Patreon Logo Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal Logo PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.
Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
DXVK 1.0.1 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 with Wine
15 Mar 2019 at 3:46 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: massatt212
Quoting: YoRHa-2B
Quoting: PatolaSo, Philip is better now?
Yes, but that's not really what should be discussed here.

Quoting: massatt212cause when i told him use a crack copy of Tekken 7 to fix it, he banned me from his github
I banned you from my github because a) I do not tolerate promotion of piracy, and b) that wasn't even your first or only offense.
So where my offences other than the crack ?
Please take any issues you have like this elsewhere, this is not the place to debate it.

Valve announces new networking APIs for developers and Steam Link Anywhere
14 Mar 2019 at 7:21 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: MohandevirDo you smell it? Could this be the scent of a Steam streaming service? :)
You mean like the one I said Valve would do :P

Seems like there's no hope for BattlEye support within Steam Play
13 Mar 2019 at 6:37 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestSteam should add a red flag to games using something like BattlEye. In the case of Conan Exiles I can at least avoid BattlEye and still use the game that I paid for!
I actually mentioned something similar more than once in articles before, that Valve need to have the anti-cheat noted on store pages to fully inform buyers.

Seems like there's no hope for BattlEye support within Steam Play
13 Mar 2019 at 11:48 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Aimela
Titles like DayZ, Conan Exiles, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS and many others are likely to never be playable on Linux with Steam Play.
I'm not sure about the others, but Conan Exiles allows you to play the game without BattleEye through an option shown before the game is launched. You won't be able to get on most servers(particularly the official ones), but single-player and co-op with friends will still be available
Ah, interesting, bad example in that case. Have done a slight adjustment on the text, good tip.

Seems like there's no hope for BattlEye support within Steam Play
13 Mar 2019 at 11:46 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: rea987That's odd, BattlEye previously supported Arma III which was an eON port. It looks like VP's ports are compatible with BattlEye than Proton.
This is because VP used the native BattlEye.

Humble Strategy Bundle 2019 is out and it's another good choice for Linux players
12 Mar 2019 at 11:26 pm UTC

Quoting: scratchinice, thanks for the heads up! hope ashes comes to linux soon. and i also hope the 76 cents tip to gol from my 1 dollar purchase goes a long way :D
It really does, so thanks to you and everyone else who keeps the tip on :)

Ryan Gordon is re-working "sdl12-compat", a tool to provide SDL2 to software using SDL1.2
12 Mar 2019 at 11:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: rea987Well, there's already SDLCL that's exactly do it.

https://github.com/MrAlert/sdlcl [External Link]

I'm using it daily to force ETQW, Prey (2006) and UT2k4 to use SDL2.
I've no doubt Mr Gordon is aware of this, there will likely be enough differences to warrant a new project. After all, Mr Gordon is one of the main SDL people...

Ryan Gordon is re-working "sdl12-compat", a tool to provide SDL2 to software using SDL1.2
12 Mar 2019 at 10:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: dubigrasuA "Half Life 3" folder on his desktop :)
That little 2-second reveal was just a little bit too convenient if you ask me.
Well, yeah :P

Ryan Gordon is re-working "sdl12-compat", a tool to provide SDL2 to software using SDL1.2
12 Mar 2019 at 8:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI'm a bit confused most likely because I'm very uneducated if it comes to SDL ^^"
Why is there any need for a compat tool? If I look up my package manager (YaST - Software Management) I can still install SLD 1.2 for older applications.
SDL1.2 hasn't been actively maintained for a long time, eventually with the switch over to Wayland and so on software using SDL1.2 might not even work.

Everything moves on, SDL2 for example has vastly better multi-monitor support, which is incredibly painful on SDL1.2 (and yes, some games do still use it - One Hour One Life for example).

Humble Strategy Bundle 2019 is out and it's another good choice for Linux players
12 Mar 2019 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Alm888"Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (coming to Linux)" The Witcher III and Street Fighter V style. Yeah, sure. :S:
TW3 only ever had those random banners on Steam, which neither the developer or Valve ever actually spoke of again, except to deny it all.

Street Fighter V had that one announcement.

Stardock have repeatedly talked about Ashes progress, the latest being this month [External Link]:
So good news, we are running on Linux. Bad news, working on Vulkan performance and with AMD/NVIDIA. Stay tuned.