Which reminds me, I should play Fallout New Vegas. I've bought it on one of the GOG sales but never played it before. From what I've heard, it's supposed to be the best of the Fallout games.

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Quoting: adamhmThe Saboteur [External Link]

What annoys me there is the map bug, that apparently GOG somehow fixed on Windows, but it's still present in Wine.

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Not bad. I see a clear influence of Freelancer. And available on itch.io? I'll probably buy it.

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Did SDL solve relative mouse cursor positioning issue on Wayland?

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Quoting: ScooptaThe difference is wine users = windows users.

Wine users = Wine users. Whether anyone cares to measure that or not, is a question to them. Developers who make officially supported Wine wrapped releases probably do measure it.

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Quoting: ScooptaYou make it sound like all feral is doing is wrapping the game. You do know they do real work right?

Define wrapping. It's far from trivial obviously. Unlike Feral's code that we can't really see the source for, we can see it for Wine, and you can get the impression how complicated it can be.

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Quoting: ZybersunHowever my patience is not infinite. How does AMD compare to Nvidia now in the graphics area? Price, speed, etc?

AMD is competitive driver wise (Mesa), but somewhat lacking hardware wise on the high end if you value good TDP. I think the later point should improve with 7nm Vega. I can't really comment on prices - they are all over the place, because of the mess caused by cryptomining craze.

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Quoting: jensThanks for the discussion and have a good, depending on your timezone, day or evening.

You too.

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Quoting: jens"With our insignificant market share we should combine forces and not encourage competition.

Closed projects don't encourage combining forces by their very nature. If Feral want to combine forces, let them contribute to Wine, or open source their own wrapper so it could be used by developers with any game, rather than ones they authorize.

Since that's unlikely to happen, I see Wine as an increasingly important competitor. And for the reference, Wine can be used as a source wrapper too, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide [External Link]

TL;DR: If you want to see collaboration, make sure your effort is based on FOSS.

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Quoting: EikePlaying Windows games on WINE is as opposite to native as playing on Linux can get...

This is going in circles, since same can be said about playing closed wrappers. Companies that funded those releases didn't want to make native ports because it was a cheap method. So decide whether you are OK with that or not.

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