Quoting: GuestWhile I know that there are some desperate people that will buy anything that can be launched via Wine and render at least 5 frames per minute, there is also a contingent of self-respecting gamers who want properly supported games. And they will wait for ports from Feral or first parties regardless of rating on ProtonDB.

OK, I also believe one should buy native ports, or at least wait for native ports that have been announced, before even considering spending money on non-native games, but, you're so very wrong about performance.

Games running under DXVK often have a good chance of working far better than a native port would. Sometimes not, but that's on a case by case basis.

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Windows store releases only from now on probably. So no gog, steam, probably no proton either.

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QuoteIt would at the very least, require them to test every single patch they do on a Linux system through Steam Play to ensure they haven't broken it. Anything less than that and I wouldn't say they were actually supporting it.

This. If they are agreeing to "support" it, they must be willing to field bug reports from users.

Other than this, I don't have too much of a problem with this approach. It's going to be good in some cases, terrible in other cases.

Having had the occasional Linux native game just stop working after a while, I've come to the conclusion that what I want more than anything is a library of games that keep working. So this basically means devs supporting their software one way or another.

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Glad to see more of this type of game. Lost many hours in mah yoof to the likes of Bubble Bobble, Rodland, the original Mario Bros. etc.

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Quoting: devnullHow long before Proton updates though :(

That's what I want to know too. :) I believe this bug is pretty much what is preventing LA Noire from working on Proton.

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I think we can thank the huge success of the Nintendo Switch for Vulkan's traction.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloRobots drink water, eat meat and build wooden houses? Hm. Isn't that a little bit odd?

They are preparing a settlement for humans.

Well, that's what they were designed to do, but they've gone rogue and now want to "be" human. In order to fulfil that desire it makes sense that they demand the same resources as humans. They probably have some way of converting this stuff to energy behind the scenes. :)

It does seem like the dev started out with a human colony game, but then wanted to make it more unique without completely changing the mechanics.

I imagine animating these bots is way less work than animating people. :)

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Quoting: Doc AngeloRobots drink water, eat meat and build wooden houses? Hm. Isn't that a little bit odd?

They are preparing a settlement for humans.

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Quoting: lucinosI propose one simple rule:

Do not buy any game that the developer is not actively testing it on linux. It is not that hard to just install a free linux distro and just run your game. If developers can be at least convinced to at least test their builds on linux that would be a huge win for linux as a platform.

Point: What if the key to making this happen is showing these devs that penguins are buying and playing their games?

Counterpoint: 1-2% might not be sufficient to change any company's mind

Counter-counterpoint: But maybe being able to play Windows games will help the 1-2% grow?

Counter-counter-counterpoint: If I were really witty, I'd have something clever here.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWarframe has a bug for me where the audio will get all garbled after an hour or so, like it's suddenly under water. Hopefully this will fix that too. It's a minor annoyance as it's easy to make go away, but still would be nice to have fixed.

WAIT! Are you able to run Warframe with Proton?

Yeah, the launcher is borked, but luckily some genius made a bash script that replaces the launcher. ;)

Follow the instructions here:
https://gitlab.com/GloriousEggroll/warframe-linux/tree/steamplay-proton

Game works really well, and the above script usually handles updates well too. I do sometimes have to add a "--firstrun" launch option in Steam after some big updates (just for one run), and also sometimes after big updates I have to replace Launcher.exe with the fake script again as Steam will overwrite it.

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