Hm, would be fun if the game provided Turing complete option to dynamically alter its own behavior using in-game methods ;)

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Great milestone, but excitement about freesync is a bit premature. Two major parts are still missing:

1. Vulkan support (neither radv nor amdvlk support it yet). So it won't work in any Vulkan games, including Wine+dxvk.
2. Wayland scenario. Not sure if anyone implemented that in common Wayland compositors.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ShmerlIsn't AGS using Allegro still? So I don't think it's going to help.

Oh, you’re right, my mistake. I was a while ago that I tried to make AGS games work correctly. Now I just avoid them like the plague.

They really should have switched to SDL 2 a long time ago, and they even planned, but nothing came out of it so far.

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I'd recommend just ditching such games. Don't feed MS even by running Windows in VMs.

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Quoting: GoboWell, I guess the main point about BattleEye and other cheat protections is spotting and prohibiting the tinkering with the software. And running the software through a layer that does not want to be called emulation but essentially is doing exactly that is a whole lot of hackery that sets off a lot of alarms in BattleEye to flag your PC as an unsafe and compromised environment.

How do they decide, that native Linux environment isn't doing some stuff because it's customized? Nobody stops you from building a custom distro. The whole idea of "anti-cheat" is very moot really.

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Quoting: rea987That's odd, BattlEye previously supported Arma III which was an eON port. It looks like VP's ports are compatible with BattlEye than Proton.

This is because VP used the native BattlEye.

Can't the same be done with Wine? I.e. create some library which interfaces with native one through Windows shim? Their answer doesn't make sense. If it works natively on Linux, it should be able to work in Wine as well in theory, as long as they implement what's needed.

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Sounds interesting. I hope they'll release it in DRM-free stores too.

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That's a great project, which will help quite a number of not very recent games that aren't updated anymore.

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Quoting: GuestOh this is great, it might make some AGS games playable.

Isn't AGS using Allegro still? So I don't think it's going to help.

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So why is it Steam only, if they even made it free now?

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