Trackmania, the 2020 remake, is heading to Steam and the developers have started answering questions like — will it run on Steam Deck?
Even more Ubisoft coming back to Steam, what a treat. Following on from earlier Steam releases of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, The Division 2, Immortals Fenyx Rising and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. From Ubisoft Nadeo, it will be free to play when it hits Steam on February 2nd, so you can bet I'll be giving it to a go so you know what to expect on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
Speaking on Twitter in their thread answering questions, they mentioned about the Steam Deck: "2. Can I play Trackmania with my Steam Deck? We are still waiting for the official review for Steam Deck from Valve to know if it is possible. From our tests, the game is playable on the device.". Nice to see some more official testing being done! Would be good to see more of that from Ubisoft and others.
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Why are Ubisoft coming back to Steam? The answer is clear: money talks. Ubisoft want more of it, and clearly they're not doing as well as they would like as mentioned in their recent financial statement from CEO Yves Guillemot: "We are clearly disappointed by our recent performance. We are facing contrasted market dynamics as the industry continues to shift towards mega-brands and everlasting live games, in the context of worsening economic conditions affecting consumer spending.".
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by lejimster on 27 January 2023 at 12:17 pm UTC
Quoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
I think ManiaDrive is an open source clone of the original TrackMania, which (I guess) got the idea from the Brøderbund game Stunts.
Unfortunately, the original TrackMaina is impossible to run using Wine because of the [StarForce protection](), which also makes it impossible to run on modern versions of Windows. So the only way to run it now is by using a VM running Windows XP (or similar).
I guess it should be possible to get accelerated graphics in an old VM using Zink or DXVK, but I haven't investigated if it's possible to do with Windows XP. Another way is of course to use GPU passthrough, but I guess new GPU's don't get XP drivers.
Quoting: hjahreQuoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
I think ManiaDrive is an open source clone of the original TrackMania, which (I guess) got the idea from the Brøderbund game Stunts.
Yes, it's a clone of Trackmania.
However, I didn't play the original TrackMania, so I couldn't compare them.
It was much more fun playing Maniadrive as something new to me on Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUR4WnjNVRQ
BTW, it's a song from Maniadrive.
Last edited by gbudny on 27 January 2023 at 3:46 pm UTC
Quoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
Now that website is a blast from the past
Quoting: MatomboQuoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
Now that website is a blast from the past
They are still working on the engine used by this game:
https://raydium.org/svn.php
Last edited by Tchey on 29 January 2023 at 1:40 pm UTC
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