It's either java or javascript. And the two cultures hate eachother.
But in this case I bet it is java.

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Quoting: g000hDid this game come to GOG as a Windows-only title at some earlier point? Or is this a simultaneous Windows/Linux release on GOG?

Well,there is a 6 month difference in Linux release on steam and on Gog.
It's well worth it's money, it's a bit twisted and mind warping, like the frictional games, but less sickening so far. It's a habit of me to play games halfway. Probably because I never want a game to end.
Especially for the frictional games I wish I did not finish them. Because their stories usually are sickening and twisted.
Although I also witnessed the most sickening thing on GTA V, where I was expected to break someones knees as part of torture.

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That's great.

I already love the first "full nudity" game released on Steam.
But I also love them helping control the culture of other games. They actually now imply moderating is mandatory, which I think it should be. But handing that over to a 3rd ("independent") party is the best way, unless you already have a big moderation team.
And of course: you cannot make the same comments in a full nudity game forum as in a my little pony forum.
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Quoting: liamdaweSo yeah the Linux version did indeed not make it out today. GOG have provided me with a key, so when it does release for Linux we can take a look.

I was happily typing in the key, looked at my steam machine, and it said install.
They I removed some other games to make place, pressed install.
Then I remembered something, so I checked steamdb, and indeed, this was probably not the linux release, but a proton download. And no, steam did not say it was going to use proton.
I love proton, since I can play GTA V now, and it rocks.
But I really don't know what is native and what is proton. If I select linux native in my list, I get all games now :-(.

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And don't forget that cro-team has stutter-fixes for high end hardware that *only* works on linux because that was the only platform that allowed to peek into it.

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Quoting: dodrianPS. Imagine how good Steam Machines 2 will be! Just don't ask for Steam Machines 3.

But at least we can expect Steam Machines episode 1 and 2 too...

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\0/
Now let me look up where those keys are...

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Quoting: SolitaryIRC is not a place.

Actually, Zirc is a place (in Hungary :-). So if he mentioned Z.

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I think this is good:
1) Valve is pushing Vulkan. They clearly state: if you want good compatibility with all platforms: use vulkan, nothing else.
2) Using vulkan it takes the biggest burden against linux out of the way: a good 3D API
and controversial
3) This might install wine as middle ware for gaming. Both Windows and Linux have major problems playing older games. Try installing GTA up to IV and have it work... It's not native on Linux, and on Windows 10 it throws so much garbage in your face, you'd better give it up.
Proton and the controller compatibility would make Linux (or if it works on Windows too) *the* platform to use to play GTA up to IV(!).
Now the middleware needs to step down the amount of windows specifics, and concentrate on the gaming specifics.
Let Valve handle the lower part, and it would be fantastic. Games that you can install and play 10 years from now... I would love to play quake again. But I won't because I need to get all the data from the CD-ROMS, that means, I first need to have a player somewhere in the network.
Then I need to find the most recent quake engine and read how to set it up, because my original binaries won't work.
It would be like GOG, but working.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: DamonLinuxPLWell this is amazing news but I have been disappointed with such things many times. Worst of all if it will be a compatible profile for running games from xp/vista/7 in Windows 10 :D

You know, it didn't even occur to me (it should have) that it could indeed be for Windows games no longer running on later versions of Windows...

Actually that's a very common problem. In the end, running the windows game under linux on wine tends to give less problems than running the windows game on a newer windows or running the linux game on a newer linux.
And I am not talking about wow-win16, but all games that started on win32 always had problems.
Divine Divinity needs a directdraw to directx layer or something for windows(GOG), and it needs the original directdraw for linux to run good on wine (not available on GOG :-( ).
Buy a new win10 system and try installing any GTA up to GTA IV, and hook up a generic xbox controller. Good luck.
It will certainly eventually work though, but you have to be an expert in dll's and interfaces to know what else you need to install to make things work.
Even with the extra challenge that the screen is rotated on my WIN2, installing GTA IV EFL was pretty straight forward, if you don't use any of the wine installers, but just install steam, EFL.
The only thing is that I killed my wine install by trying to get the xbox controller to work.
Which is a well documented problem for GTA IV on windows.

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