Really disgusting news. I have zero expectation of MS continuing DRM-free Linux releases.

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Quoting: LeopardThen which graphics api they use on Mac? Probably Metal. Is it really possible that so many Metal experts around? I don't think so.

Good point. If they hired one, they should have hired one for Linux as well.

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Unity and Unreal are using shaders in HLSL and then compile them to whatever target like DXBC or SPIR-V or translate into GLSL if I understand correctly. Their shader translators and compilers had some problems in the past. Remember how many problems Everspace had until they were ready to release the Linux version? So while engines are improving, it doens't mean they are hassle free.

I can't really evaluate what issues developers encountered in this case with the engine, but at least their comment about multiple distros is not convincing. However their point about requiring OpenGL expertise is correct. If they don't have OpenGL/Vulkan experts and can't afford them - too bad really. Gaming company should have them.

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At the same time, I'm surprised Unity for Linux has so many issues that developers don't want to use it.

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On the bright side, recently released Steel Rats will get a Linux version [External Link]:

It's Unreal, and yeah - we're working on Linux version.

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Good to see that they now know to test their releases on AMD too. All developers should do that.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Some people mentioned something about consoles and a new publisher, which is a more credible reason to me.
interested to buy when all the episodes are complete so hopefully it will be sold again at some point.

That's quite crooked if true. I have no respect for publishers who are pulling such junk.

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The game is very buggy, may that's why they are removing it?

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Quoting: ShmerlBuilding it is quite easy too, so you can do it yourself.

You don't have to build it at all. :)

I don't see why not, as I said, it's easy. To get setup_dxvk.sh script you also need to build it. Other options like winetricks (and I suppose Lutris) replace binaries, instead of making symlinks. Symlinking helps updating dxvk in one location, in order to update it for all prefixes that are using it.

Debian package provides setup_dxvk.sh as well though, so with it you don't need to build it. But building it yourself unties it from the distro upload schedule.

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Building it is quite easy too, so you can do it yourself.

Debian already has dxvk winelib version packaged (that's another easy way to to keep it up do date): https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dxvk [External Link]

Interestingly, dxvk repo includes compiled Vulkan library for Windows, to avoid making an extra dependency build I suppose?

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/lib/vulkan-1.lib [External Link]

It creates a slight problem for Debian packaging dll version since it's a blob (even though the source for it exists), while Debian requires to work with sources during build.

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