Is there a way to request this increased virtual heap patch to be included in wine-staging?

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May be will be ready in time for Underworld Ascendant and System Shock remake.

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In-progress, timelines long or uncertain

Not very promising in the short term, but at least it's moving.

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Quoting: KimyrielleProbably, yes. But the important thing is that they still -never- promised anything, e.g. announced the game officially for Linux. I cannot really blame somebody for looking into whether or not something is technically/economically feasible and then give up on it. If people buy games on the basis of sheer hope that they will get ported, they cannot complain if it doesn't happen.

Arguable. Steam posted 2 major ads about it which developers never refuted. So they tried to avoid giving any official promises, but their failure to refute those ads resulted in a number of people buying the game expecting to get the Linux version in the future. Whether it's a failed promise or false advertising is already not that important. They can still claim that that they'll make that game in N years, and those ads were never false since they didn't specify any dates. Who knows. But surely, people's expectations were ruined.

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Quoting: KimyrielleTo be fair, CDPR never officially announced TW3 for Linux. At least not that I know of.

At this point we can safely conclude (see here [External Link] for historic timeline) that they planned it, and even started working on it (or asked someone to evaluate the difficulty of it and etc.). That didn't work out for them as expected however.

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Quoting: KimyrielleMy personal approach is that I -do- pre-order or crowdfund games if the studio already managed to successfully release at least one Linux game OR can otherwise demonstrate me sufficient Linux affinity.

One isn't enough apparently. Look at CDPR. They released TW2 for Linux (or rather hired VP to do it), which came out pretty decent after all the bug fixes. But with TW3 they hit some major problems and despite all their previous indication, there is no Linux version in sight.

My personal approach - I'm not pre-ordering anything. If developers need money before making the game, let them crowdfund it. I do support crowdfunded games that plan Linux release, but whether to trust developers - is something I decide on case by case basis. It's always a risk though.

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Too many developers just don't plan for cross-platform development

I disagree. Doesn't look like too many are doing this. Some are, but in my experience, majority are keeping their promises (I'm talking about crowdfunding).

Also, I suppose as engines on Linux mature, this will be less of an issue in the future.

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Soundtrack: https://fixions.bandcamp.com/album/mother-russia-bleeds [External Link]

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Yep. Keep an eye on this changelog: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/history/HEAD:/dlls/d3d11/device.c [External Link]

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It is fluent, and there is no lag. It doesn't mean much - that render doesn't seem intensive. And starting the game fails anyway with many d3d11 functions missing.

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