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Well, most games run through Proton aren’t officially supported by the devs. I don’t see how this would be that much different.

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I replayed through Splinter Cell 1 a few years ago on modern hardware with correct shadows, you need to get some fixes done but it's not locked to the ancient Geforce tech anymore. Once again modders fixed it since Ubishit doesn't care.

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From what I remember, it does dedicated hardware checks for the Steam Deck CPU and SteamOS.
While both are probably possible to fake, you run into the risk of getting banned whenever the anti-cheat gets updated.
Unless it's officially supported by the devs, it's better to just treat it as inaccessible under Linux.

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yeah super weird - I mostly play rpg's. Probably like 90%+ of the time. There were 0 references or recommendations for rpgs in my next fest home page. LOL steam what happened, have one too many last night and just phoned it in?

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LOL that's true!

So this'll be an interesting experiment. Here are the people I'm moving to Mint from win10:

1 - 44 yr old close friend - very tech savvy - mostly used for work - should be easy I think.
2 - his ~75 yr old mother - least tech savvy human being on earth - but only uses computer for solitaire and email, nothing else. I think I can make it work.
3 - 60 yr old close friend - medium tech savvy - laptop is older but works totally fine - I think this is the one I'm most worried about.

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How is it still running on Steam Deck? Does that kernel have some of this implemented? If not, can’t we just simulate a Steam Deck environment on the desktop? We’re already simulating a Windows env

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Do you play Janeway? Or are you the captain in the timeline where Janeway never existed/died/didn't join Starfleet?

Think I saw Chakotee and Janeway in one of the shots near the end of that trailer, so presumably you're playing her, as captain.

I didn't play the demo all the way through yet, but practically you're playing as Janeway as captain. Don't know if they're going to do some kind of switcheroo in the full game, but probably not.

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The problem is not specifically Linux users cheating, it’s Linux being a platform repeatedly abused by cheat makers to run them. So it makes Linux an easy target to just block. Low hanging fruit in the fight against cheaters.

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Age verification should be illegal. This world has gone crazy. The ruling cast is infested by predators.

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Yeah, that's promising, but apparently moving shadows are a separate issue - those needed the right Nvidia GPU (within 2 generations, I think) and correct drivers to render properly.

Early Splinter Cells are a massive PITA in this regard, and even assuming Pandora is now fixed SC1 is still locked to GF3-GF4 (none of which is that great at running this game at a decent framerate, funnily enough. Hello, 800x600). One of the reasons I keep old parts around.

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Do you think problem is in WSL2 and cheaters on Windows, or Linux users are cheating?

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side note: something is super wrong with the steam desktop app for the next fest home page. At least for me. The top recommendations for me are "parkour time attack anime third person" games. I have absolutely zero interest in that whatsoever, and have exactly 0 games in my library with those tags.

Then moving down, the next recommended category is "minigames games" (terrible recommendation) and the next recommended category after that is "soundtrack games" (terrible recommendation) and then it goes to "all titles".

It's like they swapped my recommendation profile for a total stranger?

That's odd. I have space sim and openworld survival craft games, which would make sense from No Mans Sky perspective.

Though for me, finding unsuitable game categories is somewhat hard. I probably have at least one game for large number of genres.

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The screenshot was taken on an AMD GPU.

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This has been on my wishlist since your first article a year ago. No need to try the demo.

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Hm. Gives me Grim Fandango vibes.

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The old demo had be sold already. :)

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And boom! On my ignore list. A game should work on al my devices. If the game is intentionally made to break then it's not worth my time.

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I wish I could play this one.

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Seems the most user friendly coming from... Arch

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WOOOO! I love a good next fest!!! Always discover some cool new games :)

side note: something is super wrong with the steam desktop app for the next fest home page. At least for me. The top recommendations for me are "parkour time attack anime third person" games. I have absolutely zero interest in that whatsoever, and have exactly 0 games in my library with those tags.

Then moving down, the next recommended category is "minigames games" (terrible recommendation) and the next recommended category after that is "soundtrack games" (terrible recommendation) and then it goes to "all titles".

It's like they swapped my recommendation profile for a total stranger?

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I'm moving several friends over to linux because of the hilarious shoot-self-in-foot fiasco by microsoft, and I'm using Mint for all of them. Seems the most user friendly coming from windows.

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Think I saw Chakotee and Janeway in one of the shots near the end of that trailer, so presumably you're playing her, as captain.

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Did they implement a proper fix for rendering those shadows, or are we still forced to use decades-old GeForce cards?

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>Ubisoft account

How to kill excitement 101.

Funnier still is that they also disabled the multiplayer components.

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Was tempted to pick it up, but then Ubisoft Connect.

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@CatKiller Pocketpair is also assisting with publishing 🤩

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Looks interesting! Reminds me of SimTower but with a very unique twist.

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Now at 10-20:
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases

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v20 is already out btw:

HOTFIX:

- removed unnecessary webview2 patch (fixes Forza Horizon 5 login never opening)
- added workaround to allow darkwinter software region version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium to work

About webview2 patches:

Originally in wine 9 a stub was introduced which fixes/allows webview2 to install properly. This fixed webview2 installation for vermintide 2 as well as the Haoplay version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium. Unfortunately the Haoplay version requires additional missing functionality in wine to work properly (it currently is still broken), so supplementary webview2 patches were added which were proposed to upstream wine for a merge request (separate from the original stub that was accepted). The additional patches were not accepted, and in addition, broke the login prompt for Forza Horizon 5. Additionally they did not help with getting the Haoplay version of Girls frontline 2: Exilium to work, therefore there is no point in keeping them.

As of now without the supplemental patches FH5 login and the Darkwinter Software version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium are working. The difference between the Darkwinter Software version and the Haoplay version is only in region coverage. Darkwinter Software covers North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, while Haoplay covers most European countries and the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

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Is this a bit like Warbreeds? I can't figure it out, but the description seems very modular-units-based-on-organic-buildings.

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