Quoting: TheRiddickI was playing around with some GTA5 mods the other day and noticed some use DotNet4.8 script injection, and dotnet48 can't be installed on newer wine versions. The recommendation is to install wine-mono which got rid of errors but also the mods just didn't appear to work also.. shrug.

Wish I could launcher straight into GTA5 for testing, damn launchers are the bane of these games, its a launcher within a launcher within a launcher situation, bloody annoying! (for single player)

You can try installing dotnet4.8 with an older wine version and then upgrading Wine which will update the prefix without removing the files.

I had a similar issue with Batman Arkham Asylum and this method worked for me.

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Looks CUTE, hopefully will make it to GOG too.

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Hopefully this means more AMD gpu's for those who want them. I could have bought a 5700XT for a fair price today, but a friend convinced me it might be worth waiting at this point. It's a tough choice but probably the right one.

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That 5600U CPU looks right up my alley, a shitton of mobile computing power and probably adequate for some gaming. Finding the sweet spot build will be a challenge though, I'm have zero tolerance for soldered ram, including soldered + 1 slot configs.

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Waiting for Debian 11 this year, I use this distro as my main OS as it's easy to create an offline repo and it's rock solid (got a bunch of offline systems all over the house so its handy).

My current good old Debian 9 base is showing its' age. Many programs work fine and I even have a bleeding edge kernel, Mesa and Wine however there are a few odd cases where a software refuses to compile from source.

I'll probably try an Arch based setup on my laptop.

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Quoting: GuestHeXen 2 is too "modern" as it runs via .exe [also there is no .WAD file anyway so yeah] so for that one you have to use WINE.

No you don't! - http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/

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Quotealso newly improved video support with "infrastructure work for supporting video playback from Media Foundation".

Can't say I care much about RDR or Anno but I like this part.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: damarrinThere’s always the option to buy a box, eg here W3 costs around 33€ from a shop. I haven’t actually looked at the box to see if it’s a steam key. It’ll be rather useless to a Linux user if not, plus there’s always the debate about whether it counts as aLinux sale or not.

I vaguely remember boxes might not count as Linux sale even with a Steam key. (I had been so proud of my box with "Linux" printed very small somewhere on the backside back then...! )

The first time I saw Linux logo on a retail game was many years ago with Unreal Tournament 2004. Much as retail boxes are becoming a thing of the past, it would be great to see Linux icon on them.

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Quoting: dorronCan't move to this kernel until they release an update to virtualbox...

Unless you're using VirtualBox for something important, I would highly giving a look at Virtual Machine Manager (uses QEMU/KVM). I can't see myself going back to VMWare Player or VBox after that.

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I believe Vulkan on Windows is still a bit niche and AAA companies are still tied to DirectX, I don't know why for certain but a few guesses could be due to their team experienced in DX or simply their engines are optimized for it throughout the years.

At the moment the only reason why they should go to Vulkan is for wider PC compatibility, not even the Nintendo Switch would be a good reason because even though it supports it, it still has its' own API. Unfortunately none of these large companies seem to be inclined in Linux support, save for Stadia (which as the DXVK creator recently pointed out, some of the Linux/Vulkan ports seem to be done by a 3rd party).

Another favor of DX12 atm is ray tracing. Mind blowing graphics aren't just art but also a huge selling point to many people. I have a few friends which refuse to play modern pixel style, 2D or even older games (such as Quake 1), if a game has great graphics then it's a sale.

Vulkan with ray tracing was finalized only a few weeks ago, so might be a while until we see a game ditching DX and using Vulkan's full potential.

Long story short, currently Vulkan is more popular with open source engines/projects and among the Linux ecosystem. Hopefully that will change/improve for the better.

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