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Re:Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton by int_19h on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:58PM (#18973512)
There was one very ironic case with an old (1999) game that has been having issues on Win10. A long time ago, I used to run this game on Linux with Wine, and ran into a very similar issue back then, so I made a patch for the game. So I figured I'd try the same patch on Win10, and what do you know - it works.

The amusing part is that I don't remember what the patch actually does. I mean, it replaces a bunch of opcodes with NOP, but I have no idea what. I vaguely recall spending a day in IDA Pro to find those bytes, but nothing about the details.

The really amusing part is that game developers haven't figured out what the problem is, either, and so my who-knows-what-it-does patch is a semi-officially blessed solution for now:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/61500/discussions/0/215439774...

Re:Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton by dleslie on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:54AM (#18979940)
Such a good series. I didn't really _feel_ it with the third, though.