What's also fixed:
- Raytracing for nVidia cards in cyberpunk 2077
- EOS/EAC in Insurgency: Sandstorm

No idea, when these two things started to work with experimental, but they do currently not work with 7.0-4. This is awesome!

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Really a shame that another Kickstarter promise is broken like this.

I didn't back this, I missed the deadline by one day, but I would have backed it just because of the promise of a native Linux version. I still do prefer native Linux builds, and I want to explicitly support this effort.

But my stance has changed. I still want to support those devs who decide on a native build, but it's now more about, do I want to play this game? Is it a game I'm interested in and that I want to support? I probably will be able to play it on Linux with Proton. And that's what I'm now concerned about mostly. Does it work on Linux? And if devs decide on supporting Proton, I can live with that. Eventually this (among other reasons) is why Valve has made Proton.

Sure, it's not the same. It feels different. Especially breaking a promise is always a sting. And looks like in this case they didn't put in the proper research if a native Linux build will be possible for them. Maybe experience is lacking, maybe something they need is broken, many reasons possible. That they broke the promise is the real bummer. Not, that the game will still run on Linux, just now using Proton.

Broken promises like this is what kills trust in Crowdfunding. And that hurts other projects already now and will hurt more projects in the future. Of course you've read about the risks, you accepted them when backing... and you will back less because light-minded promises have been made and not fulfilled in the end.

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Together with Death Stranding and now Horizon Zero Dawn... despite its issues, Cyberpunk 2077 is among the best games I've ever played. During my playthrough I didn't expect any severe bugs, with Patch 1.5 performance got a lot better, while I've been playing it with DLSS before the patch and without after 1.5. It's a fantastic game! Story is awesome, world is immersive, characters are well written, incredible soundtrack... if you're into sci-fi open world games, this is for you!

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Quoting: scaineI've never once, ever, in over 1100 games, experienced a launcher which improved a game experience. I don't even read the text they inevitable try to force down your throat - there's a "Play" button and I press it, rolling my eyes.

Only launcher I can live with is the Elite Dangerous launcher. I'd prefer not to have it either, as it also just adds an annoying layer, but it has at least some benefits: It shows current server status, and it allows me to switch between Horzions and Odyssey while having both installed. But this one is the exception.

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They did it already with The Quarry. And on the first launch on Deck, it wouldn't start, though on the second launch. But it induced quite some stutter and jitter to the frame rate. The game works much smoother and better without the launcher using the same method to override the executable ran by Steam + Proton.

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Unfortunately due to the move to EGL, the nvfbc plugin doesn't work anymore as it relies on GLX. And it helped a lot with performance, when capturing the desktop. Need to check about performance now, but back then capturing Cyberpunk 2077 via window capture didn't always work (window was black), and desktop capture made the game laggy. So I tested nvfbc (with the nvidia-patch to enable nvfbc in the driver) and it was a blast! Easy to use, I could select one dedicated desktop (as I'm using multiple desktop planes) and no performance hit at all.

Maybe desktop capture is now more performant, but I haven't updated yet.

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Normally I get my survey every August 1st... but not this year. 2022 it was on the 2nd August.
Well, doesn't matter... I'm doing my part! :D

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I feel like it's worth mentioning, that the work that has been done behind the scenes so GE could pull it together isn't appreciated enough. People have been making fun of me for using Proton and not GE-Proton, because GE-Proton is so much better. They don't seem to understand that without the work of the Wine-, Proton-, DXVK-, VKD3D-Team is making, GE-Proton wouldn't be possible at all. Proton is the stable version, it has gone through QA from Valve so customers will have a smooth experience. GE-Proton is bleeding edge, pulling in the latest patches from various repos, it's so to speak the testing version where issues are likely to happen. Yes, GE puts in a lot of effort as well, and it helps to get games a bit sooner working on Linux, but don't forget about the developers implementing the patches to make games work. They deserve way more attention and appreciation than they currently get.

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Quoting: TermyDRG is agreat game, picked it up in the last sale.
Unfortunately, right after that it seems they released an update that made it crash randomly for some linux users - including me :(
It's really annoying and doesn't seem to follow any pattern. Sometimes it runs perfectly for hours on end, sometimes it crashes after 5min over and over again...

Random crashes are happening to me now with GTFO. As soon as I set "PROTON_LOG=1 %command%" as launch option, to maybe get an idea where it locks up... it's not happening anymore. So I suspect a race condition, which is mitigated by the active logging. Maybe this works for DRG as well? Could create huge log files though :)

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Congratulations on thirteen years!

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