Seriously, though, 'Flushing Point' can only point at Conker's Bad Fur Day [External Link].

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haha! what was the joke... ok I remember

TOTAL WAR: Flushing Point -- amirite!

... what do you mean it's stale by now?

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Quoting: ziabiceI'm very curious: anyone here has experienced running WINE on Android and ARM processor? Yes, I'm thinking about running games on my smartphone.

There's a commercial closed-source x86 emulator on ARM; their claims as to what they make available on the RPi are a little exaggerated(?!), though this is what the MagPi magazine has to say in a review of the 'product' -- including what they were able to get running via wine: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/exagear-desktop-raspberry-pi-3-review/ [External Link]

x86 emulators on ARM are just starting to take off, though (to intel's chagrin); so the available options will likely change in the next few years.

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No 'connect' games this time though; that's a bummer. I wish I could transfer my entire steam catalogue to GOG.

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Quoting: ziabiceBig question: the Steam Controller is on sale too, I never used a gamepad in my life and a lot of games I own needs one, should I buy it or the Logitech F310? I want a plug'n'play experience with Steam, Proton and/or Wine, and Gog.

Thanks in advance for the advices! ;)

I'm happy with my F310; it's cheap & simple, not as good as a DS4, but it gets the job done. (I used to be KB/M only before getting a PS4; so these two are my only references.)

I've had a little difficulty getting it recognized in a couple of games over *streaming*, though (e.g. Assassin's Creed II). No issues (special settings etc.) with Wine.

(Streaming via Moonlight, that is. I don't remember Steam streaming causing an issue.)

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Speaking about Half Life -- if there's anyone who hasn't yet played the two Portal games, they're also at 80% off (they're at $2 each). VERY highly recommended.

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In totally unrelated news, I've just realized that Exapunks is now on GOG too. No discount though (there's a 'black friday' sale over there as well).

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Quoting: MerpIf you wanna try out something similar but with a Raspberry Pi, check out this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/9q580m/streaming_games_from_you_pc_to_you_pi_nivida_only/ [External Link]

Another thing to try might be running Android on an RPi 3 B+ (which should(?) have enough power & bandwidth), and the Steam App on top of that.

*If* it works, it wouldn't be nvidia only (because dependent on Moonlight) either.

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Quoting: ShoNuff!!!

Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder how the Deus Ex Mankind Divided (DX11 mode) behaves under DXVK. The protondb page for it doesn't contain much in the way of a clue (I mean, it says 'borked', but the person could have tried to run it in DX12 mode, maybe?)

Works great... no issues.

Great -- and how about performance? How does it compare to the native opengl on Linux?

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The analogy with windoze vs. os/2 might actually work the other way around.

Being perfectly compatible with windoze *applications* made os/2 redundant for its purposes. It's hard to imagine Wine having the same effect, because application development on Linux is typically done using open source, cross-platform toolkits in the first place. No one's going to abandon the GTK or Qt projects because of wine.

As to all the lower level software projects, wine is totally irrelevant to them anyway.

But on the other hand, for so many home users, the main selling point of windoze is that it still owns the high-performance 'triple aiaiaiai [External Link]' gaming world. Mobile OSs, & webapps, etc., already made a dent in their hegemony in the office software space, so gaming is now an even more significant reason to own a windoze pc. Compatibility of the sort that wine introduces weakens that very reason.

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