Re:Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
by tmpmoony on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:57PM
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Poorly is unfortunately an understatement. BYOND itself works fine, but BYOND uses Internet Explorer (great) for game UIs, and many newer SS13 codebases use something called TGUI. TGUI requires IE11, and Wine does not support that, so as a consequence most codebases are simply unplayable.
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Re:Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
by PJB3005 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:40PM
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Even without the need for IE11, BYOND is nigh unusable on Wine. It runs extremely poorly due to extreme and poor usage of Win32 UI stuff.
There appears to be some form of resource leak in BYOND which causes its Ui system to gradually slow down the longer you're playing. This is severely amplified by presumably Wine being less optimized than Windows in these areas. It means that after just ~15 minutes of playing the client will starts stuttering severely on Wine. Then you need to restart the client which can take 2-3 minutes depending on how broken BYOND's ad loading wants to be. (This also happens on Windows but the effect is MUCH slower so you can go hours without noticing).
Re:Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
by smoldesu on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:25PM
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I remember getting it to work reasonably well with some heavy-handed tinkering, but it was definitely never at a fully playable state on Linux. The remake utterly flies though, so I have hopes that they'll continue development!