Quoting: albertodvFor Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:o01eg/freeorion
sudo apt-get update

It includes debug symbols as well and supports x86_64, x86 and aarch64.

from o01leg [External Link]

It works in my Ubuntu 18.04 with my intel hd 3000.

I was about to say: "Ah, well, if they can't/won't package it officially for Linux, I've no interest in trying it". Now I have no excuse, goddamit! :)

Who o01eg is, he has my bitter respect!

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I've spent many, many hours playing the board game with two friends - but one friend is 45 miles away and the other is about 10 miles away. Getting the three of us together is challenging and we're lucky if we get three or four sessions a year! This year, to date, none at all... :(

It's kind of a shame that this digital version doesn't look it's going to support any kind of multiplayer. That would have been, literally, a dream come true. Still, it's a great game and I'll still be delighted to play it single player.

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Quoting: GuestIf GNU/Linux desktop becomes more widespread, then it would be very, very bad if Steam holds dominance on gaming for the same reasons - and actually worse, because a core concept of GNU/Linux is to be open.

But, while Valve can play a part, I always point out that Valve never did so much alone, but are standing on the backs of giants: wine, AMD (opening up drivers, donating Mantle to Khronos, and more), radv, Intel (their drivers always were open), nvidia (drivers and long time OpenGL support), Unity3D (engine support before Steam was even thought to be on GNU/Linux), and of course TTimo and iD Software. And more.

And yes, Valve has been heavily involved in Vulkan from the start, and has contributions to Mesa, X, and porting their own games across. Valve definitely help improve - but the foundations were already laid out.

On that subject though, Valve are nowhere as bad as, say, Apple. At least Valve do give back to projects that they use to promote their services. Apple infuriate me by leveraging well established open source technologies without ever contributing back. There are exceptions, of course. But few and far between. When you're the most profitable, multi-billion (trillion?) dollar company in the world, it's pretty despicable to not only not acknowledge the basis of your success, but to continue to leach from it without any kind of reciprocation. Apple won't get a penny from me, but I continue to support Valve's efforts and that won't change unless they undergo a massive (negative) shift in attitude.

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I think I still have my boxes for MW2 and its various expansions. They were truly superb games.

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I feel a little off about some of the keys I've obtained through Humble Bundles. I've sank about 20 hours into Subnautica now, which plays pretty well in Proton, but I got it as part of a bundle. And since it was Windows only at the time, I slid its slider right down to zero. And now here I am playing it.

Feels weird.

I guess I shouldn't feel that bad though - the Subnautica devs haven't raised a finger to support the platform, it's just a quirk of Valve's continuing push to support it. But still. Yeah, feels weird.

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I think I'd like a separate Wine and SteamPlay question. I wonder if it's even worth capturing (purely out of curiousity) a distinction between "playing Windows games through Wine" and "playing official Windows games seamlessly".

Like, if you don't tick the "Use Proton for all titles" box in the Steam beta, you can only actually download and play the officially supported, whitelisted titles. At that point, it doesn't feel like "using wine". It feels like just installing and playing an officially supported title, that happens to not have a SteamOS logo on its sales page (although I imagine that will come, if Proton proves successful and reliable enough).

So...
Do you use Wine (Wine, Proton, or DXVK)?
Do you play official Windows games using SteamPlay?

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Quoting: baccilusWhy are so many people testing games on older drivers?

Yeah, pretty frustrating. Especially since some of the functionality of Proton/DXVK actually relies on the most up-to-date Nvidia driver (assuming you're using NVidia).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: WendigoValve did a really clever move here to force game developers into cross platform development. Publishers will now have to make sure that their games run on all platforms Steam supports, no matter if they intend it to run there or not since the games were made available everywhere. Even though players get a notice when starting a game via proton I guess quite a few will still down vote a game that doesn't run on Linux or OSX, so the Publishers have 3 choices:

1) Do nothing and get a bad rating that affects their future sales of the game.
2) Make sure their game runs with Proton on all operating systems that Steam supports and hope that a future change in Proton doesn't break the game.
3) Do a proper cross platform port or develop future games with cross platform in mind and have control over the game's performance on Linux and OSX.

I guess the third option is the best choice.

If you think this is going to force publishers to support Linux, you are delusional. If you start leaving shitty reviews because stuff doesnt run well on Proton... the end result will be publishers will loudly complain to Valve about it, and force them to blacklist their game from Proton.

You dont get ANYTHING by being shitty to devs and publishers. Didn't Witcher 3 teach you that ?

Your language sounds like an attack, Jaycee. Wendigo wasn't suggesting that (s)he would do this, nor advocating others. It was simply an acknowledgement that this will happen.

And Witcher 3 did teach us that this will happen.

Hopefully Valve have a plan for when it does. Because of the nature of Proton, I can see a lot of potential abuse of the refund system, along with bad reviews, as Wendigo suggests. Buy a game, doesn't run in proton, leave a crap review, refund game.

I expect Valve will update their refund Terms of Service pretty soon...

Edit: [Terms of Service are here [External Link], if anyone's interested. And for the record, I agree with Jaycee that publishers/devs won't be forced into anything here, even by bad reviews - they'll just ask for that blacklist, if such a thing even exists...]

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Sorry if this has been asked before - is Proton going to contribute back into Wine generally? I suppose I'm asking if DXVK progress helps Wine more generally?

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I've been following Leafy for years - they do great updates on Youtube. But I hope they incorporate a tutorial soon. I played a bit of single-player as Captain and called in bots for the vacant roles and I had literally no idea what was going on half (most of, really) the time! It didn't end well... :D

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