FYI, I'm a graphics developer, and indeed I have worked on AAA games. My comment was of course a little exagerated (for the sake of funniness), but my point is that for Stadia, they have a Vulkan-only rendering path. They can try that out on windows (even if on a single gpu, and not on linux), then condition that path to wine. It would be proton's problem to deal with issues (like dxvk already does for many titles), which would have probably been much simpler to make d3d12-vulkan interop work.

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You would think Valve could have just nicely asked them to use their Vulkan-only path if they detected wine, and let proton deal with potential issues.

Would have taken probably one hour for the develpers to add an 'if (wine)' in the code.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: EikeDoes that mean there's no such thing as WaitMultipleObjects on Linux? How would a Linux programmer solve that?

$ man poll
$ man select
That's your answer.

I don't know what is the issue with wine, but I guess that their problem may be related to fd (but is mentioned as secondary improvement, so I'm not sure...)

And more recently, epoll. I don't know what their problem with fds are, but everything being an fd is the best thing to have happened to unix. Things that weren't an fd turned out to be the most problematic (pid, signals), and they are turning into fds in recent Linuxes too.

Maybe they can get windows-y programs to run faster with windows-y kernel features, but I certainly hope no one would use this feature outside wine.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ZlopezI'm happy about seeing the Wasteland 3 to have Linux support, but I'm sad that this will be probably last inXile game with it. It's another loss for Linux gaming community.

I won't bet, but I'm not sure about this. Microsoft probably doesn't care much about Linux gaming, we're under the radar.

Valve ported one of their games to Linux in 2013 and wrote a blog post about how it became faster than windows with so little time optimizing it, and got microsoft knocking on their door, and took directx out of life support.

I won't exactly call us under the radar.

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Quoting: GBeeYeah, my current laptop is high-end Dell. Honestly if a Ryzen based XPS comes to market it will be an instant purchase for me - even with the Windows tax.

There is some law I think (maybe just europe, maybe elsewhere too), that if you don't want windows and they don't offer a version without it, you can get them to refund the windows tax.

Maybe look into that!

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@collabora, ANGLE has es3 supported on ARM through Vulkan + es31 pending upcoming Vulkan features.

Maybe don't waste your time? Contribute to desktop GL support in ANGLE, and everyone would benefit instead.

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Whatever happened to mrdeathjr?

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Quoting: ageres

The developer quickly changed the asset name but there's another problem, as Steam won't update just because file case changed.

Does that mean that Steam servers run on Windows?

Probably more that their diff tool uses case-insensitive path compares unconditionally (instead of on stupid platforms only)

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I installed it on my under-tv pc a month ago, works quite nicely!

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Ok, I'm not surprised he's the same d*ck he always was, but it's not very clear still. Is all his money in a charity fund? Or does he just donate as much as he would have otherwise had to pay in taxes?

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