I think the renaming from Proton-GE to GE-Proton happened with rebasing it from Proton instead of Wine. So the last Proton-GE version was Proton-7.3-GE-1 [External Link] and GE-Proton's first version was GE-Proton7-1 [External Link].
Only a bit confusing :D

Great work from all contributors! From Valve for continuously improving Proton, From Codeweavers updating Wine, from doitjusin and joshua-ashton for DXVK, from HansKristian for vkd3d, of course from Glorious Eggroll for pulling in all the latest patches from various sources and bundling it into an easy to use bleeding edge Proton version and so many more.

And here are we... enjoying so many games that "just work" now on Linux, though they have initially not been meant to run on other platforms. Just incredible.

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We do have now (mostly unofficial) EAC support for some games. Fall Guys, Insurgency: Sandstorm, Apex Legends, Back 4 Blood (those come into my mind without researching). Though these are all games, where a cheater can ruin a session, but not really weeks of work. Nevertheless it would be interesting to see if now cheat devs are able to exploit the Linux system to cheat on these games, or if they are safe?

I did see someone cheating in Fall Guys recently, but I've heard that EAC didn't prevent cheating before they (tried to) enable EAC support for Proton/Steam Deck/Linux either.

Would be very interesting to know if there is some data on if people are cheating more easily on Linux nowadays. If Epic could collect this data, they could share it with Facepunch Studios, so they would be confident (or not) to enable EAC on a further platform.

But with Tim Sweeney's statement back then, they don't trust Linux for Fortnite with their Anti-Cheat... I'm not expecting much in that direction.

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Added my 2 cents as well. I don't consider it as begging, but as expressing interest. If Bungie still doesn't want to do it, because they're afraid of supporting a user base of 1 million+, okay (I know not every Steam Deck owner will get this game).

I had access to Destiny 2 now since a while via Stadia... and did not really play it. At least for me it wouldn't matter too much, but it still would be nice to have the option.

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: dziadulewiczPlease maybe put the ACTUAL link to Reddit more visible and outstanding; i had to look a long time through the many links in midst of the text :huh:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/xuonok/focused_feedback_linux_and_alternative_platform/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 [External Link]

The ACTUAL link is in there, in quotes with the full title of the post. I really don’t see how that’s hard to see.

Sure, if you read close enough, you'll find it. But maybe you've already heard about it, see the post here, don't wanna read the whole text, but still wanna add to the request and are just parse the text quickly for a reddit link... then it helps to have the "non-hidden" link somewhere. Media has trained people this now for years...

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Woah :woot:
Well, one step further with better implementations for nVidia users. If it manages to get on par feature-wise (e.g. supporting nvenc, async reprojection for VR, etc.) with the proprietary driver, heck yeah! If nVidia would only go the same way AMD did with their support for the open source drivers and community...

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicHere's an alternative way of looking at the numbers:

September 2019 - 0.83%
September 2020 - 0.94% (+0.11%)
September 2021 - 1.05% (+0.11%)
September 2022 - 1.23% (+0.18%)

I think this is even an important way to look at it, as according to Valve users are counted only once per year.

I don't know how they count the Steam Decks into this, my turn each year is August and though I had my Steam Deck by then, I didn't see a popup, neither in gaming mode nor in desktop mode. I guess they do it under the hood and you can't opt out?

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I'm pretty sad they are shutting down the service. I enjoyed playing on it, I had good performance, good visuals, good latency. And it enabled me playing games, I wouldn't be able to play otherwise. I've even been a pro subscriber from the beginning, nevertheless I bought some games there, e.g. The Division 2, Chorus, even Cyberpunk 2077 (before plagman2 tweeted about Proton support on day 1)... I completed Metro Exodus on Stadia.
My little son was playing with friends on a regular basis on our TV...

Yeah, I'll miss Stadia. RIP.

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And there is even a VR mod for it (in the works) :woot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mzQDQ-iiE [External Link]

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These iterations are very interesting to see. I also enjoyed looking at all the prototypes they've shown when the Steam Controller released.

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Hihi, that banner pic with the 3 eggrolls :woot:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNice! Definitely need to make some space for it now... I think Ray Tracing was the only reason I initially installed it in Windows.

It tanks performance of course, even below 30 FPS. But with DLSS, everything set to ultra, I get back to a decent framerate on 1080p: ~50 FPS (3070 OC, i9 9900).
Honestly though, if I don't pay close attention, I don't really realize a difference in visual quality. The game did look really great for me already without RT.

Before you need to search for the launch parameters:
VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command% --launcher-skip

Thanks CDPR for making the launcher skippable.

Live testing was done here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1584568336?t=3h39m30s [External Link]

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