Well... not for me.

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I do use ecosia most of the time, obviously this other very well-known search engine married the devil ages ago.

Have fun installing DXVK!

PS: I could really advice to start to think about what you do with your computer and why - one the one hand it will make your life much more easier, on the other hand you learn something about the system you use.

Also, there are many Wikis and tutorials, in addition, you can check what a command does with...

 man COMMAND

By the way, the best Ubuntu-Wiki I know is by Ubuntuusers.de - it's in German but I never found a better one.

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Quoting: adamhmOlder/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made [...]

Thanks dude! I did not use your scripts yet but I had a look at them and they're pretty clean, straight forward but at the same time very advanced. I wrote some Wine-Prefix-Installer-Scripts myself, those always assume I already installed wine of the targeted system as well as other dependencies (since I got perfect control over these).

Nevertheless, did you consider to upgrade your scripts to make use of DXVK wherever it will benefit in better compatibility / performance in the future?

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThere is a Lutris script, for example for Battlefield 4.

On the other hand I don't get why people claim it's hard to install DXVK. It's actually, as mentioned before, pretty easy. Create a Wine Prefix and either install DXVK via script in that or just copy over the two DLLs. Nothing hard about that.

You just can't say that's easy. For any average Windows user for whom everything has always been just a double click away this can be a show stopper. Even for me that's not easy, I consider myself an advanced user as I used to handle Windows very well and have managed to game on Linux for more than 2 years now.

But when you say "create a Wine Prefix" I know that will require me to search the Web to find out how to do it, it'll most likely take me half an hour or more to understand and do that. Then I'll have to install DXVK via script, which again is not easier than a double click, and then again copy 2 DLLs and put them in a probably hidden folder.

Maybe you're in there for so long that you don't see why people claim some things are hard to do in Linux ^_^

Oh lord, please don't get me wrong, this message is not exactly targeted at you or someone specific, but as mentioned before it's easy. It will take you less than a minute. And if you consider yourself an advanced windows user, you should have knowledge about the cmd / power shell, thus not being afraid of the terminal. Even if you google for "How to create a wine prefix." the first result will already tell you. This will take you 5 minutes of googling on how to create one and maybe 5 more on how to make use of it.

Assuming you use a debian based distro (Debian, Ubuntu, some more...) open a terminal (CRTL + T) you could do it like this:

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK

1. Create Wine-Prefix (64bit / x64 in this case)
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot

Note: The prefix is named "dxvk" like this. You could name it however you so desire.

2. Download dxvk-Release (0.42 in this case)
wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz

3. Extract the archive and change into the x64 directory
tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/

4. Install dxvk in your desired Wineprefix
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

At this point you are already done. Now you can execute e.g. .exe-files in this prefix:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine BLAHBLAH.exe

If you don't want to type the prefix in all the time, just do:
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk"

...and as long as the terminal is open you will always refer to this prefix.

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK in one command
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot && wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/ && WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

...which will only take a few seconds.

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There is a Lutris script, for example for Battlefield 4.

On the other hand I don't get why people claim it's hard to install DXVK. It's actually, as mentioned before, pretty easy. Create a Wine Prefix and either install DXVK via script in that or just copy over the two DLLs. Nothing hard about that.

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The very mixed reviews seem to hold me back to still wait for a sale. Maybe they will get better when the update is released and I might buy the game instant.

I'm still not sure of those are justified, but sometimes even player with 50+ hours seem not to be happy. Mhh...

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I think the situation is not that different here in Germany: people/companies use Linux for servers & in scientific environments - period.

Of course I know a few other people using Linux, usually they don't play games. The only exception I know are other computer science students.

Even though I tried to convince my friends to switch, it's not happening. I wonder why, they're already a little older and don't care too much about gaming anymore anyway. The only exception would maybe be my sister, she's fine with gaming and Linux since I made it the default OS at home - even though I moved out a decade ago. (;

In other words: Linux gaming has come a long way but still has a long one to go, if it want to be successful. It has to be as wide-spread and easy as on Windows. Well, Steam does exactly that. Still we have a lack of AAA games. Even though Feral ports a lot of games, many major publishers (which I don't care about anymore) do ignore us.

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Is there a way of donating him a few bugs to keep motivation up and show my appreciation?

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Does DXGI Gamma Control functions which are needed for Battlefield 3 also fix the broken shader issues with Battlefield 4?

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So this is still NOT on 7 nm? Will the next GPUs be? When will we get Raven Ridge 7 nm GPU + CPU? Waiting for this, I guess I won't need my RX 480 then anymore, even though I might lack a bit of performance. :D

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