Quoting: EikeThat's an interesting SteamDB page BTW...

Over 20.000 Linux games on Steam now. Remember well when I wrote an article about number 1000.

Cool progress within just 7 years!

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Quoting: EikeBTW, I've read that it makes also a gameplay difference for this game (and probably others alike): You don't just see enemies as a dot on some virtual device most of the time, but can turn around to actually see where they are!

I haven’t played this game much, but when starting one of the story missions in VR (on Linux), I felt instantly like being back in my childhood years seeing the original films for the first time on tv. Really highly recommend in VR if you had (or still have) at least a small interest in the original trilogy.

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From my own experience in software development: for the last 10% you’ll need 90% of the time. ;)

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Quoting: Liam DaweArticle updated to note Proton-GE and DXVK_ASYNC, which does improve performance a lot.

I think this is only temporary needed. Once Steams shader cache is somewhat fill and gets distributed, it should also be fine for other new players.

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Have a good and healthy end-of-the-year time!

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Having played yesterday for a few minutes, very nice to hear the characters speaking again. (English for me, though the Japanese voices are probably even better.) The voice-over itself is worth the game.

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Nice, don't know yet when to find the time (fortunately it's not that long), but already in the library :)

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Quoting: GuestWhat I was more referring to was that the Deck won't replace anyone already using a laptop, or a desktop, and so it becomes viewed as another device alongside existing electronics - like the Switch, or PSP. Certainly very interesting from a geek toy perspective, but I don't see it driving GNU/Linux adoption on the desktop unless people actually start to use it day to day in desktop mode (which phones offered, but nobody took up).

Yeah I see your point. One effect (additional to the overall improvements to the Linux stack as you already mentioned) might be this: Playing with the Deck people might get interested in Linux and they even like it. At the same time some popular laptop vendors are offering Linux as the default OS installation on their to be sold unit. May be the Deck might help to get some people to go for a preinstalled Linux on their next model.
Not sure if this is far fetched, but I'm certain this is a long game and no single action will change things from one day to another.

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Quoting: GuestIt's amazing how when a company senses a marketing opportunity like this suddenly the impossible can happen.

Releasing on GNU/Linux can't be done!
Oh, Stadia appears? Sure, not a problem.
Steam Deck appears? Sure, not a problem (especially when someone else does the work).

But, to be clear, I see this as the same case with Stadia. Capcom might well support (or not) the Deck officially (and if they're putting it on their official youtube channel, they support it now!) but it's only the Deck they support. It's not GNU/Linux desktop, and they aren't going to magically make native games available.

And I know that, for now, if it works on the Deck then it's likely to work elsewhere (so long as Steam is there). With Stadia though there was a community expecting more to come of it, and there wasn't. I think it's the same - the game is still a Windows title, Capcom isn't supporting GNU/Linux, they are only supporting their Windows game running on the Deck and nothing more.

Not trying to be a buzzkill; whether this is overall good or bad I won't comment on (I do have opinions there, but not writing them here at the moment). I'm just trying to get perspective on what the deal really is: to Capcom this isn't GNU/Linux, this is something closer to Just Another Console(tm).

For native Linux to take off, the number of gamers on Linux needs to go up first.

This is my point: at least to Capcom, and most companies, this isn't "Linux" (GNU/Linux or otherwise), this is Steam Deck and something entirely separate. There's no indication that users on the Deck will translate to more users on desktop, and thus more native titles. It could, but I personally highly doubt it will, and Steam isn't exactly pushing for it (they're pushing the Deck).

Well, to be honest, pushing for the Steam Deck is more than enough and I’m pretty sure that Linux will greatly benefit from a successful Steam Deck considering Valves approach until now. What happens in the future remains to be seen, but the world changes slowly, so I wouldn’t push to fast.
Actually I think to get Linux more on the table, it needs to be hidden at first behind a name like the Steam Deck considering how a lot of not technical knowledgeable people (which I guess happen to sit on the boards of bigger publishers) think about Linux.

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Those released header files are just a bunch of source code files useful for developers. They can be used to create a library that is compatible with NVIDIAs own implementation but somebody has to develop it first.
There is the DXVK-NVAPI project on GitHub that uses those interfaces to create a library which is supposed to be used with Wine/Proton like DXVK and friends.

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