Yeah, I made that screenshot before applying patches.

And I just realized that I'm running it without latest patches again, so may be staging doesn't include heap fix after all.

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All those intro logos / sword animation are missing. It goes straight into the main menu. It looks different, but I suppose it's because PS4 version has different art. Also, main menu has more options. After starting the new game, it hangs. Lot's of functions are missing implementation here:

https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/d3d11/device.c [External Link]

Such as:

d3d11_immediate_context_CSSetConstantBuffers
d3d11_immediate_context_CSSetShader
d3d11_immediate_context_CSSetShaderResources
d3d11_immediate_context_CSSetUnorderedAccessViews
d3d11_immediate_context_Dispatch
d3d11_immediate_context_DSSetConstantBuffers
d3d11_immediate_context_HSSetConstantBuffers

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Just don't expect it to be Bioshock Infinite. It's not (in many ways).

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FYI: Wine 1.9.18-staging already includes the patch for bigger size of virtual heap, and you can get up until the main menu.

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They retracted the statement that it wasn't planned. GOG rep who said that wasn't correct.

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They said in the past, that Linux version during development was possible, but not guaranteed. So I don't see major news here. I'm looking forward to the release however since I'm one of the backers (backed them when they announced plans for Linux towards the end of their campaign).

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Quoting: Guestbut somehow I feel the chances of that are extremely slim since we've heard them say before that they have no plans to support linux in witcher 3)

They said exactly the opposite actually (that they planned to make it for Linux), but they never managed to fulfill those plans so far.

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Quoting: wojtek88Is it correctly animated?

I'm not sure what is considered correct there (since I have nothing to compare to), but it is animated, yes. You can see sparks flying from the fire, branches moved by the wind and etc. There are no intro videos however or anything like that when you open the game, and some suggested they should be before the main menu screen.

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Quoting: sbolokanovI saw you in the W3 wine bug thread some time ago, what is the state currently?

Thanks to some helpful folks, I got a GOG key to test it in Wine. It's unplayable now. If you overcome the 32GB virtual heap limit bug, the most you can get to is the initial menu:

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I see. Yes, it's possible that attempted wrappers came out to be unsatisfactory, and that is what's currently blocking their Linux release. It's too late for them to make any native engine rewrite, and until wrappers will perform well, there is no point to release it. At this point, I think Wine has better chances of actually delivering playable TW3 on Linux. Even if it won't perform well right away, they'll gradually work on improving it.

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