Updated my CPU last year. No regrets...

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Quoting: silmeth

Quoting: CorbenWhat? PUPG natively on Linux? Without Easy Anticheat, as you cannot cheat on Stadia? Or how does that work? I mean if you connect to the PUPG servers, they are checking if the client runs EAC, aren't they? Maybe the Linux native EAC client.
But the PUBP devs already said, no native Linux support, at least not for end users... so I guess they won't release it on Steam.

They probably just exempt all the clients connecting from Google servers’ network from the anticheat check. Or all clients with some secret key that is present only in the Stadia builds. Or something like that. Anyway, I would guess that the Stadia clients don’t have any client-side anticheat software and the PUBG servers just let Stadia clients, and only Stadia clients, connect without it.

As Stadia has crossplay with consoles I suspect that those servers doesn't have easy anticheat check as they are "console only" servers.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: detroutI thought most of the reason big companies don't want to support Linux is they don't want to deal with the support costs of a fragmented ecosystem.

Shipping software to a managed compute environment is easier, and I bet Google is probably handling the end user support. (Google might even have paid EA some to get them to provide games too)

Two reasons
- Developers only target the hardware Google has, far less support costs
- Stadia has full backing from Google of course, and clearly already has a market - the Linux desktop basically has Valve and they're now focused on a compat layer

I can add a third one for games like PUBG:

No more anticheat software required.

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Never mentioned it but: The driver selection for AMD GPUs is debatable. You can actually use proprietary and OSS drivers at the same time. Anyway, I can't remember the last time that I used proprietary for gaming (normally I just stick on it for OpenCL).

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I worked for five years with a T430 + workstation dock. Best laptop/workstation ever!

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Steam has the market but not the infrastructure. Google has the infrastructure but not the market. Microsoft and Sony already have both but resists to offer it to their premium users. War is coming...

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There is people on W10 reporting a crash, just like on Linux.

In my case I've been testing the game with -force-vulkan and I only got one only crash while walking a hallway (never had a problem while shooting). After that I decided to use the args listed in Steam discussion and never got a crash (but I didn't play long enough to be 100% sure).

Long story short, I think that it may not be a 100% related to Linux the issue.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerThanks but if only this could be easier... the scale of those instructions for a simple thing once again make me dizzy :dizzy:

Could it be possible to integrate somehow, someday to Lutris?

I suppose a snap or a flatpak solution wouldn't be of help here?

If all this sounds difficult to you, bare in mind that you can also use zoom effect of your DE. That's probably the easiest solution without perf penalties.

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Quoting: knroWith NVidia latest drivers here but getting Vulkan Error!

steamoverlayvulkanlayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

What to do?

It's that all the output you get? That "error" can be considered a false positive as it just says that the loader failed to preload that library (I suppose that the game is 64 bit and as Steam always preloads both 32 & 64 overlay shared objects you get that message for the 32 bit one).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWeird. The definition sounds like a straightforward, fairly intuitive thing. What makes them so hard?

The infinity combinations you can get and that they aren't easy to read. IMO is one of the most powerful tool for text search but also a dangerous one (the day you create your RE it totally makes sense and it is hyper intuitive... six weeks later you want to cry).

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