Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: kneekooAnd there's the fact that they didn't put up a (marketing) fight to attract people like me, who never touched an Amiga system before.

If you'd mixed up Amiga and Atari back in the 16bit A500/ST days, you'd have had both camps coming after you with torches and pitchforks. ;)

I'd fear a personal 'Jack Attack' from Mr. Tramiel himself.

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Quoting: 1xokBut now I'm back to staging. However, this is stuck in version 2.21. Has anyone under Ubuntu ever played with the Devel-branch Doom 2016 or made GTA V work?

This doesn't answer your question, but I also have a 970, and I've been able to run DOOM 2016 Vulkan on wine-staging <2.21 (can't remember the exact version, I've uninstalled the game several months ago [takes too much disk space...]) with absolutely no problems -- perfectly smooth at 1080p, locked at 60fps.

... in fact, for some odd reason, on my system the wine-staging performance was BETTER than what I got on native windows. On the latter I kept getting odd artifacts (effects like sparks and flames froze up, littering the scenery), and the occasional stuttering. On wine, there was none of that.

This is on Fedora, with wine from the winehq repositories. I didn't have to tinker with the prefix with winetricks etc., at all; it worked 'out of the box'.

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Gladia-Bots? 'Bots owned by the woman from Solaria? Hmmm.....

(Joking aside, this looks very interesting.)

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Quoting: FurorGood news:
The new Wine Staging repository is thriving! [External Link]

I suppose we don't have to change anything if we're subscribed to the official winehq repos (listed here [External Link])?

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: webcreatureDefinitely going to check these scripts out! Very interesting stuff!

It makes me think, if a developer doesn't want to spring for a full, native Linux port, then why can't they at least do something like this?

My entirely uneducated guess is that they wouldn't want to take responsibility (or create the expectation of responsibility) as to what works and what doesn't, etc. Even if they put gigantic disclaimers all over the place, the script they release would be perceived as the 'official script of $DEVELOPER', which would be taken to commit them to *some* degree of support, where they might not want to provide *any* of it.

(--Hey, I spent money on this title, because you offer such and such wine script, but it doesn't work; --Sorry but we've made no promises as to whether it would work; --Bullshit; now I'll go an metabomb your stupid game to hell.)

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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: adamhm

Quoting: hummer010On top of that, buying the System Shock games supports Nightdive, who are bringing the new System Shock game to Linux.

Speaking of which... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock/posts/2115044 [External Link] :/

Wow. I did not see that coming.

Ouch... I've been suspecting all along, that they were they trying to turn it into an open world action-rpg-heroshooter-MMO... (/s)

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Quoting: hummer010Entirely contained. Adam's scripts are as close to playing a native game as you can get using WINE. I highly recommend checking them out.

They're also very tidy, easy to read & understand; so you can always edit them to your liking.

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Quoting: EikeAnd the writing is a challenge to my English knowledge, by the way. The descriptions are rich and well written (as far as I can judge).

Games are great for language practice; you get immersed in everyday language for dozens of hours.

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Vulkan use is great news.

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Quoting: areamanplaysgameIt's almost like they don't know how much of the Internet securely runs on Linux machines.

Imagine thinking someone is going to modify the source code and compile their own damned operating system expressly to cheat in your HALO fan game. Just imagine.

What an ignoramus.

People are conditioned (indoctrinated, even) into associating the corporate/proprietary/locked-down/DRM-ed with the 'legit' and the 'secure'; so it's really just a symptom of a much wider problem. When someone calls this faith in the propriety into question, the response is that they're doing this out of *their* own ideological convictions; but it's so easy to produce concrete examples that proprietary software *hides* security vulnerabilities, 'fixes' them incompetently and whenever convenient, etc. etc. etc.

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