Wine Staging [Official Site, Github], the testing area for future Wine releases has been updated today and it pulls in some patches that allow DOOM to actually run with Wine on Linux.
Notes
Wine Staging is highly experimental, use at your own peril.
I don't recommend buying Doom, since it is a Windows game, but it's good to know you have options available. If this becomes a way for dual-booters to stay on Linux more, then that's great.
What's going on?
The new DOOM game previously used Denuvo in the final release, which was one of the blockers for getting it working in Wine. The developers have now removed Denuvo, making this possible. Additional patches were needed, which a developer put up a few days ago, but now it's in Wine Staging itself.
In their latest news the Wine Staging said this today:
QuoteWine Staging 2.0-rc2 implements everything necessary to get DOOM (2016) running. Feel free to play around with the different features like Vulkan support and report remaining issues in the bug tracker.
You can find the install instructions here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The problem with Dying Light is that it doesn't work under Mesa at all due to using OpenGL compatibility profiles that Mesa does not yet support (and have no current plans to support), and the performance of it under AMDGPU-Pro is horrendous! When it can run under Wine, that will surely perform better. Heck, it couldn't be any worse!Thanks for the info. I almost asked one of my friends to buy it for me.
A game from a historically Linux-friendly developer, using OpenGL and now Vulkan, DRM dropped... and not working on Linux because of the policy of the publisher? No, thank you, not going to spend money on it.Aye, that's also a reason that holds me back from buying DOOM.
Last edited by crt0mega on 22 December 2016 at 9:17 am UTC
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I buy DOOM and before play over dual boot, now is time for play under Linux :-)
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liamdawe: "The developers have now removed Denuvo, making this possible"
Does this mean the wine developers or the developers of Doom?
Does this mean the wine developers or the developers of Doom?
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LinuxGamesTV Dec 22, 2016
liamdawe: "The developers have now removed Denuvo, making this possible"
Does this mean the wine developers or the developers of Doom?
The second one.
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Lordpkappa Dec 22, 2016
A native Vulkan version for Linux will probably runs faster than Windows...
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legluondunet Dec 22, 2016
Impressive!
I didn't know Wine support Windows Vulkan games.
It took time, but we can now say that Wine is a serious way for gaming on Linux.
I have a lot of windows game that runs very well with it.
The 2.0 version announce a mature version and support for DirectX10-11 games.
I didn't know Wine support Windows Vulkan games.
It took time, but we can now say that Wine is a serious way for gaming on Linux.
I have a lot of windows game that runs very well with it.
The 2.0 version announce a mature version and support for DirectX10-11 games.
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A native Vulkan version for Linux will probably runs faster than Windows...
Not sure, wine already makes native vulkan and opengl calls.
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Luke_Nukem Dec 22, 2016
So far this has shown there are three types of people.
The Die-Hard. These gamers won't buy unless there is a proper port or official support.
The Pirate. These gamers don't want to pay for a Windows version, but do want to play the game. They see nothing wrong with pirating it.
The Weiner. They dual-boot and still buy many Windows only games.
The Die-Hard. These gamers won't buy unless there is a proper port or official support.
The Pirate. These gamers don't want to pay for a Windows version, but do want to play the game. They see nothing wrong with pirating it.
The Weiner. They dual-boot and still buy many Windows only games.
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The Die-Hard. These gamers won't buy unless there is a proper port or official support.There's nothing die-hard about wanting official support for a product I purchase. It's just common sense.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Dec 22, 2016
So far this has shown there are three types of people.
The Die-Hard. These gamers won't buy unless there is a proper port or official support.
The Pirate. These gamers don't want to pay for a Windows version, but do want to play the game. They see nothing wrong with pirating it.
The Weiner. They dual-boot and still buy many Windows only games.
What means weiner? Google traslator doesn't recognize it.
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What means weiner? Google traslator doesn't recognize it."Wimp", IIRC. My spanish isn't that great but it might be translated as "pendejo" or "cobarde" (thanks, dict.cc.
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What means weiner? Google traslator doesn't recognize it.He means wiener. You know, the delicious sausage. Also a derogatory term. "Weiner" is a very common misspelling.
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Schattenspiegel Dec 23, 2016
So far this has shown there are three types of people.
The Die-Hard. These gamers won't buy unless there is a proper port or official support.
The Pirate. These gamers don't want to pay for a Windows version, but do want to play the game. They see nothing wrong with pirating it.
The Weiner. They dual-boot and still buy many Windows only games.
Where do I fit in?
I technically still have a Windumb partition.
I might have thrown a few bucks at the game if they had bothered to port or wrap it even though seeing the Bethesda intro logo usually made my left eye twitch for a prolonged period of time.
I stopped being a seafaring swashbuckler once I gave away my C=64.
Last edited by Schattenspiegel on 23 December 2016 at 12:32 am UTC
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Wine needs DX11 NOW..
It's not far off. Many DX11 titles (that don't have copy protection) seem to be working to some degree. Killing Floor, Watch Dogs and Grey Goo now run for example, although the graphics are somewhat corrupted. Other titles such as Dying Light continue to crash, but get much further into the game before ultimately failing with a D3D11-related error.
Give it a few more months. This is like the early days of Wine supporting D3D9 all over again - it's going to take time, but compatible games will gradually trickle down faster and faster over the coming year.
Add Subterrain to the list of working DX11 games. That one actually is very playable after setting "glsl=disabled" in winetricks :)
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What's with this trolling and name-calling?
You can play legitimately bought Windows games (i.e. with Steam client, Origin client, Uplay client) on Linux via Wine compatibility layer. No need to suggest that people who use Wine are "Pirates".
Also the derogatory term "Wiener" applied to people who dual-boot. Maybe they like the game so much that they are willing to put up with this. It is no different to all those hardcore gamers who buy a specific console because they want to play a particular game which is found nowhere else.
You can play legitimately bought Windows games (i.e. with Steam client, Origin client, Uplay client) on Linux via Wine compatibility layer. No need to suggest that people who use Wine are "Pirates".
Also the derogatory term "Wiener" applied to people who dual-boot. Maybe they like the game so much that they are willing to put up with this. It is no different to all those hardcore gamers who buy a specific console because they want to play a particular game which is found nowhere else.
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LinuxGamesTV Dec 23, 2016
...
What means weiner? Google traslator doesn't recognize it.
weiner = Weinen = crying. Weiner in German is incorrect, but will used from many.
You find in German Duden only: Weinerei, weinerlich and die Weinerlichkeit.
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LinuxGamesTV Dec 23, 2016
What means weiner? Google traslator doesn't recognize it.He means wiener. You know, the delicious sausage. Also a derogatory term. "Weiner" is a very common misspelling.
I don't think, thats he mean the Wurst.
Last edited by LinuxGamesTV on 23 December 2016 at 1:43 am UTC
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Comandante Ñoñardo Dec 23, 2016
What's with this trolling and name-calling?
You can play legitimately bought Windows games (i.e. with Steam client, Origin client, Uplay client) on Linux via Wine compatibility layer. No need to suggest that people who use Wine are "Pirates".
Also the derogatory term "Wiener" applied to people who dual-boot. Maybe they like the game so much that they are willing to put up with this. It is no different to all those hardcore gamers who buy a specific console because they want to play a particular game which is found nowhere else.
Agree.
Anyway. I think don't fit in any category because I don't do dual-boot; I have two computers, one with Ubuntu and another with a LEGIT Windows 7 pro.
And I have two Steam accounts.
The windows one and the Linux one.
If I can avoid the use Windows 7, I do it (Like I did when I purchased Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Dying Light, SOMA, Mad Max, Dead Island Definitive and other games for My Linux steam account and not for my windows one)...
But that is not possible to do if I want to play 2014/2015/2016 Big games from EA Origin and Uplay..
I don't blame big game publishers, I blame the big games Devs and their lack of Linux skills..
If the Devs from EA, Ubisoft, Activision or Bethesda, in their spare time and adhonorem, develop a Linux version of the Windows game they are making, the Publisher will not complain for that unpaid work.
OT: I am also considering to buy a PS4, because I know I am missing some good games. :)
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If the Devs from EA, Ubisoft, Activision or Bethesda, in their spare time and adhonorem, develop a Linux version of the Windows game they are making, the Publisher will not complain for that unpaid work
Of course they will. Publishers want to have tight control over what gets put out and they want no rogue versions on the loose. It also means support requests for a product they're not prepared to, and see no commercial point in, supporting at all. Plus, I'm sure most of these companies have strong ties to Microsoft and probably don't want to get on their bad side for little or no benefit (at least as far as they can see).
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OT: I am also considering to buy a PS4, because I know I am missing some good games.
I have one of those. Consoles are great. I know I'm not getting the best graphical experience there is, but I know I'm getting the best (and only) experience on my console and this lets me simply enjoy the game, instead of endlessly tweaking options, re-running benchmarks and wondering what piece of hardware I should buy to make the game that little bit better.
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