Are the games by 10tons outdated on GOG? A few months ago I had to donate a kidney to get Crimsonland up to date.

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@liamdawe You might want to add a link to the GOG version of the game :)


https://www.gog.com/game/steel_rats

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Quoting: CorbenSo the only remaining big point that's still on the list, seems getting those DRM and anti-cheat mechanisms work with wine/proton. Then we would also be able to play the big multiplayer titles, like Fortnite or PUBG... those are still a hurdle for some people to totally switch to Linux I can imagine.

Personally I don't really mind, I don't miss those games. But in general it would be great to be able to have a solution for that.

Unfortunately there's also the 'Windows Media Foundation' issue which has FMV issues in various games, such as the new Resident Evil 2, Darksiders 1 - Warmastered Edition and a few others I forgot the name of.

Should be an interesting year for Wine with all the projects surrounding it.

I got the Media Foundation videos to work with Darksiders Warmastered. This is a new feature in Lutris 0.5.0 which allow installing individual cab file components. Darksider s is the only WMF game I have but I would be interested to see if this method works for other games.

That's wonderful news, got any hints how I can do that without using Lutris? I prefer to use just Wine whenever possible. Thanks

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Quoting: CorbenSo the only remaining big point that's still on the list, seems getting those DRM and anti-cheat mechanisms work with wine/proton. Then we would also be able to play the big multiplayer titles, like Fortnite or PUBG... those are still a hurdle for some people to totally switch to Linux I can imagine.

Personally I don't really mind, I don't miss those games. But in general it would be great to be able to have a solution for that.

Unfortunately there's also the 'Windows Media Foundation' issue which has FMV issues in various games, such as the new Resident Evil 2, Darksiders 1 - Warmastered Edition and a few others I forgot the name of.

Should be an interesting year for Wine with all the projects surrounding it.

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I think this is making a loud noise for nothing, I get it that he didn't reply and may appear rude to some. In such a case respect his choice and move on. I'm sure he had/has his reasons.

There's no need to put pressure. I don't claim to know Philip, but if you look at his github he's very often responding to issues and helping people and that says enough for me.

I for one am grateful for all the work he's done and wish to see DXVK getting better, regardless if it's part of upstream Wine or as a separate addon.

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I wonder how does this compare With DXVK (If it runs).

More Linux games is a good thing but if it performs poorly, chances are it will not be very worth it to the devs.

VP needs to up their tech and move to Vulkan.

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Nice article and it answers my question of "How does native Dying Light compare to DXVK?" pretty much perfectly. But to be honest, I kinda expected these results since all the native games tested are using OpenGL. Porting houses need to adopt Vulkan the same way Feral did.

OpenGL is still fine for low graphics titles but for intensive games Vulkan is a must.

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I think they go with Nvidia because they have somewhat flexible and straight forward drivers and on their distros of choice (Ubuntu family) they're easily upgradeable.

Before I am assaulted by AMD users: I'm not being (or trying) to be a fanboy, it's just the way things, are. They're probably aware that with AMD it's a bit more complicated to upgrade drivers (having to add unofficial PPA's for starters) and that might also increase support costs for their company.

I think if Canonical upgraded the GPU drivers regularly things might be different.

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This year is going to be all about 3rd Gen Ryzen for me, AMD has become too good of a deal for me with high thread count and performance close to Intel.

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I see many people saying Nvidia drivers are bad etc without mentioning a few key points. Sure they are closed source and not as friendly as others in the Linux world but:

- They've offered Linux support for a long time, I still remember NV drivers back when Ubuntu was all the rage (Ubuntu 10.04 etc).
- Performance of their drivers is competitive, and it took a while for (Mesa) AMD to catch up (and now sometimes perform better).
- They have contributed fixes to their drivers to help with DXVK.
- Their drivers can be used on some old distros without too much fuss, not something you can easily do with OSS ones.

I'm not saying they are perfect either, the crappy Prime support on mobile GPUs is why I don't buy laptops with NV GPUs, I'd rather have Intel HD if no AMD alternative is available. However they are far from the bad quality type that some people make them out to be.

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