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3 May 2020 at 4:05 am UTC Likes: 1

Just finished TW3 main story. Now playing Hearts of Stone.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 11:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestOr a native port (I'm looking at you Cyberpunk 2027)
Looking forward to that. They are already investing in Stadia release, so making a proper Linux release on GOG won't be hard for them.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 9:51 pm UTC

Quoting: orochi_kyoBut you GOG users keep wishing GOG will use proton, keep wishing more devs will release more games on that platform.
I don't buy games in DRMed stores, so yes, I encourage developers to release on GOG and other DRM-free stores. Why do you find it strange? Not everyone accepts DRMed approach.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 9:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirSorry... I wrongly tought that GoG did provide support for wrapping/porting, in the past... It was probably Humble.
They actually did, but just for a few games. Then they dropped the effort, especially with Linux team in GOG dwindling.

Example of the game that GOG released wrapping in Wine themselves: https://www.gog.com/game/flatout_2 [External Link]

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 9:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirIn fact that's exactly what I look forward to: transparency. In the best of case, it could take the form of a Linux GoG galaxy client with Proton integration... Or, minimally, a Proton wrapped TW3 build, for example.
You can use community wrappers for that. See: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers_news_faq_discussion [External Link]

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 8:22 pm UTC

Quoting: LeopardThings that Linux GOG users are missing due to lack of GOG Galaxy:

-Cloud saves
-Multiplayer
-Achievements
-Auto updates
-Integration with other store fronts ( new GOG Galaxy thingy)
Most of which I don't care about :) Incremental updates for GOG games are supported by lgogdownloader quite well now. And for multiplayer I prefer game developers not to be locked into some store infra like GOG or Steam, but to support it independently.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
1 May 2020 at 8:03 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: MohandevirI would like to see GoG integrate Proton in some form... Maybe offer proton wrapped versions of their Windows games, if at all possible. I'd be a lot more inclined to support them. Having to deal with Lutris or wine is not something that I look forward to...
I'm using regular Wine+dxvk without major problems, sometimes with esync patches too for very demanding games like TW3. I know Proton has some extra patches like scaling and such. But what other benefits does it give besides Steam integration which is pointless for GOG games?

I avoid Lutris and other high level Wine managers, since getting to control Wine directly gives you a lot more flexibility. I simply make a launch script for each game, where various variables can be adjusted, like logging level, HUD enabling and such.

Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR
1 May 2020 at 4:50 pm UTC

Good to see progress on Index. A bit surprising Valve aren't backing Monado directly, like they are doing with radv. Or are Valve partnered with Collabora on this?

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows
1 May 2020 at 4:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

macOS is a DOA system for gaming. Quite expected. And Apple were doubly dumb by shooting themselves in the foot with their Metal NIH. Apple management doesn't care about gaming in the least.

Intel reveals brand new desktop processors along with their Core i9-10900K flagship
30 Apr 2020 at 4:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

You can see it's 14 nm since it boosts to 5 GHz still. On 7 nm nothing will be boosting to such frequency. AMD got ahead of Intel thanks to TSMC, and it's surprising Intel still couldn't get to smaller node process.