Good news Linux gamers wanting to play Windows games, as the Wine developers have announced a code freeze to fix up bugs and regressions for a big 1.8 release.
This is great, as they focus a lot on new features, but sometime I feel they personally need to step back and make sure they aren't breaking older games when focusing on all the news ones coming in.
Here's to hoping Wine 1.8 is a good release. It could be something we need if years down the line SteamOS doesn't do much for us.
This is great, as they focus a lot on new features, but sometime I feel they personally need to step back and make sure they aren't breaking older games when focusing on all the news ones coming in.
Here's to hoping Wine 1.8 is a good release. It could be something we need if years down the line SteamOS doesn't do much for us.
Quote1.7.55 is the last Version of the 1.7.x series. It's likely to see Wine 1.8 until end of this year. Until then we'll have weekly release candidates. Please give them as much testing as you can, you're also welcome to improve translations in case your language isn't perfect yet.Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Still waiting for functional DX11 support. I wonder what will happen first. DX11 support in Wine, or official Witcher 3 release for Linux?
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Kallestofeles Nov 20, 2015
Quoting: ShmerlStill waiting for functional DX11 support. I wonder what will happen first. DX11 support in Wine, or official Witcher 3 release for Linux?Let's hope that there will even be a Witcher3 linux release... no news from CDPR about this whatsoever. :(
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Quoting: ShmerlStill waiting for functional DX11 support. I wonder what will happen first. DX11 support in Wine, or official Witcher 3 release for Linux?
I don't think this will happen at all. At this points it's obvious it's gone the way of Mad Max and Batman: Arkham Knight ports.
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boltronics Nov 20, 2015
Quoting: KallestofelesLet's hope that there will even be a Witcher3 linux release... no news from CDPR about this whatsoever. :(
Or a GNU/Linux Galaxy client. They've said "coming soon" for well over a year - a blatant lie.
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Quoting: maodzedunQuoting: ShmerlStill waiting for functional DX11 support. I wonder what will happen first. DX11 support in Wine, or official Witcher 3 release for Linux?
I don't think this will happen at all. At this points it's obvious it's gone the way of Mad Max and Batman: Arkham Knight ports.
Is it really confirmed that neither of these titles will come to Linux though? All I've read about either one is hearsay, speculation and pessimistic assumptions.
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Quoting: FeistQuoting: maodzedunI don't think this will happen at all. At this points it's obvious it's gone the way of Mad Max and Batman: Arkham Knight ports.
Is it really confirmed that neither of these titles will come to Linux though? All I've read about either one is hearsay, speculation and pessimistic assumptions.
Werll Batman is still showing on the Feral Radar thing for mac and linux releases so I personally would assume that is still being worked on given that Feral would probably be fairly upfront if that had been cancelled.
I also assume in the case were work is being done by an external porting house such as Feral & Aspyr, that once the contract initiating the work has been signed then it is pretty much fait acompli, as most of the profit that Feral and Aspyr get is from sales of the ported product so cancellation by the original developer would I imagine if the contract is secure would result in liquidated damages due to the porter for resource costs that now will not be recouped.
Internal ports are another matter, the costs of aborting can be justified if they dont believe the long term result will be a net benefit either finacially or in the form of 'Goodwill'.
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Quoting: FeistIs it really confirmed that neither of these titles will come to Linux though? All I've read about either one is hearsay, speculation and pessimistic assumptions.
Shmerl told in the forum that he recently got this answer from CDPR when asking aboout Witcher 3:
> We don’t have any new information unfortunately.
I cannot imagine that they would give such an answer if they never intended to port Witcher 3.
I can hardly imagine such an answer if hey would have given up on it either.
It might mean something like "We have somone trying, but are not sure it will work out."
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Arehandoro Nov 20, 2015
DX11 implementation would be great. I still have faith in The Witcher 3 and on the Galaxy client Linux versions too.
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I'd interpret that as quite hopeful for "Batman" and at least no reason to despair about TW3. That leaves "Mad Max", that as far as I know has only had a *very* unofficial notice about it's cancellation. So no use giving up yet there either. Knock on wood.
I'd interpret that as quite hopeful for "Batman" and at least no reason to despair about TW3. That leaves "Mad Max", that as far as I know has only had a *very* unofficial notice about it's cancellation. So no use giving up yet there either. Knock on wood.
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Batman makes no difference - the game is just terrible performance wise. With the typical Linux drop of performance I don't see it working out in a good way. I know most of you don't follow the Windows gaming news, so to give you an idea: you probably heard the game was pulled from the stores for 5 months so that they could "fix" it. Well - fix it they did not, as it continues to be a stuttering and crashing mess for a large part of the players. Things are so bad a few weeks back WB announce they'll give full refund to anybody who owns the game regardless of how much time they've played it. In other words, till New Year you could technically buy it, play it and then get your money back if you really wanted to. And today they officially announced there will be no SLI/Crossfire support because they couldn't muti-GPU to perform properly. Basically they're throwing in the towel.
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