The visuals remind me of Beyond Good and Evil. And now that I've mentioned that masterpiece, I want to play it again! I think I owned a physical copy of that game... I wonder what the options are for replay now.

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Quoting: EgonautThe Amazon integration doesn't work properly yet. The only thing which works, is connecting your account and load the list of games. None of the games can be installed, it just fails with an error on the terminal.

For the time being, I can suggest using the CLI tool Nile, it works great.

I just tried Rogue Heroes and it gives:
2022-08-29 17:56:46,410: Unable to get games from API: HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed
2022-08-29 17:56:48,035: Failed http request https://sds.amazon.com/amazon/
2022-08-29 17:56:48,036: There was an error getting patches: 1ebe8dd8-ca72-cc12-ab87-8683f149801e
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 628, in on_game_install
    game_id = service.install(db_game)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/lutris/services/base.py", line 252, in install
    installer = self.generate_installer(db_game)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/lutris/services/amazon.py", line 605, in generate_installer
    file_dict, directories = self.get_game_files(details["id"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/lutris/services/amazon.py", line 544, in get_game_files
    game_patches = self.get_game_patches(game_id, manifest_info["versionId"], hashpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/lutris/services/amazon.py", line 504, in get_game_patches
    raise UnavailableGame(
lutris.exceptions.UnavailableGame: ('Unable to get the patches of game, please check your Amazon credentials and internet connectivity', '1ebe8dd8-ca72-cc12-ab87-8683f149801e')

Meanwhile, A Knight's Tale seems to work:



It's downloading now - looks like it creates an "amazon" directory in your default Lutris folder.

EDIT Hmmm, ah well. After downloading, I hit "Launch":



EDIT2 After stopping/starting Lutris, it recognises it's installed! But still doesn't run. Logs show it trying, but it doesn't take.

2022-08-29 18:15:58,395: Unable to load libGLX_nvidia.so.0
2022-08-29 18:15:58,395: Unable to locate libGLX_nvidia
Started initial process 68085 from gamemoderun /home/scaine/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-7.2-2-x86_64/bin/wine /home/scaine/Games/Lutris/amazon/a-knights-quest/drive_c/game/AKnightsQuest.exe
Start monitoring process.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
fsync: up and running.
Initial process has exited (return code: 13568)
Monitored process exited.
Exit with return code 13568
2022-08-29 18:16:06,450: Game still running (state: running)
2022-08-29 18:16:06,450: Stopping A Knight's Quest (wine)

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Ext4 is the way to go. Don't use NTFS for anything, under Linux. At all. Ever. It's utter horseshit, honestly.

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I'd been claiming these games for months, but rarely used them... who needs yet another launcher, right?

But still, seeing them all like this was a hell of a shock!

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Quoting: clatterfordslimThe only problem with Proton, is the games need to be on the same drive as the OS.

That's not the case for me. My 2Tb NVME is mounted in /mnt/scaine and I symlink it with ~/Games. I don't think there's anything unusual about my rig and this has worked for the past three years on Mint, Pop_OS and now Endeavour.

I wonder what it is about your build that causes you Proton issues?

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Quoting: axredneckDoes this "open/proprietary driver" point still make sense?

Probably not, given that 99% of people using Nvidia will be proprietary and 99% of people using AMD or Intel will be using mesa (open source). It was more relevant when AMD were still pushing the Catalyst/Radeon driver. And Nouveau driver hasn't really matured all that much in the last few years to my knowledge - not sure it's worth talking about it at this point. If Nvidia are going to do anything around open source, it'll be their new kernel modules, I expect.

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Quoting: KuduzkehpanJust for clear the things, Spider-man remastered is not great. Steamplay proton wine cedega transgaming are great.
Or i will just ask is it native app for linux ? if no how non native app could be great for a linux user.

Don't do that, please. Read the forum rules.

They're pretty clear.

Quote- Talking about zealotry, we are Gaming On Linux and not "Gaming on Linux only native titles or GTFO". If you be a nuisance when talking about Steam Play / Proton, DOSBox, Wine, Cloud Gaming, Emulation and so on, we will give warnings and take further action if needed. Allow people to enjoy what they want, don't be a gate keeper. We don't need constant comments about how you won't buy a game if it's not native, as just one example.

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Quoting: WorMzyI wonder if this'll be the scrape where AMD overtakes nVidia in the GPU vendor results.

I thought it had already! But you're right. It's neck and neck, but Nvidia still have a slight edge!

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QuoteOriginally due towards the end of this year, they said in the post how they've seen signs of "an over-tight schedule: mounting stress levels, team members becoming reluctant to take time off". Instead of getting people to do overtime, cut features and other such ideas they decided to just delay the game instead.

Failbetter have won GameIndustry.biz’s "Best Places to Work" for four out of the past five years. Gives me hope that the game industry isn't on a death spiral of crunch and thinly veiled misogyny. There have been so many bad stories over the past couple of years.

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Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledrealityNotice that everyone has dropped the “it’s impossible to develop for Linux because of marketshare” bologna.

That's because they think the marketshare is increasing. There's nothing contradictory there.

Yes I believe the last report was that marketshare had increased from 1% to 1.5%. Which is not a substantial enough increase to kill that argument. So it is contradictory.

increasing

So a market share of 1% isn’t substantial enough market to invest writing more compatible C++? But a few hundred thousand units pushing that number to 1.5% does make it worth the money?

There’s no indicator that this rise isn’t just a trend, it’s been released less that a year. So I expect someone making arguments about market share being the reason not to develop as having considered these ideas. The steam deck isn’t going to get that number up to 5% even. It’s a niche first generation device regardless of the acclaim.

IMO it was a BS argument from the start.

You keep focusing on actual numbers when PLG was pointing out an increasing trend. Looking at the long term view, the numbers will matter more, which is why we're seeing more developers start to support the Deck.

As for the argument being BS - I don't agree, although I suppose it depends on what argument you're referring to. We're not seeing Windows developers suddenly scrambling to provide native Linux versions. Nope, all they're doing is adding Proton support to a Windows title, a much easier proposition.

Maybe you meant the argument that some developers wouldn't even provide Proton "support", perhaps citing support and QA costs? In which case, yeah, I agree.

Yes and I keep making the point because it’s amount of time increasing isn’t long enough to say “actually Linux has good market share now”. Instead developers are just turning and developing. Whether it was native or proton support the argument was one of market observations by non-specialists, not facts.

They can see the writing on the wall, the direction of travel. It's their livelihood, after all!

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