12 years is a long time! I know what I'm talking about ... I founded a PC gaming clan 17 years ago (on 03.01.2004): http://www.BE-WA-RE.de [External Link] (german)

Happy Birthday, GOL! 🙂

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And don't forget to say ... the Rainbow Six Siege Ultimate Edition is currently available in Pro Subscription for a special price of 15,30 € (instead of 89,99 €)!!! The price is valid until 06 July.

Included in the Ultimate Edition is:

The game itself
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 1 Operators (Add-on)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 Operators (Add-on)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 3 Operators (Add-on)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Operators (Add-on)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Year 5 Operators (Add-on)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Disruptor Pack (Add-on)

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Interesting. I played Red Dead Redemption 2 in multiplayer with the Proton Experimental until the day before yesterday.

Yesterday there was the update for it. Was downloaded directly when I wanted to start the game. After the update, the game quit with an error message in the Rockstar Launcher. After clicking away the error message, the launcher continued to run endlessly without launching the game.

I then set it to version 6.3.4. And with that the game starts again flawlessly. I then played yesterday for a good 3-4 hours without problems.

It is interesting because the changelog under version 6.3.4 says the following:

Fix recent 2K Games launcher update

And under the Experimental version it says this:

All changes from Proton 6.3-4.

Well. But still really cool that RDR2 can now be started directly from Steam without problems.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatanyone on oibaf ppa? seems something is borked either on my system or the ppa.

Switched to kisak Mesa fresh a year ago:
https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa [External Link]

With the latest Mesa PPA and Proton Experimental I am able to play Red Dead Redemption 2 - even the Multiplayer. Out of the box. Nö further tweaks needed.

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Quoting: EikeLinux users like "give us big native games!".

Publisher gives big native game, Linux users like
* "It's not on Gog, I wont buy it!"
* "It has been on Epic store, I won't buy it!"
* "It's got an NVidia logo in the intro, I won't buy it!"
* "I already bought it months ago when it was Windows exclusive, I won't buy it!"

Not quite correct ... if the publisher had released the game on Steam as originally planned, instead of making it Epic-exclusive for 1 year, then you would have been able to
a) been able to play with Proton from the beginning (much easier at least). And
b) the native Linux build would probably have come much earlier ... precisely because Steam offers the infrastructure for it (Epic and the others just not).

Therefore, the publisher's decision meant a big disadvantage for Linux players in terms of availability of the game.

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https://steamcommunity.com/app/412020/eventcomments/1636418037462790200/?tscn=1548839950 [External Link]

Well ... in the meantime it's on Steam. But I was so pissed off at the time that I still notice it today. I didn't buy it when the Windows version was released on Steam (to play it with Proton). And I won't buy it now either. Even though one copy more or less doesn't make a difference. For me it's a matter of principle.

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Quoting: whizse"Mesa 21.0.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 21.0.1."

14 hours ago kisak ppa with support for 21.0.1 released:
-> https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa [External Link]

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Quoting: Liam Dawe]What are you hoping their next game announcement will be?

An equally-difficult-to-answer question. ;)

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Quoting: dibz(...)Personally I'm no beginner, not by a long shot, but I like a solid distribution that just works and tends to match my preferences out of the box. I personally recommend Mint for everyone.

Absolutely my opinion, too!

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Yesterday I wrote that at the Proton github-thread for RDR2:

Here is some positive feedback. I installed it again after a few months and tried it out.

Without any launch options or workarounds the game starts up to main menu from where I could also start and play the online mode (Free Roam) without any further action. Was just for 20 minutes in online mode. The single player was also running so far. But the online mode never started and always gave me an error "(0x20010006)".

Proton Experimental
Linux Mint 20
Ryzen 5 3600
AMD RX 5700 XT
Kernel 5.8.18
AMDGPU + PPA kisak mesa fresh (20.3.1-kisak1)

I am impressed. :)

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3291#issuecomment-748984864 [External Link]

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