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On the other hand, if the Windows version works fine with Vulcan, why go through the trouble of making a Linux version?
Precisely, and developing for Windows is much easier than Linux anyway because it doesn't suffer from the same "lets break userspace every 2 years" problem.
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.
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You are missing the point. The games do not work. As you said some install Kernel Level drivers (I believe this is a Ring-0 but I am not an expert in such things) as a Anti-cheat mechanism. These do not work with Wine/Proton. e.g. Doom Eternal worked fine until the first patch and then didn't once the anti-cheat was installed (for the non-existant multiplayer community). Then they removed it only after the fanbase he…
People are insane to begin with to install some rootkit on their system just to play a game.
Welcome to windows security.
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You are missing the point. The games do not work. As you said some install Kernel Level drivers (I believe this is a Ring-0 but I am not an expert in such things) as a Anti-cheat mechanism. These do not work with Wine/Proton. e.g. Doom Eternal worked fine until the first patch and then didn't once the anti-cheat was installed (for the non-existant multiplayer community). Then they removed it only after the fanbase he…
People are insane to begin with to install some rootkit on their system just to play a game.
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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.
From ProtonDB: Age of Empires 2 (2013) - Platinum Age of Empires 3 - Gold Age of Empires 2 - Gold Age of Empires - Gold https://protondb.com/search?q=age%20of%20empires
I have in my library:
AoE
AoE 2
AoE 2 HD
AoE 2 Definitive Edition
None of them show up in my Linux steam library.
It's cool seeing the tech develop to run D3D/OpenGL on Vulkan/DX12/Metal, moving a lot of code out of drivers and in to libraries. But in the long term apps should all end up using Vulkan/DX12/Metal themselves directly (or modern derivatives) - so there won't be many uses for the old legacy D3D/OpenGL stacks left, so these libraries will probably fall out of use too. So, nice for the short/medium term, but probably n…
How do we deserve Valve? Okay: Any possibility to support their open source work? (except of using steam)
http://open-prioritization.igalia.com/ https://www.igalia.com/2020/09/28/Open-Prioritization-Experi... https://bootlin.com/blog/tag/crowdfunding/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#employer...
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On the other hand, if the Windows version works fine with Vulcan, why go through the trouble of making a Linux version?
It's probably easier to develop proton support for a Windows than to port the entire game to Linux.
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From ProtonDB: Age of Empires 2 (2013) - Platinum Age of Empires 3 - Gold Age of Empires 2 - Gold Age of Empires - Gold https://protondb.com/search?q=age%20of%20empires
Haha, here I was thinking that I had 'all versions'. I have in my library: AoE AoE 2 AoE 2 HD AoE 2 Definitive Edition None of them show up in my Linux steam library.
Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play and tick "Enable Steam Play for all titles"
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From ProtonDB: Age of Empires 2 (2013) - Platinum Age of Empires 3 - Gold Age of Empires 2 - Gold Age of Empires - Gold https://protondb.com/search?q=age%20of%20empires
So not definitive edition ? :(