hmm indeed that does not look like Xen, it has (men-made?) structures - afaik the original Xen from HL1 is not built this way.

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Well, I have one - it runs on my 2nd TV which is quite big (42") but not smart and also not really new, so the steam link is the way to go for me. Bought it back in the days when it was around €50.

I just hope valve does have new surprises for us for this/next year, things which some devs are not allowed to talk about yet.

The app runs just fine, but personally I rarely use it, since I usually want to stream to a TV, not my phone/tablet.

IMHO this happened too soon.

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hitman 2 of course, in my opinion it is a shame that it was not a day1 simultaneous release.
I guess the denuvo copy protection details prevented management from even considering a port until some time has passed.

GTA 5 is surely too much to ask ;D

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Quoting: Mal

Quoting: mirooh well, I am really not that happy as most people.

from now on I'm really afraid that too many publishers will use this as an excuse not to provide native linux builds in case it runs "well enough" with proton/wine.

since this is now to be built-in, most people will not have to understand what wine even is, they will take the running binary for granted. hence what is to expect is less performance and continuous direct x instead of opengl or vulkan

this would totally be acceptable for older/legacy titles, but I really think too many will jump on that train that it runs with proton and that there is no need to compile it for linux.
we'll see.

I am torn.

The fundamentalist half of me tells me exactly what you wrote.

But the pragmatic half invites me to look at reality: for linux now it's not an issue of technology anymore. It's very possible to develop new titles to be portable an native. Why is not happening then? You all know why. Market share. That cold heartless numbers that will convince the board dudes that there actually people out there willing to buy your linux version. Infact Valve confirmed that wine will count as linux.

If we have to deal with the devil for these numbers so be it. What has linux world to lose anyway? We're stuck in a limbo. If it works good. If it backfires screw it. I'll change hobby to bird watching,

well I am not pessimistic about this, surely it will do lots and lots of good.
I am just afraid that too many people will blame "linux" for the less performance and more bugs, not understanding that this is not a native build, that there is dx->vulkan translation and .dll emulation aka at least one additional layer which makes things slower and more buggy.

for whom mentioned that even native binaries can be or are slower: do not forget that graphics card vendors heavily optimize their GPUs for directX - OpenGL was always secondary, I hope this will totally change with vulkan since it became more and more important for everyone, not just linux.

However, I think directX will be the main priority for a long time, there is too much market share and the GPU instruction sets needed for DX are already very well tested, where vulkan is too new and OpenGL with too little market share.

The good news in this good news is that it counts as a linux sale, that is quite something, but I'd like to know how/when exactly?

- what if a game is _not_ marked as proton-compatible, one nevertheless buys it and plays it with proton?
- or do games have to be marked as compatible + bought with steam running on linux?

the first case would mean that only those games that are greenlit for steam play do count as a linux sale and the others not.

liamdawe, could you clarify with valve?

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liamdawe, perhaps you'd like to ask around whether your sale counts as a windows-sale or linux-sale, that would be something interesting to let devs know about , not thinking "one more windows user of our game"

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oh well, I am really not that happy as most people.

from now on I'm really afraid that too many publishers will use this as an excuse not to provide native linux builds in case it runs "well enough" with proton/wine.

since this is now to be built-in, most people will not have to understand what wine even is, they will take the running binary for granted. hence what is to expect is less performance and continuous direct x instead of opengl or vulkan

this would totally be acceptable for older/legacy titles, but I really think too many will jump on that train that it runs with proton and that there is no need to compile it for linux.
we'll see.

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So where can I find the hardware requirements for Half Life 3?

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well I had zero crashes there when playing the first chapter. since then I've been waiting for the second (Xen). The game is surely worth the money and as far as I understand it, xen will not be 100% the same as it was in half life 1, but even longer and a little different, as the first chapter of the game.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo all I have to say is "I love DRM free games!" and I'm in? Sure thing, boss.

Looking forward to the new Kubuntu update, too.

Same here, I prefer KDE.

I love DRM free games, so Lets h4xx ! :D

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I'd even buy these if they were on linux ..?

btw. the redeem-period of 15 days is perfectly normal. Those keys are not active for a lifetime, you usually have around 2-3 weeks to redeem them.

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