Well, that's a visual novel games that treats us as adults and makes us think. Good writing. I hate being infantilized by games :) (and yes, violent supposedly "mature" games are often infantilizing !)

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Yeah, RA is pretty complicated to set up but... BUT ! It enables you, when properly configured, to get an absolutely ZERO input lag experience (even less than the original systems in some cases) when using "runahead" + KMS + wonderful combinations of pixel shaders to mimic CRT screens, improve the picture etc. + have tons of other features (rewinding, achievements...).

This is SO much better than using the real systems on an LCD, or than using a raspberry, or even than using an FPGA machine. When properly set up !

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I did apply the fix but still get a framerate lower than 60 (like 40-50) even with vsync off, with an rtx 2060 and ryzen 2600. Is that expected ? (details; high)

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I have no idea what it's about and usually really dislike visual novels, but I insta-bought it because it's from Zachtronics ;)

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What I would love too is support for pixels shaders (crt-lottes + scalefx :-) and Munt (Roland MT-32 emulator). Those are present in some dosbox forks... :-)

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May I state the problem in a different way ? I'm not sure at all, just thinking aloud ! I'm referring to a specific case : France.

1) around myself, the only people using Linux are environmental / left-wing activists. It was the case 10-15 years ago and it still is the case today !!! (I don't know anyone who hadn't switched back then and switched meanwhile). So many people are still obsessed with Apple.

Even my friends who studied computer science all use Windows. (even though, believe me, the university was mainly using Linux / Solaris etc. machines in 2000). I remember a good friend, in 2000, who said : if we could reimplement the Windows APIs under Linux, it would be so awesome and I would definitely switch, f*** M$ !! Of course he's a 100% Windows user now.

2) These latters do play games. They do not seem to care if there are 1000* more Linux games now than 10 years ago : the fact is, it would have to work 100% as well as Windows with no other drawbacks at all at any rate for them to consider switching. I'm not even sure they would bother.

3) Myself, and the other "activist" profile I mentioned was already OK to cope with the drawbacks of using Linux, 10 or 15 years ago.

4) if we target the "mainstream", it seems we really have to reach a flawless situation where everything works perfectly out of the box under Linux. We are not that far from it... But well, that's a different landscape where the OSS philosophy is kinda... Drifting away IMHO.

5) if we target OSS enthusiasts / activists etc... The situation 5 to 10 years ago was already not that bad. We had a dozen of very cool indie games a years + emulators. Now, I have hundreds of Steam games and... Well, I'm not satisfied. It's like binge drinking. It doesn't sound 'right'. I fund tons of things I would not have in other conditions (huge polluting industries, huge studios...), and even though I get tons of indie games, there are so many of them, they have much trouble surviving. Dead Cells / Motion Twin is an exception !

Just my *personal* and subjective feelings.
I know, from an "objective" point of view, Linux gaming has never been as good. I just feel it's not really for me anymore. I feel it's actually making me an unhappy addict.

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