Welp, time toplay through HL2 + episodes again.
This time on the deck

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Well in the end, wine is a collection of native libs.

But i see it like this: We are currently in a valley for native ports that would have come sooner or later after the end of the original steam machines. Proton has just accelerated this. BUT when the SteamDeck manages to break the hen and egg problem things will get better again, and Proton plays a big part in making the SteamDeck a success. So in this way Proton is also accellerating (or even making it possible) the way out of this valley.

If the steam deck is a success with a huge playerbase and windows makes the DX13 move mentioned in the previous post, then this is the point where developers need to finally make an active decission if they want to support the platform or not and can no longer rely soly on valve.

Still no guaranty for native ports, but at least they would have to ignore DX13 and use Vulkan, hurting M$'s monopoly in other ways.

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Sadly the humble bundle has no jokes on the bundle page this time.

Last time they sold sakura games, they had a a description talking about "buying it for a friend", or they expect to sell "none at all" ^^.

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Quoting: CorbenErm? Windows games, on ARM and Linux? So they have to go through 2 compatibility layers? Or am I missing something here? Like, did they create a native ARM version for Wolfenstein Youngblood?

edit: ah okay, in the video they state: "An ARM based version of the game is not planned for commercial release"... so yeah, they ported it. Impressive

Even if it was the windows version it wouldn't technically go through 2 compatibility layers at the same time but in parallel. What I mean: each line of code would be translated either via the arm emulator or the wine libraries.
You know wine is "just" a reimplementation of windows libraries, but this reimplementation can be compiled nativly for arm. So when a windows programm calls a windows library in this case, native arm code is executed, no need to emulate things.
Only thing need to emulated is the programm code between library calls which is compiled to x86 machine code. Here is where the emulation would step in.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismSounds like a halarious gag gift. Right next to Secret of the Magic Crystals [External Link] of course

Good excuse when someone sees it in your purchase history xD

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Quoting: EikeIs there a way to know the research patch has been successfully applied easily, like in the main screen or menu or such? Or do I just have to wait for the research results?

I think on the gallery screen you can tell by the number of unlockable cg's. If there are more then without the patch, the patch is working correctly.

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Quoting: LinasFor. Academic. Purposes.

F.A.P. Ofcourse, only with the "research" patch available from the dev website ;)

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickImagine it being Tencent or Facebook acquiring it, I'm not sure it'd be better, but I'm pretty sure it'd be a problematic.

Fun fact: Tencent is one of the six initial investors of discord. So I'm not sure how this works but I would guess they already own 1/6 of the company.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääWhat's good too, is that it's not an actual kernel driver with root permissions?

This driver seems running in user mode so it thinks it is in the kernel, but actually in a user mode process.

It can also be seen as bad. This effectively means that EAC is being kept happy while it's not being able to what is happening on the system. If it is now possible to create some sort of cheat outside of wine, then it would essentially an exploit. If this is possible on Linux, it would be possible on Windows as well. At best EAC would try to fix that. At worst, they decide that they might switch to more drastic options. While it's pretty cool that they managed it this far, I'm still not hopeful for the future.

Just imagin: cheaters taking code from wine to run it on windows to run cheats.
My inner troll wanting to see the world burn had a little giggle on that though xD.

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Quoting: MohandevirI really do like KDE... I might be alone on my planet, but there is tearing all over the place, even while gaming with Vsync ON. What have I done to deserve such a treatment?! :smile:

You can check the Display and Monitor -> Compositor -> Tearing prevention ("vsync") option.

I had also tearing problem till I found this.

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