That said, my 7800XT does 4K@120Hz just fine, connected via HDMI to my LG OLED TV. VRR (FreeSync Premium) works as well, and is active according to the TV. Don't know about HDR as this machine is still on X11.

It works in 4:2:0 (chroma subsampling) but not 4:4:4 (PC mode), which is a dealbreaker for productivity. It's fine for games as the impact of chroma subsampling is generally not noticeable outside of small text (like scoreboards).

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I'm not sure what kind of problem EAC is supposed to mitigate in a fighting game. The "threat model" so to speak is very different from other online games like shooters. Fighting games are fully deterministic and rely on both sides performing the same simulation, so if you were to modify your character's frame data to give yourself an advantage, you would desync and disconnect instantly.

The obvious candidate would be macros, but this is usually detected through other means (like checking if inputs are performed impossibly fast, or too consistently over a period of several games). Other common ways to cheat in fighting games (such as lag switches) aren't really the domain of something like EAC.

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Last month:

- Heretic + Hexen (only finished Heretic so far)
- No One Lives Forever
- Quake 2: Call of the Void add-on
- Expendable
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Midnight Club 3 (PCSX2)

This month:

- Unreal 2: The Awakening (it's a lot more fun with doubled player speed)
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (with Duke Nukem DLC)
- The Talos Principle 2
- Crysis Warhead (had to stop because it constantly crashes during gameplay, unfortunately)
- Ratchet & Clank 3 (PCSX2). I've already played this one when I was young, but it's fun to replay it ~20 years later.

Plus the usual rotation of "forever games": Trackmania, Smash Bros. Melee (Slippi), QuakeWorld, Toontown: Corporate Clash.

Patient gaming at its finest.

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It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?

There's a public server list [External Link] with many longstanding community servers, but there isn't really something like some of the huge Minecraft servers (e.g. Hypixel). The Minecraft community is so large that running a single server can be a company on its own with paid staff.

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It states that you can install early versions of Windows in it (3.x, 95 & 98 were mentioned)

This is possible because Windows ran on top of DOS until 98/Me. It's only with Windows NT/2000 that the dependency on DOS was dropped, which is why DOS mode was also removed in that version.

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Most of those have been given away for free at some point. I guess most people will just never check what they have in other libraries.

I just checked my EGS library through Heroic and saw that I already have the first 5 Fallout games for free, except I haven't started any of them.

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Does Max Payne even work in Windows these days? I don't think it does without some major fiddling.

It works on Windows 11 and modern Linux with a community patch on newer CPUs, since they no longer have 3DNow! instructions. Check PCGamingWiki for details :)

Fun fact: a similar fix is needed for 3DMark 99/2000/2001, as they use the same engine as Max Payne.

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Very interesting, could it be a solution to play old Windows 95 games and other 16 bits Windows apps that are not Wine compatible?

Yes, that's what it's designed for :)

Personally, I used it to run the Drakan and 3DMark99 installers as these are 16-bit and are basically impossible to run as-is on modern Windows/Linux. I then moved the extracted files to the host OS and ran them directly (the game is 32-bit and works well on modern OSes with community patches). You can also use DOSBox-X for this, since it supports Windows 95/98/Me too.

I did try to use tools like cabextract on the installer but that didn't work for me.

Does the guest OS can benefit from host accelerated GPU?

No, the GPU emulation is 100% done in software to allow it to be as accurate as possible. There's no passthrough involved; the OpenGL support is only here for scaling and post-processing shaders.

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Still no native Linux build? :-/

I think Valve saw the not-great state CS2 on Linux is in and decided to go all-in on Proton this time.

Proton could actually run CS2 (and even CS:GO) quite well, but the issue was always that VAC was eventually broken in WINE/Proton so you couldn't play online. There was a small period of time where CS:GO was playable online both on native Linux and WINE (there was no Proton back then).

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I wish they would be using av1 instead of vp9, but hey, at least it's something.

I'm guessing Valve went with VP9 because it's more compatible with older macOS/iOS devices. Apple only supports AV1 in hardware, and only on devices sold after 2023.

These days on the web, it's fine to ship VP9 without any fallback format (it's supported by basically everything), but this is not the case of AV1 just yet.

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