Quoting: rcritOdd, I've put 40+ hours into Fallout 4 over the last couple of weeks and haven't had any issues at all with Proton 4.11 and the 440.36 driver, at least beyond the usual hangs on exit.

I'm on 440.44, the current long-term version. I'm pretty sure it's some kind of shader compilation issue, just from the behaviour: it only happens in certain areas of the map (downtown Boston, especially the eastern part... at least, so far; I haven't explored much of the south of the map, or the DLC) and during transitions to other areas, vkBasalt makes it worse, the sound keeps playing, and, as I say, the problem disappears entirely if I use WineD3D. Mind you, from the sound of Liam's update, it probably isn't anything to do with this fix.

It's not totally game-breaking. If all else fails, I can usually get past the problematic area with WineD3D (avoiding combat, which ain't easy at single-figure framerates) then switch back to DXVK, but it's annoying.

The only customization I did was to use protontricks to add a DLL override for xaudio 2.7 (which I should have done using env variables, meh).

Yeah, I did that, and then noticed the same thing. :)

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I wonder if that's the issue I'm seeing with Fallout 4 at the moment. I know it's far from the most stable game anyway, but there's a particular recurrent lockup that disappears under WineD3D (which is practically unusable, at least on my system, but it doesn't crash).

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The visuals are very reminiscent of early Psygnosis (Agony, Shadow of the Beast), aren't they? The gameplay could be a lot of things, though. Hard to place what it might remind you of.

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As I said, I don't think I bought any 2019 releases at all. But my wallet is definitely looking nervously at that list; Beyond a Steel Sky and System Shock especially. Also KSP2, although I'm not sure if there's been any word on a Linux version.

CKIII I'm not sure about. I feel a bit like I did when Civ6 came out: yes, it looks good, but I'm not seeing any compelling reason to spend hard cash on it when the previous release is still perfectly enjoyable.

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Quoting: kaimanEven including non-native titles, I'd be hard pressed to assemble a top 5 list of 2019 video games. I guess I could list the 5 least bad, as I did buy eight 2019 releases in total, but I'd really only want to mention games that left me impressed.

I don't think I bought any 2019 releases at all.

So, um... I really enjoyed the demo of SkyRacket, if that's any help.

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Great! Now all I need is a wheel.

Er. Santa's real, right?

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Quoting: RoosterHalf of my wishlist discounted.. My wallet is really going to hate this sale.

Everything on mine is. Ev... er... y... thing.

Help. :'(

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Quoting: GuestThat's why we use Linux.

Speak for yourself.

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Quoting: GuestIgnore = not develop games for.

So what, as long as people are using Linux?

As I said, even if Proton only manages to double the Linux market share to around 2%, I'd see that as a net win. But let's say, purely for the sake of argument, that as many as 25% of the people playing Windows games end up doing it on Linux instead of natively... how could that be a bad thing?

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Hmm. We'll see. I've always said it'll take a lot for me to trust Microsoft.

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