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Unique steampunk survival game Volcanoids has erupted into Early Access
29 Jan 2019 at 9:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

I was an alpha tester as well and i must say ; devs are really listening feedbacks. Last build crashed in Vulkan for me but OGL version was fine. I guess that is an Unity issue.

Game really improved on performance terms. I wish them good luck.

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?
26 Jan 2019 at 3:42 pm UTC

Witcher 3 ( SteamPlay ) , ETS2 and Talos Principle ( both native ).

Lutris has a third beta available for the big 0.5.0 release
23 Jan 2019 at 6:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: iiari
Quoting: TheSHEEEPI'd use it if it wasn't Linux only.
As it is, Lutris is almost as useless to me as that Windows-only equivalent (forgot the name).
While I get your reasoning (and like cross platform apps as well), this has to be the first criticism I've seen in the Linux world aimed at an app for being a Linux exclusive. Wow!
Nobody is going to try out or switch to Linux because of a piece of software, especially not if there are already better alternatives on Windows (afaik, Playnite has more integrations). It doesn't help in making Linux more ... palatable.

Plus, catering to a rather small audience from the get-go seems like a very weird decision.
I get why devs would make Windows exclusives, I really do not get why devs would make Linux exclusives.
Because nobody need Lutris on Windows.

Does it ring a bell?

Your reasoning/ bashing here is just absurd.

vkQuake2, the project adding Vulkan support to Quake 2 now supports Linux
20 Jan 2019 at 11:03 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: fagnerlnSomeone knows if Quake IV have a open source project like this? I only find for doom 3...
No. After John Carmack left id Software and id Software bought by Zenimax/ Bethesda ; releasing open source engines to the wild has ended.

Though that being said , id Software still have some John Carmack culture going on without violating Zenimax's rules/ approaches.

1-) They have gone with full Vulkan , just like they did before with OGL.

2-) Some id Software devs are just done Vulkan work on their free time , with games Quake 1 and Doom 3.

Axel Gneiting - Quake 1
Dustin H. Land - Doom 3

Protontricks, a handy tool for doing various tweaks with Steam Play has been forked
20 Jan 2019 at 10:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BoldosHe quit Linux to the world where things "just work"... and then identifies that world as Windows 10?
Really??! :huh:
Well , i think he meant something else.

On Windows 10, problem is mostly troubleshooting and swearing to weird Win10 quirks.

On Linux , problem is exploring new things. You had to deal with wine bugs , DRM problems , anti cheat problems etc.

Previous dev just considering gaming side. It is nearly plug&play for people. Install drivers and you're ready to go. No fuss.

Though that being said , as much as i care about games i also care using a sane and predictable system. So Linux works for my needs very well , especially with SteamPlay.

Anyway , i gotta go for playing some Witcher 3. I spent 45 hours already and it is wonderful.

If you enjoy our content, we would appreciate your support!
19 Jan 2019 at 9:01 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Guestwell i would say people who use words content are spambots
because there all over the whole internet, content people, who only want to consume content, and people who want give content to people.
same and same words content and content on whole internet :)

so to me people who say things on forums like: OP said that they did great work and content is amazing, goodjob are spambots
everywhere i go there are spambots who write like that. are they humanes or content work bots?? why is everybody about content??
and first of all, what's content?? cuz im uneducated, please describe me meaning of word content, please.
Sorry but i think you have some problems.

If there isn't content that Liam and others put on that site , people won't be able to put their comments ( which oddly you describe it as a content )

This website is also a content if you look it that way ; that provides you to get your contents ( comments )

If you don't want to donate , cool. Don't do it.

But don't come up with comments like that. Just skip it.

Valve put out another Steam Beta Client with minor Steam Play changes
19 Jan 2019 at 2:04 pm UTC

Quoting: pbWell, this update broke this new feature on SteamOS for me. Move or Die (which has been broken on SteamOS for a few months now) worked with SteamPlay yesterday but doesn't start today. :-(
You have to enable SteamPlay again.

Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts
19 Jan 2019 at 1:02 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PJthis tests make me think that John Carmack might have been right after all ;) ...
No , just look at one message above.

When ports done right ; native is preffered.

Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts
18 Jan 2019 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: Kimyrielle
Quoting: YoRHa-2B
Quoting: tuxintuxedoOn the other hand, people who work on Wine and components (or simply Proton) will never see that money while doing the work itself.
Well, it does give Valve more money to throw at the parties involved in Proton development.
If I remember right, Valve already hired the person behind DXVK, so it's not that they aren't getting compensated for their work.
You're talking with him already.

He is Philip Rebohle.

Another Steam Client Beta is out, adds the ability to force Steam Play
18 Jan 2019 at 12:48 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: GuestWow, seems I've stirred things up with the fanboys. Cool down folks.

I've been one-click installing games through Steam, via wine, for years. With no troubles. Apparently I baked a wonderful cake quite some time ago.

"Proton" has never run a single game for me that didn't run through vanilla wine. In many cases, vanilla wine runs a game that "Proton" won't. I don't see that being in favour of "Proton".

Semi-support from Valve has already proven to not fully work anyway.

...and you know who you are, trying to pass an insult off as a joke is silly. Please drop it.

Now, it seems many have troubles that I've never seen. As in, I could do everything with a button click already. What stopped that for others before?
:sick:

Please do this test on your local surroundings and share the common answer with us.

Find Windows users ( not hard )
Show them both normal Wine usage vs SteamPlay
And ask them which one they prefer.

If it comes out as they pick normal Wine usage , then i will apologize ok?

Majority of Steam users ( which they are Windows ) cannot tolerate manual usage.

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"Proton" has never run a single game for me that didn't run through vanilla wine. In many cases, vanilla wine runs a game that "Proton" won't. I don't see that being in favour of "Proton".
Isn't that normal when using upstream Wine? You sound like Proton cannot run a single game but Wine can run all games. Before people go through all of their backlogs , newer Wine versions ends up in SteamPlay already.