Nice read! I guess there's a market to automate software update distribution between stores and APIs. Perhaps there are such software that I am not aware.

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Well, it is great indeed, but Quake 2 isn't so demanding to begin with. In fact, OpenGL based source ports like Yamagi Quake II limits framerate to a certain level as default to not to overuse CPU/GPU. Though, vkDOOM3 looks promising, yet it also isn't available for Linux at the moment...

https://github.com/DustinHLand/vkDOOM3 [External Link]

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Quoting: poke86Thanks for the tip, I was restarting from a quicksave maybe that was it.

As far as I understand, public-beta branch pushes tweaked versions of those 2 problematic maps. Loading a quicksave most probably loads the old version of the map. I can confirm loading chopper section from a quicksave reproduces the crash while restarting the map with following command loads the new map which works just fine.

map bm_c2a5g 

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Quoting: poke86Dammit I uninstalled the game just last week because of a recurring crash... Guess I need to try again, hooray for broadband!

Quoting: MayeulCDid they fix the crash [External Link] that required moving the bodies around a chopper before blowing up the tank truck? This was quite annoying, although I didn't test in a long time...

Test chamber and chopper crash have already been solved in public-beta branch. You need to restart the map FYI.

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Linux/Mac installer links are still available. Though, they will certainly stop working when new updates kick in if not already...

http://dl.heroesofnewerth.com/installers/linux/HoNClient.sh [External Link]
http://dl.heroesofnewerth.com/installers/mac/HoNClient.dmg [External Link]

https://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?609848-mac-downloand-does-not-work&s=340559d4357545308e6649b714680ba7&p=16651053&viewfull=1#post16651053 [External Link]

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: GuestAs rea987 mentions, Battleye runs natively on Linux and Arma 3 runs via eON. Bohemia could do the same type of port if they wanted using Proton or Wine so as long as Proton or Wine runs Arma 3 well which I'm not sure as I haven't looked. It would just take some collaboration with the folks at Battleye I'd imagine.

eON does not use the source code, only a Windows binary. There's no way to get the Linux version compiled in there. Since BattlEye should catch any kind of tampering, I'm wondering how VP managed this.

Here, "Linux Bin" depots of Arma 3 from public and development branches:

https://steamdb.info/depot/249507/ [External Link]
https://steamdb.info/depot/249507/ [External Link]

As you see, BEClient_x64.so and BEServer_x64.so are natively available. You do not need to include BattlEye in eON builds, it simply works alongside with it.

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Quoting: EhvisSo how would eON do that? Seeing as that effectively wraps the Windows binary as well.

BattlEye is available for Linux. Most probably VP's eON handles the game and Linux version of BattlEye works alongside with the game. Here is the Linux depot of Insurgency which is a Linux game that use BattlEye:

https://steamdb.info/depot/222884/ [External Link]

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Swedish metal band At The Gates? Oh, wrong forum, never mind...

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Naming choice is a bit interesting. Cause, another id Tech 1 (Doom engine) game The Original Strife: Veteran Edition [External Link] used to be called Strife: Quest for the Sigil. I guess that's just a coincidence but peculiar indeed.

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Quoting: LeopardWell,if you had free space less than 10 gb that happens. At least that is what happened to me

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5861 [External Link]

I have 17 gb space available space and my Proton games are kept being added to update list for couple KB of updates every time I restart Steam client. Weird.

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