I used to love the total wars series, but no cross platform multiplayer is no deal. I'm still pretty pissed I only found out after wasting money I'm not getting back.

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Quoting: tofuheada question for people playing Cities Skylines: with all the DLCs do you still manage to play it?
I mean, I bought couple, and with every DLC the game gets heavier and heavier, even if I am not necessarily using everything in the map.. so currently, load time is HIGH, and it's on the limits of me able to play it even anymore.

what are the current real requirements for the game if you have DLCs installed?
or is my system just broken?

It might be mod related, I rarely install any mods. Loading times, while not in the blink of an eye are nothing I would actually complain about. Have all DLCs minus this one, mostly because after about 2500 hours there's not much to do anymore >_>

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Quoting: Goldpaw

Quoting: GuestIs Path of Exile only on Steam? Because otherwise I might nudge those talking about "Proton" that it would be better for it to run well under vanilla wine more than anything else (because that should be available from any distro package manager). I mean, it probably does (I don't play this game), just wanted to be more specific (it's a small detail perhaps, but in my view an important one).

Yes, it's on Steam! Won't show up in your library listing since it's free to play, but just search for it in the store, it's there. :)

It's a game running on DX9 and DX11, and for nearly all of us that means we're using DXVK and Esync to run it, both being enabled by default in Proton. I used to run it through their own launcher, but now it's working right out of the box in Proton, so I'm just going with that.

Still setting a few command line options to pre-cache things and collect garbage more often when running it though, since the micro stutter on linux is downright horrendous at times, and any little switch to improve it is a good one. This stutter comes from how DXVK handles shader compilation I understand, and unlike on Windows, DXVK has to wait for the shader to be compiled before doing anything else, so the stutter is worse here. We do have a cache, but until things are cached up - or right after a DXVK upgrade - you can get lagspikes that definitely will get your char killed. Which we all know sucks in PoE. Minus 10 percent XP. Yay. I think the stutter might be worse on AMD cards than NVIDIA, but don't quote me on that.

This is where the game running on Vulkan would probably be a life saver. Using a graphics API we have native support for would probably solve that "graphic APIs waiting in turn" stutter problem.

As said before, poe dxvk hack. Google it, I have no microstutter. Nor macro for that matter. My windows using friends do.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Ubuntu support? Currently it's too hard to run PoE on it.

Sorry, what?
Steam -> Steam Play -> Download & play PoE.
How is that hard?

I mean, sure, native would be even better, for performance alone, but PoE is definitely one of the best running games on Proton right now (at leat post Proton 4.2). Most of the problems reported on ProtonDB are actually bugs/performance issues of the game itself (like heavy stuttering when shit hits the fan) which happen on Windows as well.
I'd know, I played on both platforms for dozens of hours ;)

Actually, fun fact. Linux doesn't have to have the stuttering, it is windows where you have no choice. There is a patch for dxvk that replaces missing shaders with some rather ugly white/purple substitute. Works like a charm, haven't had a single stutter in over a year now. Google for poe dxvk patch.
I've played on both platforms for thousands of hours ;)

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