Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: syylkWell, most Blizzard products were known to run well under WINE since dirt was invented - to the point of speculating if somebody internally was smoothing them at the edges on purpose to keep some sort of unsupported-but-working compatibility...

Wasn't speculation. In the past the WoW team did implement things here and there to smoothen running it in Wine. I don't have a source to hand but it was in public postings from their team on their official forum.

Possibly goes back to when Sam Lantinga worked there.

i remember reading somewhere that blizard had an internal build of warcraft running on linux, people especulated that they plan to relase it soon, years have passed and nothing happened, i always assumed that the linux comunity miss interpret the news, an headless server without any graphical pipeline to draw stuff on screen became "it has an native linux port, blizzard might relase it at any moment" only false hopes to convince people to not giveup on linux...
but now, reading this, i think their build was true, it just wasnt native...

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"$68.7 billion"
xbox division dont have this kinda money AFAIK, so i guess the main microsoft company is involved, i doubt its to compete against sony and nintendo, this probably is their answer to valve.

"which is so much money I can't even begin to imagine it."
mandatory meme:

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Quoting: elmapulits kinda worthless since most wiiU games were already ported to switch, some of then received upgrades, and we already have switch emulators on linux.

but it may be good for performance reasons, maybe emulate powerpc is easier than arm?

I don't know if it's easier necessarily, no idea of the technical stuff, but Wii U emulation at this point is certainly further along than Switch emulation at this point in time, possibly because its similar enough in architecture to the original Wii and GameCube that a lot of the emulation techniques from Dolphin could be recycled. At least that's my guess.

omg i completely forgot this, wiiU has support for Wii games for a reason

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pointless if none of my friends gonna use it.
and why would they?
anyway, they are using an browser to render stuff? because not having features like bold support, wtf?
by the UI i think its something like gtk/qt wich will be a waste of time when they try to add more features (reinventing the whell instead of using an browser rendering capabilities).

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" support for more than 8-bit colours"
more than 8 per channel i guess? (R,G,B)

" DRM Leasing support added for VR headsets"
you mean Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital rights Management i guess.

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its kinda worthless since most wiiU games were already ported to switch, some of then received upgrades, and we already have switch emulators on linux.

but it may be good for performance reasons, maybe emulate powerpc is easier than arm?

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maybe developers can include linux as an tag...

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Quoting: 14Thanks for the great info in the article.

What I take out of this is simple: Games released in a year or two will have much better Linux support in EAC.

I work for a company with many software developers and I see all the time how many components get upgraded when they already work right now -- close to never. It only happens when there is a security risk. The business pressure directs devs to add features and fix bugs. Changing EAC SDK would be seen as a risk and could cause a bad experience for the 97% of players that don't need the Linux-compatible version.

so lets place a bug bounty, if someone find an security hole, then the latest version of the SDK will patch it, and developers might migrate to it...

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Quoting: DaddySteamA login might not be required yet, BUT it can be required in the future.

Epic is no saint and definitively wants to profit from it.

so you think they refuse to migrate to the new SDK because they are afraid that epic will relase an mandatory update for it to require an epic account? its more likely that they will refuse such mandatory update.

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i never use twitch, their interface was too heavy for my computer, it was not impossible to use, but it wasnt worth it, its like the chicken and egg problem:
the UI was heavy so i didnt visit it often, as result of not visiting it, i dont know about any good content on it, so i didnt cared enough to give it another try to know if they fixed the ui problem.

so... its looks like it wasnt twitch but twitch performance on firefox... i have no idea of what bootnecks firefox have that twitch uses to have this issue.
for me its easier to giveup on twitch than on firefox, but good to know they are looking at the issue.

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