And to end the weekend, the Wine Staging 5.18 patches have been released about an hour ago, unfortunately the mfplat support has been disabled in this release.

EDIT:
The mfplat patches have been rebased soon after the release and have applied correctly to the Wine 5.18 codebase. Gonna run a few tests as usual :whistle:

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Quoting: chimpyNot completely relevant to the article, but does anyone know how to install a non Steam DLC to a Steam game? Specifically Mass Effect; Steam doesn't have any of the DLC available but they are available for free as executibles on the EA site. Tried to install by adding it like you'd add a non Steam game to Steam, but when it looks for where Mass Effect is installed it can't find it.

Got a link to the DLC download? I can try to figure out how to install them Manually.

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Quoting: t3gIt’s cute that WINE is at 5.18, but Proton is stuck at 5.9 since WINE broke esync/fsync and Proton likes to have it.

The lack of esync/fsync has been a bit of a blocker in modern Wine versions, I don't use Proton however I'm also stuck with Wine 5.9 too, some games perform way too good to play without. I only use more modern Wine releases for games which need mfplat and don't benefit much from esync/fsync.

There are also the unfortunate cases (especially Unity games) where they use mfplat but performance is abysmal without esync/fsync. Hopefully one day we'll have a Wine releases which sports both at the same time.

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I've launched the game again after so long to try out this update, unfortunately some weapons don't play well with ultrawide resolutions, even after fixing the fov.

Regardless, it's good to see this game being maintained after all these years, I played it a lot in my teens and still somewhat prefer it over Quake 3.

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Quoting: whizseThanks guys!

I finally had time to compile Mesa from git and the game is rendering correctly now. The shader link errors disappeared too so I guess the problem really was insufficient shader buffers.

A bit late to the party, but I had time to test it out and can also confirm the black crowd and missing trees.

Tested on Mesa 20.1.8 / RX 5500XT

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will you use it and what do you think of Microsoft getting certain applications on Linux?

While I welcome native software, even from Microsoft. I'll only use them when it's really necessary. Edge is not such a case, I'm very happy and settled with Firefox since v5.

The only MS related software I use is Skype to communicate with my dad, he's accustomed to Windows and uses Skype as his main voip.

They'll have to do better than a browser to impress me, they've left a stain which will be hard to remove. Open sourcing some of their tech to help Linux gaming, now that would be useful.

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Curiosity got the better of me, I ran a quick compile with this new release. Control runs but with a bunch of errors in terminal, the main menu renders fine but as soon as you start a new game it goes into a huge memory leak. It quickly ate up all 16GB, luckily I managed to kill it before the swap space filled up too.

Be careful if you want to tinker. Tip: I always keep an SSH login from my phone to pc in case of emergency access to terminal. :wink:

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Microsoft only love themselves and their contributions to open source (and Linux) is because they need it. If we benefit anything from them it's because of the way things are.

On the topic at hand, I thought work on the vkd3d had halted after Kucia's passing, the github page hasn't been updated since 2018. Wasn't aware they were still working on it on their own git.

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Definitely going for an AMD card next.

My main system runs a 2060 Super however in recent months I also bought an RX 5500XT (cheapest Navi card I could get my hands on) to learn more about Mesa, compiling the drivers and living without Nvidia in general.

After my experience, I can say I like AMD better. Mesa has a certain degree of flexibility that Nvidia doesn't offer (such as running multiple drivers if necessary). If I were to go back in time with what I know now, it would be a 5700XT.

TBH I'm not expecting AMD to blow Nvidia out of the water in October, but if performance will be anywhere close at a reasonable price, I'm game for switching out my 2060 S.

Lately I've been playing on my 5500XT system a lot, I haven't encountered any crashes, glitches or otherwise instabilities.

Sorry long read :)

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Very nice design, price and features, it's much better than some mainstream brands found locally. Except for that horrible Intel CPU lineup which I wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole.

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