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Latest Comments by tpau
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
22 Dec 2023 at 5:16 pm UTC

I never had a problem with the good binary drivers NVIDIA provided.
It was just a bit sad that you couldn't try experiments like the gallium-nine driver because NVIDIA didn't adhere to standards.
Maybe with the new approach we won't have these problems in the future. Although i doubt that anyone will do a directX or OpenGL driver without Vulkan anymore^^

Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now
16 Dec 2023 at 10:09 pm UTC

would have been nice to have a proper battle.net fix for the cef crash.

Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux
1 Dec 2023 at 6:17 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: GuestIt seems Bnet has been breaking fairly often as of late. It's a shame since I remember it being one of the more reliable ones in WINE;
I'm not too surprised, honestly, since they're Microsoft-owned now. :dizzy:
Wine blames CEF, the chromium embedded framework. Sounds like it isn't necessarily Microsoft at work here but just a Chromium Framework <-> wine incompatibility.

Wine 8.20 brings DirectMusic improvements and preparations for Wine 9.0
13 Nov 2023 at 8:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

With every release a little bit more works and i should do my periodic Mafia 3 test to see if it lost its black textures already when not using VKD3D and DXVK as translation layers :whistle:

Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 released with plenty of essential fixes
7 Nov 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC

What do you mean by web/electron support?
You can watch Netflix and Disney within Heroic and it is build on this framework.

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
22 Oct 2023 at 2:07 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI have settled on using bottles for everything except steam (of course) and gog native linux games. I didn't find myself "at home" using neither Lutris nor Heroic
can you tell me why neither of the 2 feels right for you?

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support
22 Oct 2023 at 1:31 pm UTC

Galaxy on Windows because it integrates GoG and Other Stores like Lutris into a common interface.
Heroic for Linux to get Amazon, GoG and Epic Games running there.
Steam for SteamGames as that is hard to reimplent
Battle.net via Wine for Activision/Blizzard Games on Linux, but i hope we will eventually get an OpenSource implementation for this. The reverse engineering is amazing for this company down to private servers for World Of Warcraft and mods abusing bugs in Starcraft 1 :wub:

Haven't gone down the path of Emulation too much so i think i don't need Lutris that much.
Maybe i am used to do it all manually with wine in the past:whistle:

Microsoft completes takeover of Activision Blizzard as UK CMA approves new deal
14 Oct 2023 at 6:25 am UTC Likes: 1

Hopefully we will still be able to use the battle.net launcher and won't be forced to switch to ms game pass.

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered heads to Steam from Aspyr
14 Sep 2023 at 5:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Looks a bit brighter but not visually pleasing. A remake would have been my choice here. I think people already demonstrated that as a sparetime project

Heroic Games Launcher 2.9.2 Hotfix #2 is live
14 Sep 2023 at 9:05 am UTC

You still have ms gamepass, battle.net, ea launcher, ubi, Rockstar Social, Legacy Games and a few others ;)