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CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 1:55 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: meracoWhy they need 10 years for D3D11?
I hate such a comments. But I will answer your question anyway.

Why?
1) First of all, DirectX11 was released in 2009. So it's been 7 years since the day of release.
2) When DirectX 11 was released, we did not even had correct support for DirectX 9 (previous major release, that most of the games and programs used to use). What's more - we still don't have golden support for DirectX 9 in Wine.
3) DirectX is not open-sourced, so develpers have to somehow achieve the same functionality as DirectX. According to wikipedia, Wine uses Black box testing. It is hard and time consuming. Even if some contributors decompile DirectX code, the code that is decompiled is hard to work with, because it is not the same code like the code that was written by the programmer - it is a decompiled version, that has not meaningful variable names, has some code optimizations that normally compiler does (developer does not have to write it explicitly), has no comments etc. And it is illegal in some cases.
4) All the programmers that code in Wine project are just a contributors - they have other jobs, it's not their primary job (Of course, there are a companies, like CodeWeavers, that have commercial interest in Wine evolution, so it's safe to assume that many contributors are paid / employed by this company, but in general Wine is developed by people who are not paid for it).

And even if it takes them 20 years, if they manage to achieve their goal, you should be thankful, because they do it for community (including you).

ARK: Survival Evolved gains a paid DLC while still being in Early Access, reviews are destroying it
11 Sep 2016 at 10:44 am UTC

Quoting: dubigrasuHm, judging from Xpander69's video it seems playable at around 55-65 FPS (without recording) and still looking rather good.
Unfortunately I have different opinion, it doesn't look good for me. The way person moves is horrible.
Anyway, it looks the game is really playable.

P.S. personally I have never tried it and I am not going to - afaik game requires daily attention.
I love the games that I can play whenever I want and as often as I want.

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 9:53 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlYep. Keep an eye on this changelog: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/history/HEAD:/dlls/d3d11/device.c [External Link]
I will, definitely. Of course thanks Shmerl for testing, I really admit work of both - active developers and all the community that gives feedback.

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 9:33 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlIt is fluent, and there is no lag.
Sounds promising. I have my hope in Wine team. Having DX11 support in Wine will be golden.

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 9:26 am UTC

@Shmerl Could you share video from the menu or share the picture with the fps in menu?
What's more - is in-menu control fluent? Is there an input lag?

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 9:16 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl(...)It looks different, but I suppose it's because PS4 version has different art.(...)
It's related to the in-game progress and number of DLC installed.
What's more your images show version 1.10 of the game which is pretty old I must say.

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
11 Sep 2016 at 9:08 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: wojtek88Is it correctly animated?
I'm not sure what is considered correct there (since I have nothing to compare to), but it is animated, yes. You can see sparks flying from the fire, branches moved by the wind and etc. There are no intro videos however or anything like that when you open the game, and some suggested they should be before the main menu screen.
I've uploaded for you a PS4 version. I understand that can differ a lot, but I don't have Windows version (and as you can guess, I don't have Windows at all :P).
Here is how Witcher 3 behaves from start to menu on PS4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYEDEE3zUZA [External Link]
P.S. I assume you are a polish native speaker as well ;)

A montage of an intense ranked 1on1 battle I did in Rocket League, amazing
11 Sep 2016 at 7:10 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: niarbehtI thought you Euro-people were supposed to be good at soccer?

:P
And we call it football, because you use foot to kick the ball. I have no idea why you call this rugby like game with this term...

CD PROJEKT RED replied to me about The Witcher 3 and Linux, flat-out denying to answer any questions
8 Sep 2016 at 8:03 pm UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: sbolokanovI saw you in the W3 wine bug thread some time ago, what is the state currently?
Thanks to some helpful folks, I got a GOG key to test it in Wine. It's unplayable now. If you overcome the 32GB virtual heap limit bug, the most you can get to is the initial menu:

Is it correctly animated?