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STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter has launched and Steam Deck Verified
2 Aug 2024 at 5:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Avehicle7887I think from a business perspective it's not viable for them to invest in a Linux version when the game runs fine in Wine (and probably better in the long run).
Yeah, I expected these porting companies to stop making native Linux versions once Wine reached quality level that it has now. I.e. dxvk / vkd3d-proton commoditized MS graphics APIs translation that there is no money in doing it as a service. Note that their efforts were lost to the larger Linux world since their technology was never open sourced.

Companies like Collabora are more productive in actually advancing many areas of the Linux ecosystem in a way that helps gaming too (and Wine too by the way). It's good they find ways to get paid for it somehow.

STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter has launched and Steam Deck Verified
2 Aug 2024 at 3:16 am UTC Likes: 1

I've never heard of Fanatical games store before. Is it very new?

Control your cooling on Linux with CoolerControl - v1.4 brings AMD GPU RDNA 3 fan support
30 Jul 2024 at 5:01 am UTC

Looks pretty neat. Will they package it for Debian? Looks like they have their own packages already so why didn't they submit it to the repository?

STALKER 2 delayed until November to fix unexpected anomalies
25 Jul 2024 at 4:42 pm UTC Likes: 3

Good pun, but I don't mind the delay if the game is going to be good too :)

Wine 9.13 brings more CMD.EXE engine rewrites, supports loading ODBC Windows drivers
23 Jul 2024 at 1:45 am UTC

Quoting: Cr1ogenThank you very much for answering!! If it's not a bother, would you have a tutorial on how to activate it? Thank you
You need to enable a setting for the prefix in the registry. For example import this kind of reg file (or set it manually):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers]
"Graphics"="wayland,x11"


That will load wayland driver ahead of x11 one in the prefix. Or if you use "x11,wayland", you can unset DISPLAY variable on demand for the same effect.

Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage in Vampire Therapist - out now
22 Jul 2024 at 6:35 pm UTC

Oh, they have a native Linux version on Steam? I was considering getting it on GOG in general.

NVIDIA talk up their transition to open source GPU kernel modules
21 Jul 2024 at 8:48 pm UTC

Quoting: TactikalKittySo is it safe to stay with NVidia at this point or should I still consider buying an AMD card if I upgrade from the RTX 3070?
I'd say you should consider that in the context of nova + nvk. If it can work for you - then may be. But otherwise AMD is still a better option. So if you are upgrading today - no question there, get one of the latest AMD cards.

Wine 9.13 brings more CMD.EXE engine rewrites, supports loading ODBC Windows drivers
16 Jul 2024 at 4:15 pm UTC

Quoting: Cr1ogenAny News with Wine wayland?
I'm using it now - it's good, though there are some issues related to Plasma 5 which I hope won't be present in Plasma 6 (Debian was a bit slow in packaging it but it's coming soon). But those are compositor related I think. Wine Wayland itself is already very usable.

Wine 9.13 brings more CMD.EXE engine rewrites, supports loading ODBC Windows drivers
15 Jul 2024 at 10:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

This is an interesting bit - Wine developers are considering moving from gstreamer to something else:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/5340#note_75745 [External Link]