Quoting: adamhmIt shouldn't be too big an issue as long as the games are developed well... lots of older Linux games still work now without too much fuss. Plus GOG maintain the games they sell to get & keep them working on modern systems; it's been one of their key selling points right from the very beginning, back when they were "Good Old Games". And then there are also things like Flatpak that can help where dependency conflicts exist.

You are right at some point.
Steam does the same.
Developers also - ship needed (often older) libraries with their games.
But this will stop at some point of time.
Libraries depend on other libraries and so on. Some libraries depend on a specific major kernel, some depend on scripts.
In the end you will end up collecting games, old libraries to preload, wrapper scripts and maybe some virtual machines of old linux distros.
Every software/game has EOL/Support.
It makes more sense to play games when they are new and active.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887In my opinion there's the most important thing - Ownership.

Games that require Steam running to play are more of a longtime lease than something you actually own. I buy my games DRM-Free because I can play them anytime and anywhere without depending on any service.

What will you do with all your collected games in ten years when no Linux distro ships the old libs it needs to run?
Sure there are some great games that can be played/replayed many times. But these ones normally get remastered at some point of time.
I personally think it's a waste of time and resources to collect games for longer than "a long time lease".

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I think they should go the UE4 (UnrealEngine4) way.

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Quoting: ShmerlTo hit this bug, your XFS partition should be around 1.5 TB or more. How big is yours?

I see. No, mine is only 1TB.

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Quoting: ShmerlIt never worked for me properly (doesn't save anything), which I suspect is an infamous lack of LFS bug that hits XFS filesystems because the game is 32-bit. I was a bit lazy reporting it to developers, though I should do it really.

I also use Debian and XFS for all my games > this works.
My root is EXT4 and steam game-library is mounted under /mnt/games on XFS.

For me 99.999% of games work this way.
The only one that does not work that way is "Bound By Flame" (also 32bit).
I've reported this to devs years ago - no answer as of today.

Maybe it would be sufficient to mount /home on EXT4?

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Quoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.

Anyone seen this error before?

Its not broken mesa driver, as @johndoe says, its broken game.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/373420/discussions/0/353915309344847166/ [External Link]

Thanks for clarify this.
I use Intel iGPU, so I have no choice other than mesa.

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Quoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.

Anyone seen this error before?

This game is great. Don't give up too fast, but it's some kind of broken when you use mesa drivers. Read here...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93551 [External Link]

Compiling the "LD_PRELOAD shim" works for me.

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Quoting: ScooptaVP doesn't port...they just wrap. I won't be buying this.

As long as I get STABLE 30-60 FPS it's fine for me.
I never understood these FPS-Hunter gamers out there always comparing their dicks.

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Quoting: GuestWho cares about "before that" ? No, MS did not pay Carmack to say D3D is better. It simply is for many reasons... no extension hell, rigorous testing standards, support for proper multithreading...

GL has simply not kept up to speed. Ask any developer who has used GL seriously and they will tell you that. Pretty much everything Rich Geldreich has said on the subject, for example.

Who cares? - me for example.
MS did not pay Carmack - I did not say that.
No extension hell... - I already said that OpenGL is more complex.

Before Bethesda took id Software all their games where available for Linux native.
Nowadays DOOM/RAGE developers are not able to deliver a linux installer anymore.
What do you think about this? - maybe you know more than me?

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Quoting: GuestSo the dev log basically said that Mesa was tested and looked to work, but may not officially carry support. If the main development machine has nvidia hardware though, then that's what they test against the most. Still, I'm hopeful it'll just work with Mesa. Obviously we'll see when it gets release, but if it's developed with an OpenGL4.5 core context in mind, then it's likely ok, and an early access / beta phase will help iron out anything serious I'm sure.

I did not read the dev log (shame on me) and agree with you.
But it would be a shame when MESA does not get OFFICIAL support.

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