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Latest Comments by RussianNeuroMancer
The open source game manager Lutris had another sweet update recently
25 Mar 2019 at 12:00 pm UTC

Also, I playing Prey on Proton right now, and find that eventually game starting to crash, corrupt save files and stuff. Somehow, disabling esync OR increasing DefaultLimitNOFILE doesn't help - for some reason, only doing both (second advice here [External Link] help me get rid of crashes and corrupted save files.

Let's visit Prey page: https://lutris.net/games/prey-2017/ [External Link]

As we can see, there is four installation scripts and no workarounds for crashes. I'm afraid there is many games left in such semi-working state in Lutris database.

The open source game manager Lutris had another sweet update recently
25 Mar 2019 at 11:36 am UTC

I tried to use Lutris a couple of times (Fallout 3, StarCraft II) in one case game doesn't start at all (turns out it's easier to setup Proton for Fallout 3) and in another there text rendering issues with Battle.net

Well, I see that developers and community done tremendous work. At least, in SC2 case Lutris installation script indeed produce better results than me, when I trying to setup wine prefix for SC2 manually. But, I have to say, that from regular gamer point of view, Lutris praise is not always justified. At least, not in case of some games, that have broken installation scripts (I tried Fallout 3 installation script on three or four different devices with different Ubuntu/Mesa/GPU, outcome is always the same - game doesn't work, so I conclude at least back then installation script was clearly broken).

Also, why League of Legends banner is even on main page of lutris.net [External Link] if it's "BROKEN ON OLD VERSIONS OF UBUNTU, LINUX MINT AND DEBIAN!" (is 18.04 or 18.10 is old? Or 16.04 is old, but 18.04 is not? How to find out?) and "CURRENTLY BROKEN ON UBUNTU, LINUX MINT AND DEBIAN! May work with Arch-based distributions."

Epic Games have confirmed a Linux version of their store is not on the roadmap
1 Jan 2019 at 12:21 pm UTC

Quoting: CorbenC'mon Micrsoft... finally do, what you wanted to do already with Windows 8. Lock down your OS so only apps from your Windows App store can be installed. People with either accept it, or... hrhr.

Valve is ready for this scenario. Humble, GoG and Itch.io too. And I bet Origin, UPlay and even Epic will adapt very quickly and release Linux versions of their store clients ;)
Nope, they will just publish their games in platform's store, just like they do with Android, Xbox, etc.

There's a brand new Steam Play Beta version out with FAudio, also a Steam Play whitelist update
12 Dec 2018 at 4:25 pm UTC

How they pick up games for whitelisting? Whitelist changelogs is always somehow bizarre.

BATTLETECH for Linux updated, releases Flashpoint expansion – some thoughts
28 Nov 2018 at 3:56 am UTC Likes: 3

It's nice to see Battletech has been released on Linux. So, at least for me, it's instabuy.

System76 reveal the Thelio, their new custom-built Linux desktop with three versions
1 Nov 2018 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 3

Not sure why they didn't put Threadripper into Massive.

VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone
30 Sep 2018 at 2:55 am UTC Likes: 1

Yeah, it would be nice have more polished VK9 in the future, but WINE run D3D9 games just fine overall.

One of the fine folks in the Intel Mesa driver team has written up a post on their work improving games in DXVK
21 Sep 2018 at 3:41 am UTC

Quoting: johndoeWhats the outcome?
Outcome described in bugreport. This bug is unrelated to DDX, issue occur on lower lewel.