The GamesCom demo was already feeling pretty much like a playable thing. Even with more than 5 hours of gameplay! And I didn't even see everything (It was pointed out to me there were some more little quests/activities). People were asking if it was already released as it did look like a finished game.

So I'm very interested to see what the Kickstarter playable demo will be like.
Though we'll have to wait for a native release until 2021, I'm sure we can play it with Proton in the meantime. Can't wait to get my hands on it! Though I have to wait now a month longer.

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Quoting: Torqachu

Quoting: CorbenCEG protected executable.

Like Warhammer 40.000 Space Marine... is no good playing with an "alternative" exe...

CEG and mfplat are my number one foes. :><:

I was only successful with Aliens vs Predator (2010), where you can use the CEG protectd executable from a wine or windows steam install from the same machine. If you then also fake the date (on some days the game crashes, on certain days it works flawless), it works in Proton. But that didn't work yet with any other CEG protected executable. Well, at least those games work flawless in wine Steam.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CorbenAliens: Colonial Marines

Oh? Now this I have to see.

Edit: Eh I guess it needs some .NET fixes? Doesn't load.

Maybe not only .NET but it's also a CEG protected [External Link] executable. I used wine for this and installed D9VK manually, to get Steam running I was using -no-cef-sandbox as parameter for Steam.

But people report it installs fine with Lutris [External Link] as well.

edit: you can see the Alien shader glitches in a VOD here [External Link].

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I'm especially interested in the fsync fixes. Damn that gave me a hard time with Beat Saber, as the game itself runs perfect with fsync. But custom songs didn't load properly. And I didn't make the connection to fsync, as the game was running great with it. Took me a while to find out...

Also seeing D9VK is coming a long nicely is really great. The only game I used it for so far was Aliens: Colonial Marines, and the FPS are way higher with D9VK than with wine's dx9 implementation. There were some shader issues on the Alien models with 0.13f though, but still nicely playable.

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No Man's Sky (experimental branch seems to have improvements for nvidia users, no workaround needed anymore)
And Beat Saber...

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To get this compiling on my Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS I had to install these packages as well:

sudo apt install cmake libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxrandr-dev

And yep, this gets rid of all performance issues with pancake mode (non-vr, didn't test VR yet). Approaching NPC vendors on stations, approaching planets... all now at ~60 FPS for me, where I had below 20 FPS for the NPC vendors and even below 10 FPS when approaching planets.

From what I've read, this is something the game is doing for nvidia cards that works on Windows but differently on Linux. Also their Vulkan engine is pretty fancy, which is surfacing some bugs in SteamVR for Linux.

But as Hello Games are really cool (and they've always been), I guess they'll take a look into it!

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And there will be a Kickstarter campain starting on 9th september.
Oh my god... this looks soo incredibly good! Did you see the kraken?
Will see what they have playable on gamescom tomorrow!
I even brought a Movemaster :D

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Thank you very much for creating the game, Zapa!

It's very cool to see devs really caring about Linux and gaming on Linux.

So I'm happy to have bought the game, especially as I am big space game fan ;)

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Interesting side effect: looks like the steam client is aware of all available Proton versions, no matter if a particular version is installed or not. At least I could select 4.11-2, but it wasn't installed at all (4.2 was installed). So a game with force-selection 4.11 wasn't starting anymore, and I was pretty confused. Until I realized I had to install it manually from the tools section.

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Quoting: Sil_el_motdon't work at all. but there are still not many games that run for me. beatsaber and the ones from croteam. do you have more luck?

K, I've read of one case so far that it was working, all others also report: though it's shown in the audio settings, it's not generating any input.

I've recently also only played Beat Saber, and iirc there is a new issue regarding the controller input API (#2836 [External Link] which has to be fixed in Proton, but I was playing before in VR with Proton:

• The Solus Project
• Superhot VR
• Rick and Morty - Virtual Rickality
• Doom VFR
• Elite Dangerous
• Space Pirate Trainer
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew
• Subnautica
• Beer Pong League

I still have more games to try in VR, but Beat Saber is taking already enough time to get up and running (mods, mixed reality view, etc) and it's still addicting way too much. It might be possible that some games break with SteamVR and/or Proton updates though.

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