Quoting: pmatulkaMaybe aspyr will finally make Borderland 2 playable again?
How many months have passed since basic function of the game does not work?

Probably never, they fixed the macOS version a long time ago and the macOS and Linux versions should (at least in theory) have few or no differences so that tells me that they have no interest in releasing also for Linux. Could also be that Aspyr does this for payment (aka they don't get the revenue from sales like Feral) and 2K only paid to have the macOS version fixed.

But that is just unqualified guesses from my part.

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Quoting: NanobangUnfortunately, 4.11-10 messed up something with Borderlands 2 for me. Whilst Nvidia reported FPS around 120, it kinda looked as if every other frame was being displayed---jumpy, not smooth. Most disconcerting was the way a frame would flash on the screen from an entirely different sequence altogether, like a menu frame while running through Sanctuary or something.

Rolling back to 4.2-9 fixed it right up. Would this sort of regression be best reported to the Proton github page, or should I just assume it'll get fixed up on a later iteration? Or maybe I'll just lock Borderlands 2 to 4.2-9 and call it good.

Does it run better under Proton or something? Borderlands 2 is a native game.

If I have to guess (s)he runs it under Proton due to the HD-update of BL2 that we never got on Linux and which made the Linux-version no longer being able to connect to multiplayer servers.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: F.Ultra...a large AAA "Choose Your Own Adventure" game...

Detroit Become Human

+1, now imagine if they had choose to call it "Choose Your Own Adventure: Detroit". I think most people that are negative now would find Chooseco in the right if they had sued Sony over that?!

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Quoting: CFWhitmanI wanted to point out that trademark law is probably the most supportable form of so-called "intellectual property." Trademark law is a consumer protection law. The purpose of trademark is to prevent dishonesty in the marketplace. Trademark is a way of making sure that you are dealing with the company that you think you are. Without it, anyone could pretend to be representing a company that they have nothing to do with. With trademark you know that the mayonnaise that you bought is Hellman's or Cain's, the car you bought is a Toyota or a Chevrolet, etc. Without it you can't be sure of any of these things.

Does this mean that trademark is never abused? Of course not. I pointed out things that I thought were abuses in a previous post. That doesn't mean that trademark is a bad thing overall.

The best argument against this trademark is that protection for it wasn't pursued diligently enough in the years between when the books were popular and just recently. The phrase may seem generic now, but it was quite original back when the books were first introduced.

The problem is that the idea that you can trademark something generic such as "Choose Your Own Adventure" is not something that the public at large agrees with. Few people would argue against Hellman's, Chevrolet and so on, so the main problem is not trademark itself.

Another thing where there is a disconnect between the legal system and the general public is when you e.g cannot have non-profit Harry Potter gatherings. Also we are here talking about small indie developers, if EA would announce a large AAA "Choose Your Own Adventure" game tomorrow then I guess that people would be more inclined to agree that they had breached a true trademark.

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: hagabaka

Quoting: CFWhitmanTo be honest, this sounds like a fairly legitimate claim to me. The "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of books was pretty popular in the eighties, and everyone knew that the phrase referred to a very specific series of books. That phrase did not exist in English before those books came out. Some competitors released similar material, but they had to use a different name.

The thing is, the ability to trademark some words isn't related to whether you "invented" or popularized those words. Otherwise Apple couldn't be a trademark. So I don't think this adds to the legitimacy of the claim.

There are several factors involved, but originality is a big one. If another company had already sold a line of computers they referred to as "Apple" computers, then Apple couldn't have trademarked their name.* As I explained before, the more original the trademark is, the wider a scope it can cover. The less original it is, the narrower the scope it must be limited to, and it always must be original to its scope. So yes, originality is a factor in trademark cases.

*Apple actually did have a lawsuit on its hands when they created the Apple Music service, because Apple Records existed before Apple Computers.

Actually Apple Corp did sue Apple Computers back in 1978 and they settled for $80k and allowed Apple Computers to use the Apple brand with the condition that they "agreed not to enter the music business" which is why they later got into trouble again 2003 when they launched the iTunes store.

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Quoting: ThetargosI started a new game after updating to the beta. And in the opening sequence on the tram system, right up to the part where you get to the elevator, and exit to the valley where the Helicopter is, the game turns into a slide-show (1 frame every couple of seconds, at best) and the game uses three threads, one at 100% the other two at 10% CPU max, and no GPU utilization, really weird!

Alas, this is Beta and hopefully they will get these issues sorted out!

The exact same happened for me, the actual gameplay was completely fine but that outdoors valley part was 0.5fps (mesa/rx480)

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Quoting: dannielloSadly my concerns about Google Stadia and it's Linux influence confirmed: no good influence at all. Not only Stadia games has not been ported elsewhere to Linux, they even not working via Steam Proton...

* Destiny 2 - not working and even threaten that users that will try start game outside official supported platforms will be banned...
* RDR2 - not working
* Mortal Kombat 11 - not working

Even Vulkan do not received much... Only RDR2 officially has Vulkan support outside Stadia...

It's way to early to make any forms of determination regarding whether or not Stadia will have any influence for Linux gaming or uptake of Vulkan. These things will take months and years, not milliseconds.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: F.UltraTHQ is just the publisher. Airship Syndicate is the studio behind Darksiders Genesis.

And commonly such things are blocked on the publisher level. I.e. since developers already released it for Stadia, they shouldn't lacking Linux expertise.

Normally yes and it would indeed be very interesting to hear THQ:s side of this. Could be that normally THQ is not against the dev studio releasing also on Linux but that Airship is not interested. Could be that the Stadia port is not yet in good shape enough to be distributed as a stand alone version, could be that THQ as a small studio is already busy enough with them releasing it on stadfia+steam+xbox+switch, could be a million things.

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Quoting: Shmerl@Liam: May be writing to them would be a good idea, to clarify what's blocking normal Linux release in this case.

I.e. in case of legacy publishers, such situation would be expected, but from THQ Nordic, I expected something better.

THQ is just the publisher. Airship Syndicate is the studio behind Darksiders Genesis.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: KimyrielleSo essentially people are dissing on Feral for getting permission from a company to port a game to Linux, because the same company also happened to allow them to port their previous games?

That makes sense! *nods*

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/sarcasm

Seriously, I think people still mistakenly assume that Feral picks the games they port. From how I understand it, it's more that they have to beg them to let them do it, because nobody in big gaming business gives a flying fish about Linux.
I dislike the lack of AAA games on Linux as much as anyone, but the truth is that other than Square Enix and the Total War devs, nobody seems to be interested in Linux ports, so that's what Feral is porting.

It's like some people think we have a market share of 50% suddenly or something. The fact that Feral still port anything, at all, is frankly amazing and appreciated because:

- Their work is top stuff
- They contribute to the community as well
- They've contributed to Mesa drivers
- And so much more

That and the fact that we have no large company that can give publishers the big PR that Sony or Nintendo can do. I mean port your AAA game to the Switch and you will get tons of free advertising from Nintendo on E3, in stores and various PR extravaganzas.

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