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A pointless, amateur, project.
Besides, if your rig cannot handle anything 7 or less in software rendering mode, then it will unlikely run dxvk.

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D-pad in the wrong location. Pass.

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d3d7 is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability, and applications that for one reason or another mix and match d3d7 with older ddraw (not ddraw7) and/or with GDI are not expected to ever work

dgvoodoo2 (converts old DirectX into newer DirectX) is closed-source, so couldn't be included directly, but the author of that tool has likely worked through those quirks for many games already; it's probably worth having a conversation.

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This sounds like game preservation!

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This is really cool, while there's already an implementation of Directx 1-11 in the form of WINED3D (openGL), Vulkan is just better. Try it for yourself, the installation is dead simple. In the Demo for Harry Potter 2, all the graphical glitches with the transparency were entirely gone when I switched to Vulkan rendering

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When wil there be a Glide translation layer on top of vulcan so I can play the original carmageddon pretending my old voodoo card still works

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definitely the felicitous offspring of Vampires: Survivor and Diablo 1
Unfortunately, I finished all in the first one (bought at its releasing), ~40h time play. Do the DLC worth its 4€?

I like to play the sorceress especially on the bridge level. Upgrading till feeling the powa of electricity :D

I would love to find some goals or missions. Or more farming like in Diablo with more boss that lay down items (armor, helmet, etc.); Or a system where you find items that could be upgraded for example by mixing together two of them of the same class in the base camp to add their effects.
... And a VERY HARD level, where surviving would be really challenging out of combining the right items and magic.

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but the Mesa driver version just seems like it would be a good fit to add don't you think?

Totally agree.

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GTK feels like 2005 but that the corners are rounded

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So I did check the achievements
Over 25% have beaten the final boss
Over 20% have achievements that I also have that I thought go a bit into the more obscure late game completionist stuff
Over 14% did a 100% run
2.5% did the no death run
Those numbers sound very high to me, especially the last one

edit: also probably worth mentioning that 39% got to the first credits screen. I can totally see myself just being done at that point without giving it much thought, and I think that's exactly what I did when I played Hollow Knight, I liked it but never cared enough to look up anything about the game. This time with Silksong I got obsessed to the level that happened when I first played Dark Souls, that is I still find myself watching random lore videos and stuff like that

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I've never used an auto install mod list for openmw before but now I DEFINITELY want to try it. Might even give it a go later this week! Exciting! Thank you for the link.

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Finally the ugly smoothing is off by default. That was so annoying, every time I introduced someone to the game, I had to send them a config file with sane graphical settings before we could play or they would complain the game was an ugly mess. Explaining to them which of the 10000 settings to change was way too complicated.

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Great news! The switch to Qt will make it look much better if you use custom themes like I do. EasyEffects always looked out of place on my system, since it was built on GTK 4. Not anymore. Updating now!

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I played the DLC yesterday and it's great, more quests to finish and three new characters to play with. So long my free time! :-D

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I just played this for the first time on my Pixel phone in the middle of the night a few hours ago and I really enjoyed it. I love the Diablo aesthetic meets Vampire Survivors. Going to get it on Steam so I can play with something other than my fingers which started to cramp pretty quickly.

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Not sure I like having folders in the start menu.

Actually, I am sure I don't. But since this is mint, I am correct in assuming we can do without the fancy modern stuff in the start menu?

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The only game using Godot that I've played so far is Halls of Torment. Really love that game. Glad the engine is doing well.

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I've been playing a lot of Bloodthief, it's just so incredibly smooth and fun to play, this is probably the closest thing to a 3D super meat boy I've come across. It hits that exact right amount of dopamine and frustration that you just want to keep coming back and get better at it, and the levels are so short you can fire it up on a lunch break just to hack away at it some more.

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Looks like Luxtorpedia has already updated its references/tags to UZDoom too.

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages

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I wonder how (if) they're re-imbursing previous purchasers/subscribers??

(Laughs and laughs until gets hiccups and has to lie down)

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Will this actually last? Is GZDoom dead? God I hope so. Would be so satisfying to see Graf gone permanently.

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When I first tried this, I was hoping it would act like a kind of voice-changers. Gimme a "Darth Vader" preset, or a "Chipmunk" preset. Sadly, it's more like a graphic equaliser. It's focus is mainly in bass boosting, or maybe noise-gating your microsphone.

It's cool, but I'm already pretty happy with my mic/speakers, so I never ended up using it. If it ever grants more fun/silly effects, I'll be giving it another go. It certainly seems like it has the potential for that kind of stuff, but doesn't seem to be leaning into that in any way.

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Excellent upgrade! Fingers crossed, one day to achieve pure Qt and never again become infected with Gnorm Taint Kaos...

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I'd like these to have way more information in a drill-down fashion, yeah. Like maybe mesa is "too much" for the top level, but if I click on my graphics card, it would appear?

Same with block devices - list the total, but click to see the individual drives, then click again to see the partitions, and even the UUIDs.

Why do I want to see the UUID? Well, about the only manual bit of set up I need to do after installing a new O/S on my main PC is allow read/write access to my second drive. It drives me absolutely nuts that every single distro in existence will only mount it read-only, as if a second drive in MY OWN PC is somehow off-limits to me, until I find it's UUID, and enter its details in /etc/fstab. It's a weird relic in Linux that's never seen any kind of enhancement over the years.

Maybe this is one of those cases where I shouldn't be asking for the UUIDs... I shouldn't care about the UUIDs, because Linux should just mount my internal, second drive in a more sane way. That way I don't have to remember the LSBLK command.

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I'm waiting for 5.0, which should be out in the coming months. They've got lots of good stuff cooked up for that update and at least over a year of work has been put into getting it polished up, a whole overhaul of the launcher and networking is going to be the main appeal.

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Good grief, the quality on show is incredible! Loving how far Godot has come in just a few years. I understand they have a process for consoles now, too, which is great, hopefully more improvements there over time, to help more developers make the smart choice.

I'm pretty blown away by that demo reel.

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been using easy effects for long time now with my microphone and audio interface.. was pleasantly surprised when this update came through. Hopefully this is a sign GTK is becoming the red headed step child. hate that garbo UI kit

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No, it's very much tied to Windows. On Linux, you can do Xbox Cloud but not normal game pass.

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Very exciting time for Indie titles and Godot. I see a lot of quite well performing titles coming out.

Kind of needed after UE5's continuous use of lumen+nanite disaster games, butchering everyone's PC's

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I presume there is still no XBOX GamePass for Linux, or way to get it running under Linux.

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