I was tired of weak performance in two wine games (WoW and PoE) I play and installed window$ to check them out natively. Haven't touched the system outside of work since 2014. I can't help but to think I might keep dual booting for games. The performance is so much better for my weak and old notebook... :-(

Wine is great but it still has a long way to go. Using Lutris with DXVK, I get only 50~80% of windows performance in PoE and WoW, which is a costly trade for my Nvidia 840m notebook I'm not sure I'll keep accepting.

On native games, such as Dota 2 or factorio, there's no performance discrepancy, so I will keep gaming those under Linux for sure.

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The environment sure looks gorgeous, but I felt some lack of diversity. The same fireball spell was showcased multiple times, as were the same enemies. Sure, the release date is said to be 'late 2020' but is one year all this game needs to be done? From the 15 supposed classes they showed us only 5.

Looks to have a nice mix of tactics, turn based combat with real-time dungeon crawling. Aesthetically it looks amazing.

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Quoting: JoshuaAshton

Quoting: khalismurTravelling by carriage does not work

I literally touch nothing that could do this. I had a friend check this out and it works for him. Definitely not my issue, has to be a game bug or a mod you have installed.

Sorry, apparently the carriage problem is not related to D9VK, you are right.

Thanks a lot for your work into this!

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Quoting: khalismurHow can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim

After some testing, I see Skyrim is somewhat broken with D9VK. Travelling by carriage does not work among other problems. Performance is better though...

EDIT: Apparently the problem was something else, my bad.

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Quoting: iwantlinuxgames

Quoting: khalismurHow can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim

download and extract the latest D9VK archive and extract it.
then perform the following commands in a terminal:

cd d9vk-0.12/

WINEPREFIX=$PATH_TO_STEAM_LIBRAY_LOCATION/steamapps/compatdata/$STEAM_APP_ID/pfx/ ./setup_dxvk.sh install

this will install d9vk into that game's specific proton prefix...running setup_dxvk.sh uninstall will revert the changes....

note that some games under proton with d9vk may exhibit behaviour that may or may not be experienced using vanilla wine/wine-staging....

Cheers for the information man!

I'd read the github page but was unsure if I could simply follow the instructions there using the wineprefix created by Proton. Thanks a lot!

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How can you use D9VK with Proton? I'd like to compare proton Skyrim vs D9VK Skyrim

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Quoting: ThormackDoes Skyrim uses DX9?

The original Skyrim yes. Special Edition is DX11 I believe.

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Never managed to get Armello running properly. It really looks like a nice game, I bought it even twice. Once it didn't work at all (didn't launch), got refunded. Later on, I read Linux issues were fixed so I bought it again... then the Steam Controller didn't work despite the game being advertised as fully compatible. Sadly had to refund it as well; Wish I could play it :(

Very tempted to get Slay the Spire, thanks for the head-up!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: khalismurOh man they could have been a bit more creative :S: This looks like an unprofessional copy of Factorio. Hopefully things will improve and the game will have its own identity, as I usually enjoy this kind of play style.

It plays nothing like Factorio. Factorio is all about automation, this is a base defence game primarily like a great many other strategy games.

Ah I see, glad to know that it plays differently then. But it looks very much like a Factorio in 3D.

On a side note, since Factorio updated to 0.17.x bitters are somewhat more challenging and I enjoy also playing with enemies expansion and evolution set to high, so maybe that's why it seemed more similar to me. But you are right, Factorio is mostly about automation. So much that many folks even turn off enemies completely!

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Oh man they could have been a bit more creative :S: This looks like an unprofessional copy of Factorio. Hopefully things will improve and the game will have its own identity, as I usually enjoy this kind of play style.

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