Quoting: garpu

Quoting: CorbenI'd like to know if they changed the graphics API. Before it was OpenGL for sure, which worked great on Linux with wine and later with proton. But for VR I guess they had to change to a more recent API. I guess it's Vulkan, but couldn't find anything so far. Well, I bet it'll still be working fine with Steam Play.

I'm a No Man's Sky fan from the beginning. Space games are my very genre ;) And it's so cool how far they've come with their updates. And it's impressive they still release those huge updates for free.

This is my worry, as well, although if they move to dx11, dxvk will likely have us covered. We'll see, though. Maybe Liam or someone can reach out to Hello Games?

Just sent them an email to find out.

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Quoting: wintermute

Quoting: ScooptaI personally enjoy Proton for things like Skyrim which I've had since I was on Windows but I still try to stand by no tux no bucks as I think it's a bit of a slippery slope.

I personally enjoy playing games. I've been on Linux since 2007, I'm not going to only play Windows games released before then. Generally I buy Linux games I want to play on or around the day of release and Windows games I want to play when they're at least 50% off, so I guess my policy is "No Tux, Less Bux".

Which is a perfectly acceptable stance (especially for crazy-expensive games!). Pay a bit less if the developer isn't actually supporting Linux but Valve have provided an easy way for you to play it, while still showing the developer Linux sales.

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I shall continue to disagree there, I think the mash of styles they have here in their art, lighting and so on has a huge amount of character and expression to it. I welcome it, I can't wait to play it.

I hope more developers experiment with very different style together, as long as they work like this does and to me it really does.

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Quoting: stretch611I agree. If this site starts to comment on any title that works through Steam Play, it might as well remove the word "Linux" from the website name.

Okay, I said I wouldn't debate it further, but this really irked me something special.

We've covered all sorts of things for years including Wine and Emulators and no one complains about when we do. Yet Valve come along, improve things for us dramatically in a short time, enable us to show developers we're actually here and a thing.

It's being played on Linux, it's still very much Linux and as always, I cover what interests me and what I think others might also want to see. I can't please everyone, but saying we're basically no longer a Linux gaming site because we do this is utterly ridiculous.

Edit: Here's more food for your thoughts, on our PC Info survey (see stats here only about 6% of the 500+ people who did the Steam Play question said they wouldn't use it.

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We either cover Steam Play games the same way we cover "normal" games (both new and old) or we quickly become far less relevant to the future of Linux gaming (and anyone switching to Linux) and people will go elsewhere.

Steam Play is here and it's going to be the only way to play a lot of AAA titles (and plenty of bigger indies) on Linux. Some have a stance against it, others love it. We try to cater to both sides of the coin and that won't change.

If you don't like that, you really don't need to comment or read the article. I make it easy too, Steam Play as a tag is always shown first and coloured if it's a Steam Play related article.

Frankly, I'm not going to debate it any further as it will go in circles.

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Quoting: LinasI understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

It is a game, running on Linux. Buying with Steam Play shows the developer a Linux sale.

You say you understand the importance...yet you made this comment?

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Quoting: GuestLooks ugly, totally misses the point of pixel art.

To each their own, I love the style to it. There's no one single point to any art style, saying so would be quite an elitist attitude IMO.

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Update: v0.5.1.2 was also pushed out, to fix some issues with "custom Proton detection preventing Wine games from running".

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Quoting: PalantirJust found out your podcasts are available on Spotify. Added to the daily list :) Thank you for your work!

Awesome! I did send a request off to them but you don't get any feedback so I had no idea it was even live :)

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Quoting: Eike

PC Info is automatically purged if it hasn't been updated, or if you don't click the link to remain in for 2 years.

So I don't need to click every month, every year or so is enough, right?

Yup!

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