Quoting: Beamboomwhat are really the odds of this particular game using a part of a given API that NONE of the other hundreds of games, massive complex AAA included, has not used?

Pretty big.

Try grepping the Wine sources for things like "stub", "unimplemented" and "FIXME".

Edited to add:

There might even be a bigger chance of this happening with big AAA releases. There's a bit of a mono-culture in gaming these days. Most games will use an existing engine like Unity or Unreal. This is good for Wine since adding support for one such game usually means many others will be supported inadvertently.

An AAA title might mean a totally new engine, or something very customized. It might very well use other, previously untested parts of an API or use it differently and trip up Wine.

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Quoting: NameHereI often see this sort of thing and wonder: are these general fixes to proton that have been missed?

It's mostly incomplete or unimplemented functions and libraries with a few hacks mixed in.

You can grep the changelog for FH5 to see what was needed:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/commits/experimental_6.3

Some of it will probably be merged in upstream Wine, some will not.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI dunno about being a Beholder. When you're a Beholder, people will kill you just to get the beauty in your eye.

Well, better a beholder than a bee holder. That's a vocation that stings!

On a more serious note, I hope the release of the sequel goes well. Giving away games must surely give publicity and bring in sales at some point, because everyone seems to be doing it. All the time.

I made a rough estimate, and I have picked up close to 100 gratis titles so far this year. That's just from GOG/Steam/Epic and only redeeming the games that look at least mildly interesting.

And, ooh, look, while writing this, another giveaway, SteamWorld Dig 2 on GOG!

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QuotePPSSPP - Sony PSP emulator.

I read the name of that emulator out loud and every cat in the neighborhood showed up!?

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I loved the demo, have been looking forward to the full release, but... 20 euros for what is reported to be 3-4 hours of play time seems a bit much.

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Quoting: chelobakaAll above titles work with Proton Experimental bleeding-edge beta.

That is interesting, can confirm that GRID 2 works with bleeding-edge beta, but not the normal Experimental.

Any idea what git branch bleeding-edge corresponds to?

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Quoting: GuestStrange, CEG games well and truly didn't work for me last time tried (admittedly that was probably over a year ago now). Within in that, the only one I want to play is Space Marine, where the (co-op) multiplayer was great fun.

Yeah, it was always a bit of hit or miss with Wine and the Windows client here too. Some CEG games worked with some Wine releases some of the time...

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Quoting: GuestOut of curiosity, is there a commit or patch somewhere to go along with this?

All I could spot was this:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/6fdc1b54bc62ea54e573370a49e7d3b2d606ab3f

Nothing as far as I can see on the proton-wine side. But I assume most of the work needed was done on the Steam client.

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I have exactly 11,67€ saved in my Steam wallet for just this occasion! I sold all those little trading card thingies Valve have persistently foisted on me over the last ten or so years.

Wonder how much it will get me during a sale? 20 games? 25?

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No Prost DLC?

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