fantastic news!
Now I just need to buy the game :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasuI'm torn about Bundle Stars, I used to buy a lot from them (good prices) but since I found out that all sales count as Windows sales...

Technically, I think that really only matters for external porters.

That's how probably it is, in fact there is just a Windows icon on titles such as Shadow of Mordor, Borderlands 2, Mad Max, etc..
While many other are listed with a Linux icon (Saints Row, etc..).

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I have the game running at stable 60 fps with OpenGL (even with vsync unchecked and fps set to unlimited) and at around 100 with Vulkan.
Anyway Vulkan freezed my PC, and a hard reboot was necessary (happened twice).

I'm going to retry soon :)

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you can get the game for $1 at HumbleBundle [External Link]
hurry up the offer ends in a few hours :)

OK nevermind I just read the entire post and discovered that it counts as a different game..
What the hell?!? hope it doesn't become a trend

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: manero666*snip*

*snip*

I wasn't judging you at all. Especially I didn't say that someone with an Nvidia card automatically hates Wine.

I was just trying to analyze why every time that Wine is mentioned the discussion ends up off topic, always about Native ports, performance issues compared to Window$ or that Wine is good for old/legacy software..

On this discussion we should talk about Wine 2.0 and the long awaited DX11 support, but it looks like some other feelings prevails.

If you find my post arrogant or condescending, well, I find your:

Quoting: pete910Native or not interested.

quite arrogant and condescending too, considering that the 2.0 version is quite a milestone after 23 years of development (4 July 1993).

If you used AMD for such long time you sure know the performances gain when using Gallium Nine, also comparing to a similar native game. Wine became fundamental for the red side, considering the poor (but fast growing) native performances.

I'm absolutely not encouraging people to buy closed-platform games, but it is always good to know (f.e. when buying a bundle) that some could perfectly run on Linux without the need of dual-booting.

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Nice to see so many Wine-Haters and pro Dual-Boot comments out there.

Honestly I won't even try to reply to this and that.. Everyone is free to type whatever it thinks.

I would just like to point out a few things to make this and the future discussions about Wine more clear.
(Also notice that these discussions always end up like the Windows vs Linux ones, we just miss a Meraco-like troll to complete the party).

On one side you have the haters, that are mostly Nvidia users and I guess never really learn how to use Wine and probably expected too much from it. I cannot exclude that some didn't even try Wine Staging.
You can expect every sort of comment, like: Wine development is too slow, a Window$ partition is better, Wine is cancer for Linux, etc..

On the other side there are the supporters who are a mix of Nvidia and AMD users.
They understand how helpful Wine is and appreciate that it is free and open source, a fact that beats the "slow" development or the performance issue. Actually they are able to get the most out of Wine since they know how to properly use it (or are willing to learn).
Most AMD users are on this side and I think they initially weren't expecting much but then got totally blasted by the greatness of Wine Gallium Nine.

Basically every discussion is going to end up with people blinding hating Wine and each other. I'm personally out of this bullshit..

I think here is to understand that we won't get more games by teaching ethics to developers/publishers but by having more people using Linux (without Dual-Booting).
Petitions and the various "+1" are somehow helpful but games won't be developed with Linux in mind if developers/publishers see no profit in it.
Wine is actually helpful since it boost the games that run on Mac/Linux, so it helps not booting into Window$ or even installing it.
Do not expect too much from the Gaming Industry, they go where the $$$ are..
If you explain to a 6 yo kid that most of the games are developed using closed-platform software instead of multi-platform he, with his innocent mind, probably won't understand why this is happening and find all the story unethical, paradoxical and unreal.

at the end:

Wine = more games running on Linux = less/no Dual-Boot needs = more people using Linux = more people asking for native games = profit

I shamelessly put a link where you can watch 100+ games [External Link] running on Linux with Wine (AMD+Gallium Nine and Nvidia+Nvenc)

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1111

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The developers were very kind and provided many free-key to anyone who was willing to test the game on Linux.
I was one of those testers and I can say that the game looks pretty good. It is too slow-paced for my taste but
interesting nonetheless.

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Skyrim :O

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What to expect from the Ubuntu repos?
They still have Wine1.4 and 1.6 as the official options...

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