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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Valve have now pushed out all the recent beta changes in Steam Play's Proton to everyone
13 Sep 2018 at 8:55 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Valve must now consider all the changes stable enough, as Proton 3.7-6 is now the only option.
Looks like there is 3.7-6 Beta again (Not to be confused with the old 3.7-6 Beta, before Proton37_3 came and went. LOL!)
Yeah, they literally just did that. Updated the text to be clear on that now.

Valve have now pushed out all the recent beta changes in Steam Play's Proton to everyone
13 Sep 2018 at 8:31 pm UTC Likes: 33

Quoting: GuestI just want voices and music in Skyrim Special Edition....
I believe FAudio will fix that, which Ethan Lee is working on. Let's hope Valve hire him, full speed ahead number 1!

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is now officially available on Linux
13 Sep 2018 at 7:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Added some initial thoughts, runs like a dream. Feral did a fantastic job on it so it seems.

Forsaken Remastered adds Vulkan support to the Linux version
13 Sep 2018 at 11:59 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: MayeulC
for some reason on Ubuntu 18.04 Forsaken Remastered wants to use the system installed SDL (instead of the Steam runtime) which causes Vulkan in the game not to work
Meanwhile, you could try to run steam with
STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steam
It just has to do with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH order, that was changed a while back (the current default is 1). Steam should probably get involved a bit more, and could even provide its own loader, I think.

Thanks Icculus!
While there's no doubt other things people can tinker with, the point is we shouldn't need to :)

Game porter Ethan Lee gives his thoughts on Valve's Steam Play and Proton
12 Sep 2018 at 8:02 pm UTC Likes: 16

Hmmm. https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1039966308887158784 [External Link] "Just got off the phone... word spreads fast!" - did I just help someone land a job? One can hope.

Also https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1039968072587722752 [External Link] "No promises yet, we'll see what happens..."

Exciting.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil is now officially available on Linux, more coming from Icculus
12 Sep 2018 at 2:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: edoI tough he wasn't porting games anymore, since he was focused on SDL2 and stuff.
I imagine some of that is in his time between ports :)

An interview with the developer of DXVK, part of what makes Valve's Steam Play tick
12 Sep 2018 at 12:37 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Beamboom
There are some things that I probably wouldn't have done without them requesting it, such as adding OpenVR support or focusing on certain games early on
Who were those games? Dude, Liam, you should have followed up that lead with a question on WHAT games Valve wanted him to focus on? That'd be really exciting to hear!

Can we now hope for... Fallout 4? Surely that must be the game they asked him to give focus? :)
Yeah yeah, hindsight is a great thing isn't it. Besides, I wouldn't want to remove the fun of seeing you guess ;)

Linux will get another fighting game with Super Combat Fighter currently on Kickstarter
12 Sep 2018 at 9:28 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: wojtek88I would say that there is a lot of good fighting games on Linux now :)
- (Official) Tekken 7
- Ultra Street Fighter IV
- Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
- Mortal Kombat X
:)
I'm talking about native games here of course, not Steam Play which isn't even officially out yet since it's still in beta and under heavy development.

An interview with the developer of DXVK, part of what makes Valve's Steam Play tick
11 Sep 2018 at 9:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: jarhead_h
Quoting: YoRHa-2B
Quoting: EndeavourAccuracyUnless I'm mistaken, Beat Saber uses DirectX and OpenVR (for Vive), which means DXVK is part of what allows me to play the game on Linux with Proton. I'm quite happy with Valve's request and your work.
Yep, Beat Saber uses the DXVK+OpenVR combo. It was the game for me to work with, and it was a pain to get it to work because of how VR initialization works. In case of Vulkan, you need to enable certain device and instance extensions, which basically requires initialization to happen in a specific order, but D3D11 doesn't have *any* restrictions on that, so a lot of trickery was required to get it to work.
I don't know who you are exactly, but whatever part you had in this THANK YOU. This may just seem like just a game thing, but that game thing will open up the world to a future without being dependent on any big tech giant like Microsoft or Apple. We cannot thank any of you enough for that.
Psst, he's the creator of DXVK ;)

Even though INSOMNIA: The Ark is delayed for Linux, the developer sounds committed to a Linux version
11 Sep 2018 at 8:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Alm888
Quoting: liamdawe…their comment about Steam Play is interesting too…
Yeah, definitely! They promised DRM-free version! Now what? Will they bundle Proton™ with their game for us? Well, "temporary solution" my a$$!

Sadly, some of the worst forecasts regarding Proton™ are already materializing. :'(
I'm glad I didn't back them back then. :><:
I think you're reading something that isn't there. They are making a Linux version, plain and simply.

They were generalising about Steam Play being a temp thing *until* we get more games.