Quoting: CreakI am mostly worried about the reason why they dropped VR for an entire platform that has more users than Linux's. Obviously, financially, it makes little sense.

We can speculate as much as we want, we don't know the facts behind this choice. It is nice to see they chose Linux over MacOS, but why? Put in another, more positive way: why Linux won over MacOS?

Finally, this kind of decision may bite Valve back because it opens the door to a competitor that would support all three platforms.

It is all very hypothetical, that is why a rational of this decision would have been nice.

From my point of view reason is clear. Look on Steam hw Survey mac's graphics cards. Only minority has something dedicated plus only metal as graphic API, there is no chance that it can support VR games for majority mac gamers in near future.

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Quoting: Arten

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Quoting: ArtenAshes of the Singularity, i'm transhumanist who love RTS, so... this game is perfect for me. I only wish for another story DLC...

What Proton version and settings do you use to get Ashes of the Singularity running? Nvidia or AMD video card?

Proton 4.2-9 with AMD NAVI and DirectX 11 renderer. Without esync and with ACO. Right now, i don't have any issues with it.

Thank you! Works for me as well. Finally I can start playing it :)

Glad to read :-) Originally i Used 3.x, but after i tried build my own proton for bisect which commit break it, ended with this version. Sad part is, i don't know much about wine and don't know how force him specific version of mono, so i had steam proton 4.11, with wine 4.2 which try download mono and after that ended with error :-(

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Quoting: ArtenAshes of the Singularity, i'm transhumanist who love RTS, so... this game is perfect for me. I only wish for another story DLC...

What Proton version and settings do you use to get Ashes of the Singularity running? Nvidia or AMD video card?

Proton 4.2-9 with AMD NAVI and DirectX 11 renderer. Without esync and with ACO. Right now, i don't have any issues with it.

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Ashes of the Singularity, i'm transhumanist who love RTS, so... this game is perfect for me. I only wish for another story DLC...
Kingdome Come Deliverence.

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I'm little worried about this month Steam Hardware & Software Survey results, to be honest...

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I finaly play Kingdome come. I’m backer, but befor this year i had old 780ti and i wanted hight details and dxvk maturet also nicely. Second game which i play this weekend is Ashes of singularity.

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Quoting: CyrilDo you think this game still coming on Linux?

I hope, but how it is now, it is playable under proton.

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Quoting: GuestI knew it!These news were only a question of time. And I never bought that game. Seemed so much fun. I considered it
though. But now it's out of my game acquisition list permanently.I won't even play it using proton. It also really annoys me that epic's free game giving campaign. Soon they give rocket league for free! But I'm not easily bribed.
Epic games can keep their free games.I'm not interested.

I want to know what deal epic have with creators of "free" games. If epic pay them per gifted game, i think is better accept gift and never play it :-D

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Quoting: GuestAlready bought an AMD RX 5700 XT too late Nvidia.

Heh, i ordered it today morning :-D too late Nvidia.

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Quoting: vskye$999.00 is a really hard price to justify, even if I could afford it.

Try to say that on Steam forums, their replies goes from "you dont have a job" to "maybe it is time to move to another country".

These VR owners are just a bunch of 4ssh0l3es(not all of them, some has been very open minded and they know VR isnt for everyone, so Alyx should have a non VR version), they even speak that you arent a "PC gamer" if you dont upgrade your PC every two years. Also they automatically think that if someone doesnt like VR is because they cant afford it.

This has been a cancer since PC gaming exist in the 90s, a handful of people who had plenty of money to spend on the most expensive hardware is always attacking PC gamers that play on laptops and low-mid end hardware, when a game is poorly optimized they blame people for not "upgrading", the worst thing is they are a vocal minority, because Steam surveys show most people play on Laptops and low end PCs, worst of all, VR owners are even less than Linux gamers, but they are behaving right now like if they were an entitled mayority.

VR is expensive, Valve had 4 years to make it affordable but instead of that they prefer to launch an "exclusive" game, Index is their first solo VR product, but one could think that they experience with VIVE would serve Valve to learn that the first step was making VR accessible for most, but they preferred the EGS/Console way.

I don't think that non VR Alyx is real option for them. They need something which stadia can't compete. VR is that think, because lag, but how force people to prefer VR before streaming on cheap HW? Only with exclusivity, there is problem with price, but i don't thin this is real problem, you don't need own it. I hope for a new life for "LAN gaming centers".
Second reason is, VR is too different, using only one screen is easy, but if you design game only for VR, you don't need think about "And how they can do it with keyboard?", which means game can be better, without compromises. Think about how you can control both hands separately with keyboard and mouse,...

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