As for DX12, I suspect that's basically Mantle in disguise.

DirectX12 scares me, as the thought of it coming out now would mean that Wine is getting further and further away from being able to support most Windows-only games. It also means Microsoft doesn't want anyone touching it's piece of the pie, so it's going brute force.

Wine definitely isn't the solution to bringing games to Linux, thankfully we have Unity3D and what looks to be like Godot + CryEngine 4 + Unreal Engine 4 + Leadwerks for that exact purpose.

It just seems sad that Wine is still only in DirectX 9 land (not undermining their work though!). With how DX10 and DX11 were pretty much ignored, I can safely assume DX12 will be as well. It was always cool to show off games running in Wine when there wasn't a native version. It's becoming harder to do that.

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Sorry for my rant earlier on. Just bit fed up with AMD linux support that all.

I can't blame you for feeling that way, 2012 was probably the worst year for AMD's Catalyst driver in Linux. It got so bad, that my desktop became unusable and I went with Nvidia for 2013 (only ever owned one Nvidia card before that in my lifetime).

I will say this though, I have setup a small SteamOS machine and it's running with an AMD HD 5750. I thought it wouldn't work at all after my experience with the HD6850, but to my surprise the AMD driver that comes with SteamOS is actually performance worthy. No tears, no evil sudden drops in FPS, no weird nasty glitches in graphics, it's actually ok. I don't know though if this reflects other Linux distros.

I'm not Liam, but just to chip in, Nvidia's binary driver almost has no real issues and performs very closely to that of the Windows driver (at least in my experience over the past year and a half). It's currently the only real deal if you want the best performance in gaming on Linux, from my perspective.

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since I have a habit of having 50+ tabs open all the time, it would be kind a hardcore with games running on some of them.

+1 ! Here I was thinking I was being weird having so many tabs open! Glad to know I'm not the only one ;)

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I admit, I'm surprised; I didn't expect that to happen any time soon (or at all). In fact, I'm still suspicious this is an early April Fools' joke.

Same here! I honestly thought GOG had no interest, and were really set on not supporting Linux. I'm surprised at the sudden turn around! This is awesome, and now it looks like I can buy games from them again :D

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My eyes opened so WIDE when I saw that title in my RSS feed. That's great news! Thanks for keeping us updated :D

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Livalink! Woot, hope the dev adds achievements as well :)

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A few more Direct3D 10 interfaces.

That's interesting to read. I really do wonder how long it'll be before we have any form of runnable DX10 or DX11 games in Wine (not those games which can fall back on DX9).

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I have emailed Crytek about the Linux version of CryEngine, no reply yet, doubt I will get one from them.

It's a good initiative! The main reason I like GOL is because you and others attempt direct communication with the source, so we can all get confirmation :)

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I'll be honest, I don't believe in the Linux port until I see it. If Crytek won't officially announce Linux compatibility, then I refuse to believe there is any. If Kingdom Come really does end up on Linux, that would be awesome. Until then, I will remain skeptical.

Why remain skeptical on the Linux support? As they've said, this is just to show that there's interest for their investor(s). The money will be refunded in the event of no support, which is very smart. This means they don't have to support Linux, just say that they will and suddenly create additional hype and interest that they don't have to atone for later on (just simply throw out refunds).

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Wow, that looks like my kind of game! Wipes is the only reason I probably won't jump into it yet. Just like Starbound, I'm waiting for it to stabilize, before putting days into it.

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