorry to say this but I play all my VR games on Windows because of that, and they will likely count as Windows sales because of this. I really hoped I can stick to Linux, but VR is where I draw the line. I can handle errors, glitches and crashes on traditional games, but not in VR.

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Quoting: sigzI'm really disapointed.. Valve doesn't release its own game with vulkan and for steam OS at release ?? And they make it with dx11 after participating massively on vulkan for years ?? I don't get it..
They just don't believe themselves on linux gaming then, It would not be surprising if they delay more and more alyx linux release.

It's likely a case of when production started, Vulkan was still too new and rough or didn't have extensions needed to get the kind of performance they wanted. As we've seen with Artifact (RIP) and Dota Underlords, their newer stuff is usually Vulkan at release.