Great! :)

Btw, do they have to pay license fees to id/Bethesda?
I know that the Quake engine is oss for a long time.
But how about commercial projects?

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Tooth and Tail looks amazing like it could be just my cup of tea.
How did I miss this?

We have soooooo many games on Linux by now, that you miss out gems without even knowing they exist. :/
There was a time I could name 99 % of all commercial native Linux games.
It's good and bad at the same time.

Edit:

Tooth and Tail runs awfully slow on my Haswell notebook. :/
(Graphic settings lowered ofc.)

Edit2:

TaT runs smooth like butter on Windows 10.
Same machine. :/
Game is based on the XNA engine.
Is this a known issue?

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääGood steals. But who does not yet own those!?

Me. I've only got Tomb Raider and the mobile version of Lara Croft GO.

Quoting: AsuSquare! Please put any final fantasy on linux. Preferably FFVII.

I'd be down for VI, IX, the remaster of X, and/or XII. I do know VII runs well with Proton at least.

I played the FF7 PC version back then and I LOVED it.

Yet, while other games from my youth (NES + SNES) typically aged well graphically, FF7 is a pain to me.
I'd like to see a remake on PC/SteamOS but def not the original version.

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Edit: -- Never mind :) --

And now for something completely different:

Let's talk about our pile of shame.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: subHow does DOOM (2016) fit here?

id Tech 6 supports OpenGL and Vulkan.

So how does Proton (which uses DXVK, right?) come into play?

Btw, does WINE support Vulkan by now?

"Proton" is basically Wine + various patches + DXVK. DXVK is (originally) designed for DX11 -> Vulkan translation. It isn't used at all for any games that natively use OpenGL or Vulkan, so for those games (e.g Doom), think of "Proton" as just Wine + various patches.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

So Vulkan is properly supported by WINE as a pass through by now?

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How does DOOM (2016) fit here?

id Tech 6 supports OpenGL and Vulkan.

So how does Proton (which uses DXVK, right?) come into play?

Btw, does WINE support Vulkan by now?

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Quoting: subWhy not Dirt Rally 2.0?

Is Codemasters against a simultaneous Linux release?

Don't get me wrong. It's not that DiRT 4 is a bad game (I don't know) but it doesn't help the platform, if AAA game ports usually appear years later (if at all). Reception outside hard-core Linux gamers is that the platform is not worth to be served on release.

I'm sure I read something somewhere that Feral actually has to buy the rights to port a game to be able to do the ports. If that's true then it would explain older games being ported as they would be cheaper.

Don't quote me on that though, I could be wildly off base. Liam might recall something.

Yes, I also considered this case. :)

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Why not Dirt Rally 2.0?

Is Codemasters against a simultaneous Linux release?

Don't get me wrong. It's not that DiRT 4 is a bad game (I don't know) but it doesn't help the platform, if AAA game ports usually appear years later (if at all). Reception outside hard-core Linux gamers is that the platform is not worth to be served on release.

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Bought it. This is beyond lovely and definitely worth the money.
(No kids yet *cough*)

Did you know this is a thing: "Cockchafer Soup"?
Wow.

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OMG, that looks fantastic.

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