Quoting: adolsonOK, so now we just sit back and wait for the market share to rapidly and magically increase... Or we watch as people keep making excuses as to why they can't switch to Linux. I'm glad some of you are optimistic, but this just feels like history repeating over and over and over again. 2019, the year of the Linux desktop! For real this time!!!!

better than nothing
i dont think, that it will go so fast, but have you thought linux would ever have AAA titles like tomb raider or hitman?
a lot has changed with steam on linux since 2013. i think thats the next step. lets see what the next 5yrs bring

maybe valve can push it a little bit by taking less money for VULKAN games, so companies have a good reason to use this API. i mean doom and wolfenstein run great with proton i heard. what if GTA6, assissins creed 33, cyberpunk 2077 have vulkan and perform as well as doom on linux?

more VULKAN games, more fun on linux.
more fun on linux, maybe more linux users in the future.

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Quoting: ktatar156I've tested Steam Play with: Tropico 4 and Fallout: New Vegas. Works almost perfect, only one bug found in both games - I don't know why, but I cannot select my native language (polish) in options...

do you have this option on windows?
steam says: english, german, france, italian, spanish, (korean)

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Frostpunk

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is it possible to install the windows version of a game, which has linux support?
i have games with linux support, but they dont work. 12 is better than 6, iron snout and dead island dont work after i updated kubuntu

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that.... could.... change..... everything......
now they all have to use VULKAN. did anyone tested WOLFENSTEIN and compared it with windows?

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just make battlefield clone already!

i would love that. i like tanks, but this huge maps have so much potential. and of course its for linux and with VULKAN it runs great

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: mylkaisnt that what vulkan should be? vulkan was made to bring games to other OS.
id software told us how easy it is to port doom to linux. maybe someone can ask feral interactive how much work it would be to port RotTR/mad max from the LINUX VULKAN version to a Windows VULKAN version. that would be very interesting

Vulkan is not a SDK, is just a graphic API. Unfortunately, porting an application to another OS is not just about the graphic API.

Don't get too exited people, it could be nothing.

of course, but all engines need to support this SDK
it is more likely that all engines suppport vulkan, because vulkan is open
and as far i know it should be easier/make less trouble porting a game from one OS to another

i mean vulkan already exists and it has proven, that it works great on linux and windows. (big) game studios just need to use it instead of DX

something new means back to the beginning

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Quoting: GuestCould Valve be creating an SDK for Steam?
Developers will no longer need to target the OS, and instead just code games direct for the Steam API.

Now that would seriously shake up Microsoft.

isnt that what vulkan should be? vulkan was made to bring games to other OS.
id software told us how easy it is to port doom to linux. maybe someone can ask feral interactive how much work it would be to port RotTR/mad max from the LINUX VULKAN version to a Windows VULKAN version. that would be very interesting

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: mylkawont start for me
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing

i think thats the ubuntu16.04 bug i had with steam. but now i have 18.04

Nope, they messed up with local libs (libgcc_s.so to be exactly). You have to go to the game folder and create a symlink to your local library. This is what I did:

$ mv $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/insurgency2/bin/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.game
$ ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/insurgency2/bin/libgcc_s.so.1

With that fix, the game should start flawlessly from steam.

works. thanks

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: mylkademo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Installing a package that should be called "libxcursor1 [External Link]" might help?

its already installed

Quoting: mariuz

Quoting: mylkademo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

you need the 32bit versions of libXcursor

dpkg -S /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
libxcursor1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1

sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev:i386

you might find the other libs with

ldd Gibbous_Linux.x86

that helped, but then i needed
sudo apt install libxrandr2:i386

now it starts, but crashes after the unity screen

"Searching for joysticks with GUID" .... a lot of joysticks

edit: i tried this demo
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/real-time-tactical-rpg-city-of-the-shroud-has-a-linux-demo-build-available-for-testing.12333
same error. searches some joystick... logitec, xbox, saitek, etc and crashes

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