That's unfortunate. Have you talked to the people behind asus-linux [External Link]? They're not asus, but they might know what's behind the odd displayport behaviour on asus laptops

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Quoting: user1Too bad that WT has recently stopped working on Proton after working beautifully on it for some time (it now crashes after login). And I'm not touching the dumpster fire that is their so called "native port" with a ten-foot pole. Every time I was trying the native port it was a bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience... And again, bad experience.
When the native port still used opengl, the game was essentially unplayable most of the time. Especially in 2017, when it was a total glitchlag fest. And when it received the Vulkan renderer, the performance also wasn't that great in the beginning. The Vulkan renderer has of course matured over time, but the Linux client still suffers from occasional crashes and other issues. At some point you couldn't even set texture quality to high (WTF?!) And last time I tried the native port, it caused a gpu hang on my RX 580.

Sorry if it was a bit of a rant. Overally I love this game, but getting it to run on Linux is like drowning in a sea of grief most of the time and occasionally finding a few islands of happiness.

I've used the native port of WT since 2016. It works quite well on Nvidia, especially since they moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. I've used my integrated AMD GPU with it a bit too and it's fine - 20-30 FPS on low-medium settings was better than I expected while I couldn't get Nvidia drivers to work on the new kernel. I'm playing on Kubuntu LTS with HWE, so currently the equivalent of Kubuntu 22.10.

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Fascinating. Do you have WarThunder installed standalone, or via Steam? I've got it installed via Steam and never had this issue on Kubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, and previously on Peppermint 8.

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Quoting: d10sfanThat's a shame, for that game probably means a ton more dlc like what happened to prison architect

Yeah. Paradox games get great support but a flurry of DLC I can never keep up with

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAwesome news..... I use ProtonDB a lot when looking at games to buy in the Steam Sales.........

In a future update I would like to see a system to lessen the weight of really old reports........ when a game came out and it was borked but is now working fine the out of date bork reports still seem to bring the overall rating down...... Sometimes even to bronze levels........ This makes it really hard when using ProtonDB as you really have to open up the games page and look at the actual reports as you cant really trust the "rating" the game has on face value...........

For example...... Look at WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship..... [External Link]
It works great now at least on my system..... But 2 and 3 years ago it didnt seem to work at all...... And those now out of date borked reports seem to still weigh the overall rating down to "Silver".........

That's an interesting idea, but they'd have to weight it by hardware variety. So if there was an Nvidia driver report of borked and an amdvlk report of platinum, that should probably average to silver. If there is a newer report saying it's now silver on Nvidia, it might bump it up to Gold.

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Do you have a creator tag with Epic Games, Liam? Apparently they might have some kind of affiliate program https://sac.epicgames.com/en-US/overview [External Link]

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I played AoE III quite a bit. Can't find the base game installation CD these days... My favourite nation was Portugal, for their organ light cannons

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Quoting: MinuxOh my. Does this mean we might be able to change it for the close-sourced version soon?

If that's the case, it's not just exciting. It's finally a freaking game changer (literally hahaha). I didn't think this would go as fast. :)

Do you know if it's already possible to try it?

You don't yet get a usable OpenGL driver when using open source drivers on an Nvidia card. That's what Zink compatibility will be necessary for.

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The Bass fishing giveaway is a very well structured newsletter sign-up. It seems like they should get good newsletter signup conversions from it. You need to give them an email address, wait a week and verify you can receive emails on the address. Similar to GOG giveaways, but there I just re-disable the newsletter

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I didn't realize this game was still in development! I remember seeing it years ago

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