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Quoting: Xaero_VincentOr is this just Google using Debian as a VM host to run Windows 10 guests w/ GPU passthrough, where the games will run inside Windows and get streamed in the cloud?

I don't think Vulkan would be such a big deal if it were that. Plus they're going to have enough speed issues with streaming stuff without running everything in VMs.

Interesting. Well there are very few Vulkan games for Linux now. It's seems like it would get very expensive if Google was paying game developers directly to port to Linux for their service. Perhaps Project Stream's Assassins Creed Odyssey was playing on Debian with Wine Staging + DXVK and therefore running via Vulkan?

an triple A game cost arround 40~250 millions of dollars to make, google HAS this money, if he can develop an triple A game from scratch, he surrely can make an company port the game for his platform

Quoting: Xaero_VincentNice! So with "primarily", at least some games might be using something like Wine though? If so that would be good news, because then Google might be able to put their weight and push BattlEye and Easy Anti Cheat to behave with Wine if or when popular battle royale games hit the service.

you dont need anti cheat softwares when the game is running on the cloud.

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Quoting: eldakingUgh, gaming "as a service". Frankly, this is worse than games not supporting Linux. Games might be developed for Linux (servers)... but then we can't buy the games to run in our Linux systems. This is the antithesis of FOSS - we don't even have the freedom to run the software ourselves. It's like the most intrusive always online DRM ever coupled with the least software freedom technology allows.

hopefully its an temporary solution to get developers to support chromeOS and other linux distributions, after chromeOS or any distro get an marketshare (since the OS will not matter anymore) i doubt some companies will not offer the option to play offline too

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an console is nothing without exclusives, nvidia shield is there to prove, an great concept but it only took of when they took the same hardware and made an partinership with nintendo to make the switch.

currently, the only exclusive that atari has is cut'n run
watch?v=z0qyUhb3VXI

but, if they really relase that thing, at least it will be better than what they promissed.

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Quoting: AcrophobicWhile there are many Inkscape tutorial out there, most of them is released in video format, which is quite heavy for us with slow internet connection. Meanwhile, the tutorial on his site is available mostly in image and text format. This make it easy to access, and can be easily printed and distributed to student.

plus, video tutorials are horrible to back track if you want to see an specific detail again, and you can't control+C from an text in an video.

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I SAID IT! ^_^
i said it! i said we need to do it with open source games, and they listened!
ok, they probably didnt read my coment, but that is what we need!

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" Valve's video game marketplace has the power to keep Linux alive. "
linux will live regardless of what valve do, it survived back then when we didnt had almost anything to play.
the issue is if it will grow, and i dont see it happening without exclusives unfortunately.
valve already said they will not make exclusives, but maybe google do.

i dont think we should be satisfied with our progress, it could have being much better.
ps2 and ds sold 150 millions units in a single generation, that is enough to get all the best games from the current gen,sure they didnt had as many indie titles as we do, but consoles were much more closed back then, ps4 has 100 millions units sold and get all the best games be then indie or triple a (all , except the exclusives from nintendo, sony or a few games that require a mouse)

if we had an sucessfull console with linux, we could get critical mass in one generation and all the best games from, at least, 1 gen, valve could then complete the library with proton, we would have everything!
but their strategy with steam machines was ...absent at best, actually, what was their strategy? they had any?

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at least itch is open source, so they could try to send an patch for it to save time in the future (or to add support for extra features such as dlc)

https://github.com/itchio [External Link]

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Quoting: massatt212wish they did some improvements on the DX9 department, still have games like ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3 stuttering

stuttering in a few games can be solved by having an better hardware (or closing backgrounds programs if they are ressource intensive)

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"Direct3D 12 support.
A lot more Direct3D 10 and 11 features implemented"

is the support for Direct3D 9 complete already?

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Quoting: Darkhoggand I was still switching to Win to play.

i was Speed reading and it took me 3 reads and 1 minutes to figure out that you didnt miss typed this game was "pay to win", what you typed was: i was switching to windows to play it.

lol

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