Quoting: lejimsterWhen Vulkan was originally announced I was really happy to see it come to Apple and Linux. With Apple Mac having a larger market share (gamer wise) as of right now, it seemed a great thing. Then they had to go their own way with Metal. I just don't understand the thinking, they have made it harder to bring more games to their platform and potentially set Vulkan adoption back at the same time.

So this is a good development, and I hope porters/developers just target Vulkan from now on and ignore Metal as much as possible. I wonder what Feral think of this, since they have been working on bringing titles to Apple with Metal support.

Quoting: [email protected]Omg, that's game is what I was looking for since Sonic all star racing transformer doesn't have a Linus version.

Quoting: adamhm

Spoiler, click me

[users-only]Here's a key for The Witcher Enhanced Edition for whoever's fastest:

echo VGhlIFdpdGNoZXI6IGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmdvZy5jb20vcmVkZWVtL0NBTlg4Q1FVOFhUU0xXTkIK | base64 -d

It's been sitting out in the open on GOG's forums for ages but I guess everyone there has it by now.[/users-only]

Quoting: GustyGhostDo your scripts remain entirely contained? i.e. WINE does not take a giant shit on the filesystem/DE settings/libraries?

They are prevented from polluting the system's menus and linking the user directories ("My Documents" etc) over, and nothing is installed system-wide by them. You can even put them on a USB drive or so and run them from that (which I often do when testing them on my other systems).

Quoting: GustyGhostEven still, the only way I would try a community WINE wrap is if said game is absolutely gratis. I don't want any money going to tyrant developers.

"Tyrant developers"? I hope you don't tolerate the use of DRM either, as that's *way* more "tyrannical" behavior...

Anyway there are tons of great games that will never see a native Linux release & would be a shame to miss out on. My approach is to only buy Windows games that are old & deeply discounted/cheap enough that a Linux port is likely to never happen and only if they're DRM-free. Full/high price purchase = must support Linux + DRM-free[

Quoting: adamhm

Spoiler, click me

Reposting here as it's still relevant (and I updated all of my wrappers recently):

Older/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made Wine wrappers [External Link] for:

Crysis [External Link]
Crysis Warhead [External Link]
Deadly Premonition [External Link]
Deus Ex GOTY Edition [External Link] (flash deal)
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition [External Link]
Freedom Force [External Link]
Freedom Force vs the Third Reich [External Link]
Hitman: Codename 47 [External Link]
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin [External Link]
Hitman 3: Contracts [External Link]
Jade Empire: Special Edition [External Link]
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection [External Link]
Mafia [External Link]
Mirror's Edge [External Link]
The Saboteur [External Link]
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition [External Link]
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl [External Link] (flash deal)
STALKER: Clear Sky [External Link]
STALKER: Call of Pripyat [External Link]
System Shock: Enhanced Edition [External Link]
System Shock 2 [External Link]
Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico [External Link]
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition [External Link]

The flash deals seem to be repeating fairly regularly so if you want Deus Ex or STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl you probably won't have to wait too long before they show up again

Quoting: Shmerl

Spoiler, click me

Just got the game, and it's barely working. It says "press interact to talk". I'm pressing F. Nothing happens. No idea how to get into the ship even.

UPDATE: It suddenly reacted on F. Digitally generated voice is a cool option to save on voice acting :) Still no idea how to enter the spaceship.

UPDATE2: Apparently you need to buy a ship first, and I think I found it outside the hangar. But then the character got stuck, and I exited the game and started it back. The ship wasn't there anymore.

UPDATE3: The ship appeared back, but there is no apparent way to enter it. This game is seriously pre-alpha :)