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Wine allowed me to re-live a gaming experience I had from when I was a child on Linux
7 Nov 2016 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 2
There's rarely a game that I tried recently that didn't worked with Wine. Now, depends also on what "newer games" means, but at this point anything with a DX9/GL renderer has a very good chance to work with Wine.
What gives Wine its "it doesn't work" label are of course the exceptions, and when you bump into one of these game that you desperately want to play (and the damn game doesn't work) is hard to have a good impression about Wine. With enough bad luck, repeat this experience few times and that's it, probably you'll never try Wine again and the bad impression about it is definitive. It resembles what you often hear in various places about Linux itself; "I've tried Linux and it doesn't work".
7 Nov 2016 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: KimyrielleI do agree that WINE is an awesome piece of software and I have nothing but respect for the developers who put so many hours in it. However, I also do not see as as a viable means to get recent games to run in Linux. Honestly, as great as WINE is, but there is barely ANY newer game that just runs in WINE, like that. Either the game will require some serious tinkering to get to run, or it will have more or less serious issues, or both. Let's just say the "Platinum" list on WINE-HQ is rather short for a reason. I rather dual-boot than try running newer games in WINE. It doesn't matter anyway - in both instances I am playing a Windows copy counting as a Windows sale. But one works reliable, the other does not.Provided you have a powerful enough machine to compensate for the overhead, most of the newer games are working very well and without much fuss especially with the newer versions of Wine (1.9+).
For older games - completely agree. These games won't otherwise be ported and usually DO run in WINE with minimal hassle.
There's rarely a game that I tried recently that didn't worked with Wine. Now, depends also on what "newer games" means, but at this point anything with a DX9/GL renderer has a very good chance to work with Wine.
What gives Wine its "it doesn't work" label are of course the exceptions, and when you bump into one of these game that you desperately want to play (and the damn game doesn't work) is hard to have a good impression about Wine. With enough bad luck, repeat this experience few times and that's it, probably you'll never try Wine again and the bad impression about it is definitive. It resembles what you often hear in various places about Linux itself; "I've tried Linux and it doesn't work".
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
3 Nov 2016 at 6:38 pm UTC
3 Nov 2016 at 6:38 pm UTC
Quoting: edddeduckferal"dubigrasu looking incredulous but refraining to say anything"Quoting: dubigrasuWell, I'm not quite convinced, but since my knowledge is null about game development I'll go with that. Thank you (and thanks for all your ports btw).All I can say is it's the rule we've followed for 20 years now :)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
3 Nov 2016 at 6:23 pm UTC
3 Nov 2016 at 6:23 pm UTC
Quoting: edddeduckferalWell, I'm not quite convinced, but since my knowledge is null about game development I'll go with that. Thank you (and thanks for all your ports btw).Quoting: dubigrasuI wonder why initially Feral avoided answering if Vulkan is used or not for this title.We never discuss technical details before release. It's the same for every title we aren't hiding anything we just never comment until we're ready.
Was it a Vulkan version in the works and it didn't pan out?
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
3 Nov 2016 at 6:11 pm UTC
3 Nov 2016 at 6:11 pm UTC
I wonder why initially Feral avoided answering if Vulkan is used or not for this title.
Was it a Vulkan version in the works and it didn't pan out?
Was it a Vulkan version in the works and it didn't pan out?
Some thoughts on ‘Sky Break’, the futuristic open-world game that wasn’t all that great
1 Nov 2016 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
1 Nov 2016 at 1:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
It used to be rather interesting in early stages, it had a very cool plasma/whatever sword that made the combat challenging enough to keep you motivated (if the rest of the game didn't). Later on it was replaced with some boring gun (and the sword itself totally removed from the game).
I doubt that the sword would've saved the game, but that damn sword was the only reason I bought the game while in EA. Without it (at least for me) the game feels useless.
I doubt that the sword would've saved the game, but that damn sword was the only reason I bought the game while in EA. Without it (at least for me) the game feels useless.
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1 Nov 2016 at 7:52 am UTC Likes: 2
Why would I buy a Steam Controller in the first place only to transform it in a Xbox controller?
1 Nov 2016 at 7:52 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: ElectricPrismThe right & left pads should have been unscrewable to replace with joysticks.Look, replacing the pads will results in ending up with something similar with a PS3/4/XBox/etc controller, and we already have that.
Why would I buy a Steam Controller in the first place only to transform it in a Xbox controller?
Black Mesa, the very popular fan-made recreation of Half-Life is now on Linux in beta
28 Oct 2016 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 4
28 Oct 2016 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 4
And the price went down to 7,99€, go get it :)
Black Mesa, the very popular fan-made recreation of Half-Life is now on Linux in beta
28 Oct 2016 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 6
28 Oct 2016 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 6
Using Nvidia's NVENC with OBS Studio makes Linux game recording really great
27 Oct 2016 at 7:47 pm UTC
You can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
27 Oct 2016 at 7:47 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdaweYeah, I've heard that too initially. There were some reports about them overheating and being too noisy, but is not true (or it was with initial models?). Is an excellent card, I am using it extensively for a while now and never had any problem with it. As for the image quality that it can provide there's nothing coming close to it in its category.Quoting: dubigrasuHeh, I've heard the opposite, seen a fair amount of complaints about not just the experience with them on Linux, but the build quality of their cards is apparently bad.Quoting: liamdawe....Both of which are a bit iffy under Linux with hardware support.I guess it depends on what card you're thinking about. My only experience with such cards is with a Blackmagic card that can be used both internally or externally without any performance penalties, and its software/hardware support is excellent.
You can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
Using Nvidia's NVENC with OBS Studio makes Linux game recording really great
27 Oct 2016 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 2
27 Oct 2016 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: liamdawe....Both of which are a bit iffy under Linux with hardware support.I guess it depends on what card you're thinking about. My only experience with such cards is with a Blackmagic card that can be used both internally or externally without any performance penalties, and its software/hardware support is excellent.
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