Custom models will come out on November 25th.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFar as I can tell, nearly as many games are published Linux native as OS/X native, and they have at least five times our desktop market share.

macOS is controlled by Apple, so it fits the mental model of "there is a platform owner" for these publishers. They release for it even though macOS is horrible for gaming unlike Linux in general. So may be it's too pessimistic, but I view these publishers as very backwards thinking in general. Of course it would be easier to try to reason with some of them, if Linux will reach 10%, 20% and so on.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAnd expect it to remain that way until the Linux desktop share is much higher.

I don't think that's going to help. Let's say Linux usage will grow ten fold. It will still not be something (some) publishers care about, because it's not about market size alone as was discussed a few times already. Stadia's market size is smaller than desktop Linux one at present.

Publishers want to get extra incentives (extra money basically) to release for something that's not the vast majority. That's the main barrier I think. And do you expect Linux to replace Windows to become the vast majority? Only then such publishers would agree to release for Linux without those incentives. I don't think that's going to happen.

So let's say Linux will reach 30% usage. We will still be ignored by publishers which can only grok platform owner model.

I see two ways to deal with it.

1. Someone will step up as such steward of Linux gaming (Valve tried in the past, but currently isn't putting their weight behind that).

2. Just use Wine to handle all games released by publishers who ignore Linux (Valve seems to put a lot of weight behind this option now).

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Quoting: CatKillerThe list so far of games that have come to desktop Linux from Stadia is:

That's too short for Stadia being around for a year.

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Is there a list of games that came out for desktop Linux because Staida effort made it easier? Would be interesting to see actual examples.

Also, someone is still using Bink video? Why on earth when there are free high quality video codecs today?

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They can make some tool for importing older saves for that.

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Changed to 64 bit executables; 32 bit operating systems are no longer supported

Very welcome change. It was not a trivial thing from what they said, due to the need to rewrite the engine which actually was dependent on some 32-bit logic.

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Quoting: vityafxWhat makes you think the number of people using NVIDIA with Linux is going to decline?

The trend clearly shows where things are going:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&view=trends#GPUVendor-top

Quoting: vityafxIt has a better performance over AMD

Nvidia doesn't have better performance, especially with RDNA 2.

Quoting: vityafxrequires no dancing with drivers

Meaning it doesn't work at all with Wayland / XWayland?

Quoting: vityafxOpen is good, but working good is better

Exactly the reason not to use Nvidia.

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Started playing Aquanox: Deep Descent.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2BDepends, but generally much worse than it should be and the main issue is GPU-bound performance. It's kind of fine on AMD, but D3D11 is still usually the better pick when a game supports both APIs.

In AMD case, what is causing it to be worse than DX11 translation, just not enough optimization in vkd3d yet, or something inherent in DX12 itself?

It's annoying that on Nvidia it's a mess, but I expect Nvidia usage to continue declining on Linux, so in the long term this is probably not a huge deal.

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