Well, this is something I'd like to test for sure. Thanks! That'll give me something to do tonight.

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I haven't played many games with Proton. One interesting one was Bioshock Remastered. This one is interesting because the reviews are littered with people complaining about crashes and whatever issues the game has. However, I played it all the way through without crashes or any other issues whatsoever. Seems that proton does better here than Win10. It is also pretty much a must for VR because the number of native releases is rather small. However, there I have encountered a few failures.

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Nice! Still a long way away though. Even though the Linux port for this should be easier than the first one, I hope they leave it in for all that time. If they do, I'm there!

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Quoting: WorMzyInteresting to see BL3 up there, so there must be a working Linux version! Hopefully it sees its way to Linux proper after the 'Epic exclusive' bollocks expires.

At least BL3 is built on UE4, so as long as they didn't make any exceptionally poor choices, it should port to Vulkan. I'm more surprised by things like Cyberpunk 2077 which is not an engine that was associated with Vulkan before. Which means quite a few big proprietary engines have already included Vulkan support.

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Not the best reviews, but even some of the negative ones are about things that appeal to me. Definitely on my radar!

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Quoting: Para-Glidingstrange game, it is badly rated on steam due it seems to bugs, no translation? Some of you own this gam and how does it compare to a minecraft for teenagers? ty for your returns

It is a strange game and I don't think it compares at all. Building takes a lot of work and resources. To get those, you need to move around to other islands as well. Make something better to sail with because the initial life raft is a disaster. Dive to get loot from underwater wrecks. And deal with hostile wild life. Diving to deeper wrecks creates quite a bit of tension due to sharks and lack of visibility. All in all a different experience.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhat Windows gamer is going to install Linux just to get a refund of a single game?
Sounds a bit silly to me.

And silly people are unheard of? :D I'm thinking that there are 25% negative reviews. At least a portion of those might try to get something back out of shear principle. It quickly adds up to more than the number of Linux owners. Especially with the low percentage of sales that Rust appears to have on Linux.

Quoting: ysblokjeSo ehhh how would this work if you bought it via Humble Bundle at some point?

I suspect it doesn't. I got mine through a humble bundle. For me that means that the price was probably less than $1, so it's not even worth investigating.

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I wonder how big the spike in Linux "users" will be after an announcement like this. Without details, some non-Linux players might just see an opportunity to refund their game after a huge amount of hours. To avoid that, Valve would have to give them access to who actually purchased the game on Linux or hand that job over to Valve. Definitely not something that has been done before.

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ETS2 and ATS are the only games I know that use the predefined effects of the force feedback system (spring, damper, inertia, friction and periodic effects). All other games calculate everything themselves and only use constant force effects. The logitech wheels (except G920) support spring and damper in hardware, but this is not implemented in the official Linux driver. The G920 supports all effects in hardware and all are available in the driver. There are no other (currently sold) wheels with a force feedback driver although it appears that Feral managed to make support for others on their own. Technically there is no reason why that stuff can't be implemented in user space.

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Quoting: M@GOidOne thing that really piss me off to no end is the gearing noise and micro-vibration of Logitech wheels. Is very distracting and not realistic at all (I work with cars, the only ones doing that are the defective ones). The gears mechanism is cheaper to make, that is why is used.

I heard that the belt mechanism used in more high end wheels from Thrustmaster, Fanatech and others are quieter and smoother, but unfortunately I didn't have the chance to test one to see it for myself.

It's all about money. Logitech wheels (even the G29 and G920) are at the lower end of the spectrum. If you want higher quality, you need to be willing to pay a lot more. Thrustmaster is supposedly a bit better at somewhat higher price.Fanatec is the way to go if you want something higher quality, but I think pay about three times the price.

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