Don't want to be a downer, I've generally enjoyed this series, but this article seems more like a review of SoF than "getting old games to run".

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Quoting: EhvisThey do, but lately they've also been giving Gog, Epic and Origin keys.

Nice, I had no idea.

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Quoting: orzo

QuoteA lot of the heavy lifting involved (in libdeco) was done by Ethan Lee (...) almost all of the work involved was funded by sponsors of their GitHub.

Gnome/RedHat aren't exactly supportive of native Linux gamedev, are they.

nit: two words, Red Hat

I'm not sure what you mean by not supportive. Red Hat employs a number of big contributors to graphics libraries and drivers like Mesa and nouveau.

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Quoting: ljrkMaybe kind of a nitpick, but to me this kind of implies that C++ would be some kind of "updated" Version of C. The next C standard is likely C23, so will it then be "more modern" than C++20?

These are simply two different languages that evolve separately although the workgroups do coordinate development together.

So in C a trailing ++ adds one after use which means that C++ is 11 to C's 10. It's for when you're coding and need that one little push over the cliff[1], you've got 11. C++.

[1] apologies to Spinal Tap

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This is pretty sweet. I particularly like the Info button so you can see the fixes in at least the various ProtonGE releases. I didn't try the others.

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Speaking of Wayland, Fedora 36 has a proposal to enable Wayland sessions by default in GDM even with the NVIDIA proprietary driver.

Thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/OTGKP27GD7BWWCSBDSJAFUAHFTN7NWNB/

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+1 to Prey. I played it through twice this year.

Valheim was the only game I played that was released this year, apparently, so it got my vote.

I think Cyberpunk 2077 is in my future.

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Quoting: pmadzikAs I understand Liam way is also native. Luxtorpeda just download and run native binary (iortcw) for you.

Fair enough. I guess I should have clarified for those who own the game but not on steam.

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FWIW I got it to work natively:

- I rebuilt my local iortcw build circa 2017 with current master and copied the resulting bits to my rtcw directory.
- download the mod, WolfETSP.2.exe
- Install the mod into a fresh wine prefix. It doesn't require RTCW to be installed.
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/wolfrtcw_et_sp wine WolfETSP.2.exe
- Change directory into my RTCW install: cd /usr/local/games/rtcw
- Copy the plugin: rsync -avp $HOME/wolfrtcw_et_sp/drive_c/Program\ Files/Return\ to\ Castle\ Wolfenstein/ET .
- Launch: ./iowolfsp.x86_64 +set fs_game ET

I've only played about 10 minutes but I haven't noticed any issues.

edit: and in the 11th minute I got a core dump

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The second video was the first real game play I've seen without being mostly just zoomed-in cut-scenes. I could have done without the voice over though.

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