Quoting: dannielloMost ratings are off, actually.

In fact, there are games that are reported as Gold / Platinum when they should be silver (they have functionality that doesn't work and cannot be fixed).

Protondb should probably give the user a more fine-grained questionary, and then calculate the final rating itself. The questions should have concrete answers; like: does the controller work? how much fps do you get at what settings?, etc.

Currently, some users put relevant info like that in their commentary; but it has absolutely no effect on the overall score. The overall score should reveal something about the level of support the game has; though currently it's just an average of what people felt like clicking when they were filling in the form, sort of.

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Quoting: 14There is a solution to Ubisoft. It's called PS4. IMO, it's worth it if that's the last thing holding you to Windows.

I *did* have a PS4 briefly, so I'm familiar with the advantages (and the disadvantages) of having such a device. When my current graphics card no longer 'cuts it' (gtx970 -- it's keeping up remarkably well at 1080p), I'll have to decide between upgrading it, or getting a playstation.

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Quoting: mylkacyberpunk hopefully works like witcher 3

I hope it runs on vulkan; we'd then get near native performance. (I should mention, though, that apart from some stuttering, I get about the same performance for TW3 under dxvk, that I'm getting under native windoze. -- that's at 1080p/60fps; I'm sure it wouldn't scale so nicely at higher resolutions.)

i am curious which games will work in the future and if developers already adjust their games to work with proton at least.... especially ubisoft

As soon as we have a solution for uplay under wine, I'm nuking my windoze partition. I'm not terribly hopeful, though. For every fix, there's an upcoming uplay update to break it. Also, the drm isn't the only problem with their titles.

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Quoting: anarchist_tomatoCool. Have they fixed the tearing yet, or are they sorting out the important stuff, like making sure the armpit hair in Hitman has the right level of PhysX glisten?

When Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out on 'PC' (haha), I wouldn't be surprised if nvidia puts out a video about the realistic sway of the horses' balls, and the immaculate ambient occlusion along the seam of the scrotum.

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I really hope that Otherside does well. I'm not interested in this game, but I'm looking forward to System Shock 3.

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Quoting: GuestAnd he doesn't seem to have much Unix knowledge judging by the questions he asks so Linux is probably not even on his radar.

Wasn't this the guy who was beflustered by such arcane Linux commands as 'sudo apt-get install'? Or was that someone else? I remember some game dev complaining about 'sudo apt-get'.

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: wvstolzingSome kind of overhaul is in the works; but it remains to be seen whether it'll be an improvement or not. There are some discouraging mockups that look like pages out of glossy, ad-filled bullshit lifestyle magazines. It looks like there's going to be ample HTML5 abuse as well, with gigantic images sliding in and out from all corners all the time. Of course, that's how a modern website is 'supposed to' look....

Do you still have links to these mockups?

I'm really not sure whether this is the one I seem to remember, but here's something about a client ui update from early 2017:

steamdb finds UI leak, later deleted by valve [External Link]
This is from kotaku; but I'm linking it only because steamdb hosts the original images on github, where they aren't as convenient to browse.

Also in July 2017, GoL reported this:
from a Valve presentation in June 2017

It might well be a fabricated memory, entrenched somehow by my dislike for the new GOG storefront, and the absurd look of the new Epic store.

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Quoting: CreakTalking about Steam, wasn't there a an overhaul of the interface going on? Because, as I praise Valve every day for supporting Linux, their Steam UX is awfully bad IMO.

Some kind of overhaul is in the works; but it remains to be seen whether it'll be an improvement or not. There are some discouraging mockups that look like pages out of glossy, ad-filled bullshit lifestyle magazines. It looks like there's going to be ample HTML5 abuse as well, with gigantic images sliding in and out from all corners all the time. Of course, that's how a modern website is 'supposed to' look....

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Quoting: KlausAs such I am rather scared about the long term influence on the quality of the games.

It's not like AAA publishers aren't already infected by such permanent monetization models. I'd say that there's no need to be scared about such a future -- but only because it's already the present reality.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Most likely The switch which is funny because that runs a bespoke version of linux as its os

Epic's usage of 'open platform' *probably* means something like 'platform that allows running 3rd party executables acquired from some independent source' -- so, it's a way of saying 'everything but the consoles'.

By the way the Switch runs on the FreeBSD kernel (like the PS4), it's not a version of Linux.

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