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Latest Comments by Ehvis
I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris
23 Jan 2019 at 11:24 am UTC

Quoting: Lolo01
Quoting: EhvisUnfortunately there is still no fix for the mouse bug in the wine-staging version that Lutris uses for this game.
I have no more mouse bug with the latest install script on Lutris.
The mouse bug occurs when you have a screen (or window) that is not 16:9. Overwatch with letterbox it to 16:9 (which gives you black borders), but this messes with the mouse input and makes you spin around.

Golf With Your Friends is a surprisingly amusing mini golf game
22 Jan 2019 at 10:58 pm UTC

Quoting: HaagentisUnfortunately, it looks fun, but it doesn't work on my manjaro linux laptop. Maybe a bumblebee thingy (optimus laptop), I get this when launching:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mathieu/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Same error with or without tweaking the launch command. :huh:
That error is actually normal for 64 bit games. If it's not working, find the game's Player.log.

Golf With Your Friends is a surprisingly amusing mini golf game
22 Jan 2019 at 11:47 am UTC

Haven't played it in a while, but it was always fun. Especially with a large group of people using some silly modifiers so that all your practice meant exactly nothing. :D

I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris
22 Jan 2019 at 9:48 am UTC

Quoting: 14I keep being impressed myself. I get 100-140 FPS on max settings. It's just incredible that it works that well. It makes me think about trying Destiny 2 and Battlefield V. I got Destiny 2 for free a couple months ago, so might as well. But Battlefield V would be a plunge because I'd have to buy it.
I remember someone mentioning that playing Destiny 2 on Wine will just get you banned.

I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris
21 Jan 2019 at 11:36 pm UTC

Quoting: einherjarAre there no issues with Anticheat?
Nope. I'm not sure if they made any changes to their anti-cheat, but they've always been pretty solid in making sure that people playing on Linux with Wine could do so.

I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris
21 Jan 2019 at 9:14 pm UTC

Unfortunately there is still no fix for the mouse bug in the wine-staging version that Lutris uses for this game.

I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris
21 Jan 2019 at 8:57 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: gurvHonestly the performance seems disappointing.
Just look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux998aNR9-Y [External Link]
Same GPU as yours and ultra settings (vs very high for you) and the framerate never dips below ~140fps vs ~70fps for you.

So what appears to be less than half the performance of Windows is not exactly great.
I've been used to a lot better performance of DXVK in other games.
Considering this is all 100% unofficial, it's pretty damn good.
Well, that video was on 1080p while your video was 4k. Were you actually playing the game on 4k resolution?

Protontricks, a handy tool for doing various tweaks with Steam Play has been forked
20 Jan 2019 at 9:09 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: BoldosHe quit Linux to the world where things "just work"... and then identifies that world as Windows 10?
Really??! :huh:
I had a grin with the win10 thing as well. If there is anything at work that tries my patience, it's win10. Oh well, everybody can choose what they're comfortable with. Even if others don't understand.

Quake 2 now has real-time path tracing with Vulkan
19 Jan 2019 at 11:09 pm UTC

Quoting: silmethSo I’d guess it should run (or at least try to), with probably very shitty performance. The question is how well is the extension implemented in software for older cards without the new hardware to support it.
I'm not so sure the Vulkan extension is implemented for non-RTX cards all. The extension may exist in the driver, but it may not do anything. Only one way to be sure. There is OptiX, which implements similar tech using CUDA. On this RTX mode is 1.5x to 2x faster than plain CUDA. Which suggest even older GPUs shouldn't be half bad at this.

Quake 2 now has real-time path tracing with Vulkan
18 Jan 2019 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: x_wing
Quoting: ageresI couldn't compile this.
Anyway, does it work only on Nvidia RTX cards?
I think so. Nvidia said that they were using specific hardware to speed up ray tracing.
It says in the article that it uses VK_NV_ray_tracing, which only works on RTX cards. Khronos is doing a generic one though, which could be implemented for other cards using compute shaders. Whether that will actually work or be fast enough remains to be seen though.