Quoting: CorbenI'm really curious if we see any benefits in the future through Stadia. Be it direct or indirect.

I've long used streaming game services and have hoped and predicted it would be the future of, if not hardcore gaming, then casual gaming. I could easily see parents getting it for their kids rather than more expensive hardware. I also think it'll be great for Linux, as it'll allow us to play almost everything. I tried the streaming tech demo that Google had going a few months, and it worked really well. That said, a few things:

• Almost none of the Stadia titles announced so far, save for perhaps the Ghost Recon title, appeal to me at all...


• I don't find the Stadia pricing model tremendously appealing either...


• I originally thought Google was doing their Fiber ISP to lay the groundwork for services just like Stadia. Makes them backing off of it really strange, and possibly could sabotage its own efforts... I was almost sure we'd eventually see a bundle of, "Subscribe to the Fiber service, and get 6 months of Stadia free!"


• I was disappointed at the lack of focus in MS's streaming service announcements yesterday, as I was hoping they would be coming out strong given all their exclusive properties and studios...

Great article about the lack of detail in the MS announcement as well as some challenges to streaming (1 T of data use in 4K streaming after 65 hrs! Try that with your cable data cap!) at a Verge article here.

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Quoting: Guest

QuoteDXVK rebuilt for increased performance

:O

Increasing performance in dxvk beyond what we already have? When some games manage as much as 95% native performance? did we get to 98%?

I was just about to post the same thing. Pretty remarkable all around....

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This sounds absolutely gripping. I look forward to reading early feedback.

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Quoting: iiariOtherwise, store exclusive titles in the future like those of Epic are an issue too...

Just fyi, but the Epic Store works perfectly with Lutris (platinum rated and every game I've tried so far has worked perfectly (Satisfactory, Observation, Outer Wilds).

Quite right, sure, but that's precarious looking into the future. No guarantee that updates of that launcher will maintain compatibility...

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Quoting: jensI'm taking the protondb numbers with a grain of salt. Some people tend to rate their enthusiasm to get something running instead of actual compatibility.

First, compared to the reporting into WineHQ in the past, protondb is heaven sent and a total community triumph in every regard. The data you want is just too detailed for real world reporting.

Also, perhaps some are too enthusiastic, but some are too harsh as well. There are titles I consider near perfect that people have rated down to silver or bronze for what I consider niggles...

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Quoting: LinasEpic will run out of money eventually, and things will go back to normal. Blatantly paying everybody to be on their platform is not sustainable.

Epic makes something like like 2.5 billion dollars a year on Fortnite, so like 5 billion so far? The iPhone app alone was making something like 2 million a day by some estimates in revenue. That's crazy wealthy. There aren't enough desirable games in existence over a decade for them to buy exclusives to. They're giants in a playground right now...

Quoting: LinasI mean Origin is sort of popular, but liked by no one.

See, I don't have a huge problem with Origin. It's basically their own titles plus a gaggle of older, nearly abandonware for extra valve, which is kind of awesome for subscribers.

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Quoting: iiariGoing a bit off topic, but I'm playing through HL2 for the first time (!!) and I'm not sure I want a HL3...

Yeah my experience is similar. Bluntly put, HL2 was so boring to me, hat I had to force myself through to the end. Several months later I started the first of the 'episodes'; but I kind of abandoned it after a couple of hours.

Yes, it's starting to feel like work, plus the "puzzle all the things" mentality that crept into FPS's of that age. No, not every room, hall, and alley needs to have its own "trick" to advancing and it's certainly no substitute for gameplay. No, gameplay can be for gameplay sake without an "angle." I feel like I have an obligation to move forward since it was such a landmark title, and it's obviously crafted with skill and love, but I don't know how much longer I want to stay with it...

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Quoting: LinasNot counting the ridiculous DRM, there is not much else that is in the way of running just about any game on Linux.

.dotnet is still a problem, and anticheat is arguably a bigger problem than DRM (if you're not using those to mean the same thing), although Valve is working on anticheat solutions. Otherwise, store exclusive titles in the future like those of Epic are an issue too...

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Quoting: BeamboomBut we've been dreaming of the year of the Linux Desktop since the nineties, and that will likely happen after Half-Life 3 is released

Going a bit off topic, but I'm playing through HL2 for the first time (!!) and I'm not sure I want a HL3...

Back on topic, went back to protondb.com, and it looks like provisionally something like 60% of all titles there are gold, platinum, or native. That's amazing.

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Whoa, where did Nix OS come from? It's about to overtake Manjaro in reports. Are there a few hyper-reporting users or is Nix OS a distro on the meteoric rise and I just haven't been paying attention?

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