Another detail was clarified, Stadia is using amdvlk.

I don't plan to use it, but I'm interested in how developers who release for Stadia view their options to release their games for regular desktop Linux in result, since Stadia will bear the heavy lifting of the porting work. Interviewing some developers about this could provide interesting insights.

We can probably dismiss legacy publishers right away. Even with above, they simply don't care about Linux users so I don't expect any of them to change their nasty stance because of Stadia to which they run for Google's money. However other developers (for example Paradox) can be more Linux friendly, and since their concern was expenses (rather than greed for more profits), Stadia can provide them the justification to release for Linux proper.

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This might not be enough to force Nvidia to upstream their driver, but it will for sure decrease the usage of their blob even further.

That's a good thing for Linux ecosystem and progress of Wayland.

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Just installed Mars: War Logs in Wine+d9vk. For the reference, you need to apply large address awareness modification to the game binary (for example with this tool [External Link]), otherwise it runs out of memory limits set by Wine.

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I think Two Worlds series is more of an Elder Scrolls style game. So somewhat different.

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Quoting: vectorIf you've enjoyed anything by Cyanide, Deck13 Interactive GmbH, The Farm 51, or Frogwares, then you might like some of Spiders' games as well.

I haven't heard of any of the above. These names are totally new to me. Looking at the style though, they remind me works by Piranha Bytes.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Technomancer has a decent story combat rpg the combat is not very strong but its got some depth, its a spiders game so it has bugs and performance issues. It is def a niche game but if you like spiders others games (bound by flame & of orcs and men)worth checking out for the price as its 14.99 on steam

Never played any of their games before, so can't compare. They are actually well discounted on GOG now (65% - 75% off). From what I understood, Technomancer is actually a sequel to Mars: War Logs, and some comment that the first game is more interesting.

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Some new DRM-free releases as well for Wine. Never heard of Mars: War Logs [External Link] and Technomancer [External Link], but they look interesting.

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For Vulkan in UE, keep track of this: https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux [External Link]

Until it's closed, it won't perform optimally.

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Second one is proper open world, instead of more limited and directed first game.

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Backed it!

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