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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by krebsho on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:06PM (#25334941)
Real pending question is will Cyberpunk work on linux?
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by uncletaco on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:13PM (#25335052)
Sort of an extension of this: does Google Stadia availability imply an official build for linux? Are they under some kind of exclusivity agreement with regards to a linux version?
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by smileybarry on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:26PM (#25336036)
Not necessarily; technically there is a Linux build being developed, but it being used on Stadia doesn't necessarily mean it will be released to others.

Just Dance 2020/2021 is a good example of this: the PC version was discontinued in 2017, but 2020 and 2021 were also released on Stadia -- without an accompanying PC build.

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by fartcannon on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:25PM (#25335251)
I think it's mostly that CDProjekt and GOG got called out by the Linux community for pulling support of the Witcher 3, and some other things. The CEO had a bit of a tantrum about it and now won't support Linux.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by vetinari on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:54PM (#25335648)
Witcher 2 for Linux was pretty crappy though.

It is about the only linux release I've never managed tu run.

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by deadbunny on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:29PM (#25336997)
I mean CDPR staff did get death threats, let's not forget that in this story.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by 1_player on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:58PM (#25337417)
While there's no reason to send death threats because a game company pulled support for $OS, there's no reason to pull support for $OS because of death threats either.

There's always someone really, incredibly angry on the Internet.

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by deadbunny on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:51PM (#25339432)
I agree but painting the CDPR tream as "having a tantrum" without context is disingenuous.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by some-guy on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:26PM (#25335260)
The difference with an official linux build vs Stadia using linux is the fact that they (currently) have only one hardware configuration to worry about.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by mhh__ on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:07PM (#25335823)
If they are using a traditional driver setup wouldn't the software be the problem rather than the hardware i.e. Vulkan is Vulkan, Ubuntu is not Arch?
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by jsheard on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:52PM (#25336406)
Cyberpunk is a DX12-only title, isn't DX12 under Proton still relatively immature?

Death Stranding was another recent DX12 release and it looks like Proton struggles with it