Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

FrojoS wrote: post #38

kungtotte wrote: post #32

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One thing that's important for Linux gaming is that games played under Proton on Steam are counted as Linux sales, so publishers and developers get accurate statistics on how many Linux gamers there are. If the market is big enough, cross platform development is viable from the start.

On the other hand, if the Windows version works fine with Vulcan, why go through the trouble of making a Linux version?

Post by fctorial » Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 12:24 PM UTC

eptcyka wrote: post #44

ekianjo wrote: post #21

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A lot of games now don't work because of anti-cheat technologies. But Valve is working on this with Codeweavers with their refactoring of NTDLL.

The most egregious anti-cheat stuff is actually implemented in a windows kernel driver - I'm not optimistic about this being resolved without first party support for Linux.

Post by SSLy » Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 12:25 PM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #48

minetest2048 wrote: post #17

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Note that as the character ':' is reserved in NTFS, Proton cannot create its wineprefix in the NTFS steamapps/compatdata directory. To solve this, you need to symlink that folder to a filesystem that support filename with the character ':', such as ext4. More info here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/82#issuecomme... Windows and Linux can…

I'm having the same issue on my PC. It runs multiple OSes and I'd like to share the Steam library. I've settled for Ext4FS, which works on all the Linux distributions, but not on Windows. I wonder, has anyone tried to get this to work? There's at least 3 options: Ext4FS (Ext3/Ext2), NTFS, and Btrfs (which has a Windows driver as well).

Post by Zhyl » Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC

LeonM wrote: post #60

cannedslime wrote: post #29

I really hope I can play all my games on linux one day. Right now I only play Age of empires 2 definitive edition, anybody knows if i can play it ranked on linux?

I have all versions of AoE in my steam library, currently none of those are playable on Linux. Not surprising since the games are developed by Microsoft. You could try Wine, I haven't tried that.

Post by fctorial » Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

merlinscholz wrote: post #3

mosselman wrote: post #2

Valve is doing god’s work when it comes to Linux gaming. I have played over 40 hours of GTA V without many troubles. The game looks great and performs great. So glad I could get rid of my windows install.

I've had the same experience with Doom (2016). The most irritating thing was the reduced input latency on Linux, which threw me off for the first few hours. After getting used to it I only boot to Windows for UWP games.