Good news, but for best experience it would be wise to wait a few months until most of bugs in the game are fixed. Then probably buy the game on sale.
Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#142To be perfectly fair, it’s working on Linux natively. Since it runs on stadia. I was part of the efforts of putting The Division 2 on stadia and it really is “just Linux” for the most part. The elf binaries ran essentially flawlessly on my linux machine (although my machine was under powered for the game.) Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.
Stadia is bad, fortunately it's an Alphabet's baby so one day they will axe it without warning.
I actually had a lot of fun playing Stadia games.
I think FPS and reaction type games are not it's strengths, but some third person action / adventure games have been super fun. Sometimes I forgot it was not running games locally. Impressive tech.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The elf binaries ran essentially flawlessly on my linux machine (although my machine was under powered for the game.) > Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public. That's an improvement over not having a Linux port at all, as it reduces the investment needed to publish the game to Linux eventually. Once the Linux gaming market is big enough, studios might consider to release the game.
I'm not sure that's much of a distinction between not available and nearly available. Rumour is, WoW had an internal linux client for years, and that didn't help gamers. That said, I wonder if being low-key not released multiplatform might actually mean there's likely less compatibility issues when playing with wine/proton.
WoW ran fine under Wine many years back, building a native Linux client would not make much sense.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#144Not quite. I tested this and it crashed about 15 minutes in. Also there are graphical errors like missing faces, no sound, T-posing NPC's, etc. I'm using both the latest stable Proton and Experimental.
I'm also noticing a massive performance drop (in comparison to Windows) on my RTX3080. Which is amplified even more by lack of DLSS option.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public. Do you know why? Linux is my primary OS and it always breaks my heart when companies decide to not support it.
Because if you start to support Linux you actually have to support all the major distribution (Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) with their different idiosyncrasies, package format, libc implementations and/or version, etc. Basically your testing coverage explodes exponentially. That's why in a former gig the team I was part of decided to go from Linux to only Windows since it way easier to test only for ~3 majors…
I disagree. Steam officially supported only Ubuntu for the longest time. I'm not sure if they still do that, but this is a possibility.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it makes sense for developers of games like these to even support macOS. Apple's ARM chips are pretty fast but their GPUs aren't capable of rendering intensive 3D games at native resolutions yet, partially because Apple's displays are so high-res. Previous generations Apple devices all had GPUs in them that I honestly consider lacking for the price you pay for the hardware. The best macOS gaming rigs I…
> Apple's ARM chips are pretty fast but their GPUs aren't capable of rendering intensive 3D games at native resolutions yet, partially because Apple's displays are so high-res. I don't think people really care about running the games at native resolution and the Mac Mini doesn't even have a native resolution.
I can confirm that I do care about native res as a mac user and heavy gamer (but I mostly end up gaming on windows for obvious reasons).
Scaling has never failed to look utterly terrible for me. Scaling from eg 1920x1080 -> 2880x1800 looks utterly awful, even on a 15" display. It's not so bad on 3D rendered titles for the 3D content, but for 2D elements such as the GUI it's awful.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#147It's a shame they went 1st person. I know that some people have a different opinion (e.g. [1]) but unfortunately, I immediately get motion sickness with any 1st-person game, but curiously not with 3rd person games. I loved The Witcher, and was really psyched when Cyberpunk 2077 was first announced. Kinda bumped that I won't be able to play it now, but I guess such is life. [1] https://www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-…
Yep, I'd also love a third person mode for this game. Not even for motion sickness, it just feels wasteful to put so much effort into character creation and then basically never see your character during gameplay.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you work for Stadia? How is Cyberpunk doing on that system? I'm hesitating buying it there instead of on console.
I'm running it on GeForce NOW with all settings turned to highest possible (Ultra where possible, High, and one Psycho). I also have ray tracing on Quality mode and I am at an utter loss for how well this thing runs. This is the first game I've played through GeForce NOW and to be honest...I'm not sure if I need to drop money on a new GPU like I had planned to. I really wanted ray tracing support to replace my aging…
Isn't it possible to play under linux directly using chrome or chromium?
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#149To be perfectly fair, it’s working on Linux natively. Since it runs on stadia. I was part of the efforts of putting The Division 2 on stadia and it really is “just Linux” for the most part. The elf binaries ran essentially flawlessly on my linux machine (although my machine was under powered for the game.) Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.
If I have a 2019 Macbook Pro and want to play Cyberpunk 2077 without buying a PS4, should I use Stadia or Geforce NOW? Is the MBP powerful enough to run it natively on Windows?
What controller should I buy?
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer
#150I am sure many will applaud this but it encourage developers to not bother with an actual native build as it tells them that Linux users will be happy with "proton compatible". Games don't run as well IME (even ones where they claim it runs as well or better). I've given up with Games on Linux.
If a game runs fine with Proton, what does it matter if it's not native? Either way you get an experience that's tested against a Linux based system.
They don't work properly. Things like alt-tabbing out of the game crashes the game for example, or performance with streaming is utter shite. So it doesn't run fine.
The few games I have native linux ports for, I can alt-tab out of and I get consistend performance.