Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapul"there will be a lot of disappointed players if some games are blocked when they ship with the Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3 distribution."

or players instaling windows :unsure:

IMHO some 99% of steam users don't know how to even install Windows on a normal PC. They all get it preinstalled with their gaming pc.

on my country people didnt knew how to USE an computer, but they were able to put an pirated copy of windows to replace the shit linux distributions that came on cheap computers due to tax exemptions for machines running linux.

to be fair, things were much worse back then:
1)prety much no games
2)an shit distribution
3)an country who is used to pirate stuff.

hopefully things will be different this time, but i would not hold my breath, its better to not create any expectation and be surprised than create and be disapointed.

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"there will be a lot of disappointed players if some games are blocked when they ship with the Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3 distribution."

or players instaling windows :unsure:

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Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure why they thought it would be a good idea to make developers perform a "few clicks" to enable other platform support. Developers quite frankly shouldn't have a say about what platforms people run their software on. Just enable it for all EAC games, with no way to turn it off. :S

Hm, freedom of choice - but not for game devs?
No one should be forced to support Linux IMHO.

i think if an software took away control form the developers of where their software/game is shipped, this software would be dumped by many big companies, because its damage their capabilitie of charging for platforms like stadia to support their platforms.
unless you are big like valve and essential to their business that move could make game developers dump you.

as for counting it as freedom? i'm not sure if it counts.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: dubigrasuSo, Fortnite?

Yeah... For that to happen, Epic will have to make the few clicks... It's not a given! :tongue:

:grin:

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i was trying to figure out what anti cheat solution an specific game uses and found this usefull site:

https://levvvel.com/games-with-kernel-level-anti-cheat-software/ [External Link]

here is the ammount of games per anti cheat software (according to this site wich probably is incomplete)

easy anti cheat 140 games

battle eye 42 games (valve is working on it)
esea (1 game, from valve)
faceit (1 game, from valve)

still missing
equ8 (5 games)
mhyprot2 (2 games)
nprotect gameguard 15 games
punk buster 52 games
ten project (1 games)
vanguard (1 games)
xigncode3 (6 games)

speaking of non steam games, all EA/dice games seem to be using punk buster, as for ubisoft, they seem to be spread among many solutions

[update]
i said all EA/dice games were using punk buster, but thats only true EA developed games, not EA published games.
some EA published games were made using easy anti cheat, i'm not sure if most of then are still active.

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hell i hope that means i will be able to use something like jack-rack without messing the audio of everything else

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Quoting: const

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: FrawoWell, Valve already made a Linux console and CDPR did nothing.

They did something. They hired VP to do their TW2 port and they probably intended to let them continue with TW3. But since the Steam Machines went nowhere, so did their efforts.

Definitely interesting to know whether they would come back and do it for real if the Steam Deck takes off. Even a Vulkan engine in the game would be a big step.

The shitstorm for the initially really bad port was probably enough to make them stay away. TW3 was never announced by CDPR.

dude there was literally an big banner saying witcher 3 was coming to steamOS

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Quoting: Lachu„we saw the Phil Spencer of Xbox had access too and commented on Halo, Age of Empires and xCloud working nicely.”

Mueeehhhhh ... !
So MS test these games on modified Arch Linux?

asking the real question

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: elmapul"- Add ARM support"
wth '-', serious? there is any wine-arm?

Wine is ported to Android [External Link] and does (supposedly, I never tried it) run some WinRT applications on ARM.

applications is a thing that dont require an low input lag to work...
i wonder how well it can play games

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Quoting: BielFPsThis is one of the reasons I think Steam Deck might ship with Valve's custom kernel, with Futex2 and probably some other out of tree patches.

probably with some form of drm to convince netflix and others to support it (netflix already works on linux at 720p, but im not sure about disney+ and others)

and the deal they have with anti cheat solutions may include some kernel level features.

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