Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThere is a Lutris script, for example for Battlefield 4.

On the other hand I don't get why people claim it's hard to install DXVK. It's actually, as mentioned before, pretty easy. Create a Wine Prefix and either install DXVK via script in that or just copy over the two DLLs. Nothing hard about that.

You just can't say that's easy. For any average Windows user for whom everything has always been just a double click away this can be a show stopper. Even for me that's not easy, I consider myself an advanced user as I used to handle Windows very well and have managed to game on Linux for more than 2 years now.

But when you say "create a Wine Prefix" I know that will require me to search the Web to find out how to do it, it'll most likely take me half an hour or more to understand and do that. Then I'll have to install DXVK via script, which again is not easier than a double click, and then again copy 2 DLLs and put them in a probably hidden folder.

Maybe you're in there for so long that you don't see why people claim some things are hard to do in Linux ^_^

You are right if someone is coming from windows linux seems very complicated bc as you say they are used to double clicking and just pressing next when prompted. The closest linux gets to that are deb files but that is pretty much for basic productivity software rarely games.

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Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTOh lord, please don't get me wrong, this message is not exactly targeted at you or someone specific, but as mentioned before it's easy. It will take you less than a minute. And if you consider yourself an advanced windows user, you should have knowledge about the cmd / power shell, thus not being afraid of the terminal. Even if you google for "How to create a wine prefix." the first result will already tell you. This will take you 5 minutes of googling on how to create one and maybe 5 more on how to make use of it.

Assuming you use a debian based distro (Debian, Ubuntu, some more...) open a terminal (CRTL + T) you could do it like this:

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK

1. Create Wine-Prefix (64bit / x64 in this case)
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot

Note: The prefix is named "dxvk" like this. You could name it however you so desire.

2. Download dxvk-Release (0.42 in this case)
wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz

3. Extract the archive and change into the x64 directory
tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/

4. Install dxvk in your desired Wineprefix
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

At this point you are already done. Now you can execute e.g. .exe-files in this prefix:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine BLAHBLAH.exe

If you don't want to type the prefix in all the time, just do:
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk"

...and as long as the terminal is open you will always refer to this prefix.

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK in one command
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot && wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/ && WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

...which will only take a few seconds.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, I'll try this tonight. Could help as I tried installing Lutris yesterday and something's wrong, altough I have Wine installed (checked in terminal via wine --version ^^) Lutris doesn't see it in the list of Wine runners.

When I say I'm an advanced user it's just that I'm able to look for solutions when I get into a problem, which average Joe won't bother doing, but when I find a solution I'm just stupidly copy/pasting what I found, I have no idea what the instructions you just gave exactly do for example. It's nearly black magic and I could as well paste a code telling my computer to wipe itself clean without knowing it :D

And by the way I don't Google for information as Google is more evil than Microsoft to me. I think any Linux user should use Qwant or other more privacy friendly search engines ;)

Did you install the wine version via lutris or via command line it may explain why it cant see it

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Quoting: ArehandoroOf my 47 wishlisted games only 5 are on sale... Either I have a really weird taste or majority of people have no clue about games. Will go for the latter just in case xD

Am guessing the bulk of the users on gog went for new releases and probably windows only games

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Quoting: GuestHeh, maybe time to give it a try again... What's the advised way to install Steam ? Specific prefix ? Tweaks required ?

Hmm, not sure I want to count as a Windows user though ;)

Just a base install of steam on wine, honestly quickest way is to use lutris because then you can instantly choose the latest build of wine from manage wine list tab.

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoCan someone try to run Street Fighter V. The results from winehq are too old...

Yeah no tried and got excites when screen changed to black then back to desktop

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Wow the progress Wine has made is amazing game that couldnt even run are now not only running but either playable or at the very least start

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Quoting: Praxach

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIs just multiplayer or I can play solo against the IA?

Just multiplayer. And one of the more annoying features is the fact that you can't choose which game mode to join. You get put into a random game.

That was one of the reasons I quit playing this game. I was hoping for a single player training mode so you could learn the classes outside of multiplayer.

You can choose what game mode you play you edit the settings select your preferred game mode then you will only ever play that game type also use the browse the community servers and just change game type. As for the classes if you have played a fps in the last 15 years you are good to go sniper/heavy/jack of all trades/damage & stealth class pretty much sums them all up the rest is down to postioning and learning which gun suits your play style.

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Quoting: ElvanexWhile not as fun as it used to be, it's still one of the better FPS games on Linux imho. :)

Its not as fun because the community went to shite which is a shame

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Yup will be added to my library as soon as its out a single player campaign too yeah def down I hate the fact there are no rts games like this around anymore.

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Quoting: ShmerlCheck this out (number of patches from AMD developers): https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/mesa/patches/ [External Link]

But is that actual AMD contributions or is it employees contributing code in their own time i get AMD just do not have the R & D budget of Nvidia but the work the mesa guys do is very impressive

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