I only just got my gaming Laptop which is an ASUS TUF FX505DU 15.6" Full HD 120Hz Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 3550H, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti 6GB Graphics, 512 GB PCI-E SSD boot drive, 2TB SSD for home folder, 32GB RAM. I had to upgrade the ram as it originally had only 8GB. I'm running Linux Mint 20 on it and games perform really well. I play games at work on night shift, the only downside is the noisy fan when under stress. Why on earth would someone want to buy this laptop to replace a Desktop? Surely building your own Desktop is far cheaper.

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This blooming generation we live in, saying the masks in this video game, yes video game, fictional not real yet people are complaining about it. In my day we had Jim Davidson on the TV doing impressions of how African people speak, he just got laughed at no one complained. This whole racist thing has gone too far, from knocking down statues to protesting in crowds, breaking the distancing laws. I am not racist in any way, shape or form, but this generation has gone completely mad, finding fault in everything and now in a computer game. So future generations will follow in their parents footsteps and carry on destroying history and take away freedom of speech, art, creativity altogether. Bring back Alf Garnett in Till Death Do Us Part and you'll see what real racism in character is actually like, but back then we all laughed about it. Then a couple of weeks ago they were going to take down the Germans episode of Fawlty Towers, which was made back in 1975. Instead of taking it down they have put a warning up saying it might upset some viewers. It's pure genius comedy from the mind of John Cleese from Monty Python. Sorry to go on, but really as if we all ain't got enough to worry about.

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I upgraded my Lenovo Yoga 500 to a 500GB SSD and 8GB of ram and it's running Peppermint OS 10 Re-Spin flawlessly. I love Lenovo they are a great company, would be nice to see them with other Linux Distros too in the future. :D

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So her name's Tasia they pronounce an a and I'm spelling it as. Or it should be Tasiah, Tasi ahh, as there is a half second pause, making it sound as though sand got in her eyes, or is that just sleepy dust? Either way I'm intriegued, intreiged intriggered, intrigued. Hooray got there in the end. :D

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I've just been playing the hell out of Resident Evil 2 Remake in Proton, it runs flawlessly on my build. Trying to find all the Raccoons and all of the other collectibles. Like a lot of AAA games once you take away the cut scenes and just go to the end of the game, it's about an hour of game play. In my view playing this title in Linux is far smoother than on anything else. I just like watching Claire and Ada running around in their tight clothes. If you actually explore everything, you get to find some pretty good stuff, plus the longevity increases. I'm addicted to this game at the moment. Picked up Plague Innocence and it works out of the box, which will be my next game to conquer.

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Dying Light on Linux has come an awful long way, from when it was first ported. Smooth and silky it runs. :D Or is it because I play it with modern gaming hardware? Actually the dev team's hard work and dedication to keep this game running smooth.

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I have a BT box hooked up to a 50Hertz 32" cheap German made TV and it only runs at 720p fine because my eyesight is getting worse. I have never seen the benefit in having or owning a 4K Monitor or TV, as none of the TV networks in the world actually broadcast in 4K or 8K. Just a gimmick to my mind. This Atari looks good and Mr Mark Greaves from Peppermint, before he died asked me to let him know how installing Peppermint on this goes? As I'm going to buy one and still let him know, well his family and the Peppermint Forums know and a YouTube Video too. So I for one am looking forward to this coming out.

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So if we really want Windows games straight from the developers, to play from release day one we who are playing their games through Proton should be getting in contact with the developers, to say hey we are able to play your game here in Linux, with better performance than in Windows. Any chance you could add some Vulkan to the code so we can have it natively? Then leave them names of Linux Porters Feral Interactive for instance. We as players of these games should be doing something too and not just leaving it to the likes of Steam, as they are working so hard already making Proton work with every game under the sun. The question is though. Would developers actually listen and take note to what Joe Bloggs has to say and ask?? But this was the whole idea of Proton anyway, however it was going to show to developers, being played on Linux?

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: clatterfordslim

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe original publishers don't have to pay anything..

I did not know that, but they still have to get permissions obviously? Would be great if they could get CAPCOM and RockStar.

They do need to get permissions, the source code, and maybe a little help to get it all up (maybe stuff is missing to get the game together or something). But I still wonder why not more companies do that, given it's very little to no financial risc for them.

I literally thought that to get companies to port their games, that the porting companies had to jump through hoops and have loads of meetings, persuading the said companies. Instead it's a case of the porters paying for the rights and the scripts, with no payout from the actual game company. But like you say if something is missing in the code or it's going to be a nightmare to port, plus money spent on time and staff to rewrite code?? But that's where Vulcan comes in, to surely make the port easier? No doubt they have to get permissions again to add Vulcan in the first place? Maybe I'll ask Feral Interactive on that one.

All I know is that Feral Interactive are really good at porting games and it would be great if they could get RE2, RE3, RE7 GTA5 though that is a massive game and it would be a really big download.

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There are some blooming clever people out there, as I can play Resident Evil 2 remake without it crashing out. I just wish the instructions to get it going were clearer, as they were actually wrong on a few things and after pulling my hair out, then thinking outside the box, it all came together. I'm someone who never gives up and will keep trying especially where Linux is concerned. I will do a video on how to get it running and yes you could use Glorious Egg Roll but you still have to get MF-Plat from Windows 7 and it needs to be the correct version, as GE has taken all of that out of their Proton scripts. Resident Evil 7 does nothing but crash on the intro movie after pressing start which is a shame. Proton has come along way though, just wish there was a way for WINE to legally have MF-Plat, but as it stands it's owned by Microsoft, even though Winders 7 has gone End Of Life.

The thing is though I would love to see RE2 native, as suffering from lip sync problems through Proton. Though I did read that it does on Winders as well.

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