Just installed and tried Witcher 3 on 2.19-staging.

It installed and started fine. After all the initial cutscenes when you finally get control over Geralt, I noticed there was a vertical plane with a grass texture through the middle of the room between Geralt and Yenn. Tried walking through the plane but then the game crashed.

Anyone know a workaround for that?

Edit: Nevermind. It works better now that I progressed past the first area.

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Quoting: KayKay91Question, for Ubuntu users how do ya even install Wine Staging Gallium Nine? Is there any repo for it?

Not that I'm using it, but I've seen PPA's for it on Launchpad.

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Quoting: GuestThis is what I tried, but when I wanted to updated sources.list, I got this message:

"E: The repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu artful Release' does not have a Release file."

I checked the url, and they don't have a repo for this version.

They haven't added an artful build to their repo yet, but the zesty version works fine for me. Just edit your sources.list file and change artful to zesty on the wine entry.

Change this
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ artful main #WineHQ
into this
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ zesty main #WineHQ

Don't forget to change it back to artful once they add that to their repo.

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Been playing Age of Empires 2 HD Edition under Wine. Works flawlessly once you bypassed the launcher.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeProblem being that I have some Qt apps which haven't added Wayland support.

Lot's of apps don't have native Wayland support at this time, but if you are running Wayland, then you are also running the xwayland compatibility layer which should make non Wayland apps work for you. I have yet to find any app that doesn't work through xwayland, but sometimes you need to apply some workarounds, such as when the app need super user privileges.

You can use xeyes to see which apps are native Wayland and which apps are running through xwayland. If the eyes are able to track your mouse pointer within the appĺications window, then it's xwayland. Firefox, Steam and pretty much any game are example of non Wayland apps, while most official GNOME apps are native Wayland.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: jens

Quoting: slaapliedjeMy problems with Wayland are similar. That and there are unnecessary pushes to force people to use it when it clearly isn't ready. Debian a while back had changed the default session for gdm to start Gnome Shell with Wayland.

Are you sure Debian did this, I would not expect such move from them?
Fedora did the same a few releases back. The decision to switching default to Wayland is a tough one. At some point you need to release software and bring in into the field, otherwise it wont mature at all. For a distribution like Fedora, being bleeding edge everywhere, this seems a valid move. More stable distributions like Debian should indeed hold back for a while.

It was in Debian Sid, they'd never do it in Stable of course. From the gdm3 changelog

gdm3 (3.24.2-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Drop d/p/Hack-D-Bus-messages-from-Debian-8-libgdm-to-work-wit.patch now
    that debian Stretch has been released
  * Drop d/p/09_default_session.patch: Start the "gnome" session by default,
    "default" is always starting a X11 session but we want to start a Wayland
    one starting from now.
  * debian/patches/92_systemd_unit.patch: Uncomment the BusName= directive,
    gdm doesn't seem to be killed on reload anymore

 -- Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]>  Thu, 06 Jul 2017 01:30:35 +0200

Drop d/p/09_default_session.patch: Start the "gnome" session by default,
"default" is always starting a X11 session but we want to start a Wayland
one starting from now.

And what's the big deal? Why get upset? It's Debian Sid after all, which is aimed at tech savvy folks who want to participate in development. Upstream GNOME has been doing Wayland as default for ages. Fedora has been doing it for quite a while. Ubuntu 17.10 does it. Arch does it etc... Also, X.org is still provided out of the box and it's incredibly easy to switch back, but if Wayland is ever going to shape up it needs to be pushed by bleeding edge distros.

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Just received an update on Ubuntu 17.10 which claims to fix this issue.

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Quoting: ronnocAlso risking sounding like a noob - but I did not know this. Why would someone *not* want to install RADV?

There's basically no risk and the amount of disk space required is tiny, so I don't see why you wouldn't install it.

With that said, I can understand why it doesn't come installed out of the box. There are very few real world use cases so far, most software that makes use of it is experimental, and RADV itself is under heavy development and probably not quite ready for prime time. In most cases, OpenGL is still working better, and even faster in some cases, than RADV.

The only good example I have seen so far where RADV is of benefit is the Mad Max beta, and I can't even get it to run without fetching mesa straight from git (does not apply to OpenGL). Tried lots of other games on Vulkan, but haven't seen any benefit in most of them.

I've also experienced Vulkan with my AMD Fury on Windows 10 before I ditched Windows early 2017 and that was totally awesome, so there's definitely potential for something great. It's just sad that Linux has fallen behind and AMD hasn't opened up their closed source Vulkan driver like they said they would.

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Quoting: berillionsWhat is the difference between Steam Snap and Steam native (runtime disabled) ?
The performance in game can be increase ?

Improved performance? No. Snap does however run apps in a sandboxed environment, so snap would be more secure than running steam-native.

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Quoting: berillionsWith snap Steam, it's possible to install a full 64-bits system ?
How Steam and Steam games will work if there are not 32-bits libraries on the system ?

Every application you install as a snap will come with it's own set of libraries. That's why it takes up more disk space. It's also why you won't need 32-bit shared system libraries. A snap application runs in a sandboxed environment, so it doesn't have access to the system libraries anyway. Good security feature, since it hinders malicious apps from tampering with your system.

That's how I understand it anyway. I'm no expert though so I could be wrong.

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