Worth reaching out to them they are very responsive to the community but there are only 3 of them at current so the might just be looking to make things easy for themselves.
I’d put my money on commercial factors at this early stage. If you can switch to another anti-cheat “easily”, it puts you in a better position to negotiate prices/discounts.
In a well made multiplayer FPS, much of the effective anti-cheat measures are not client-side at all, but rather netcode, server-side validation, analytics, and the game mechanics to support it. Often client-side anti-cheat is just used to mop up known exploits, maintain banlists, and offload support responsibility from the game studio.
I’m not sure if BattleBit would fit my definition of “well made” … but I’d probably still buy it if it ran on Linux. Sigh…
The steam deck has helped the Linux gamer, that is a fact. I don't own a steam deck. But it is a big success and with that many out these, companies should want to make sure it works with them...and Linux with Proton.
Huh. I knew AMD currently had an edge in Gaming, but I didn't realise it was that high.
I switched to AMD on linux for non-gaming related reasons, but what is it that Intel is doing that's killing their market share? I mean, I know their CPU's don't suck, but are they just that bad?
@SFaulken You can't conclude that easily, because many are Steam Deck users. And there is no choice in CPU. It would be interesting to know the AMD vs Intel market share for Linux Gamers in Steam, without the Steam Deck data included. Wish there was a toggle. The reason is, to know if people actually choose AMD over Intel when they could.
I know that my next computer will be AMD+AMD (a change from current Intel+Nvidia). I personally don't think that Intel is bad or suck.
Personally, I'd say pricing particularly with earlier Ryzen. I went from an i7-860 to a Ryzen 2700, my entire build (except GPU which I carried over) was $461 due to sales (in 2019). Also I wanted higher thread count, something AMD really pushed to normalize and something useful for compiling (and my old CPU having 8 threads is why I was able to use it for so long, experience depended on how the software/game supported it though).
I mean Intel might be more competitive in some cases now and AMD less so (now that they've had success) but some of those things might still hold true in some capacity. I think AMD motherboards being cheaper was another thing, but again not sure now.
Some of it is probably also old perceptions mixed with bad PR on Intel's part (glue comments, CPU with chiller debacle), and I'd imagine worries about E core support for their newer stuff or just power draw.
Out of curiosity, have you tried Bottles yet? This is what I use, and it works just fine for Diablo 4. I know that Lutris and Bottles both use Wine under the hood (although Bottles has some customization on top as far as I understand?) but perhaps the defaults is what makes the difference.
If you still have D4 downloaded, when you install the Blizzard launcher into Bottles you should be able to copy (or move) the files from where Lutris is storing them over to the new directory, and then Blizzard’s launcher has a “Find installed games” option somewhere that will then make it recognized as downloaded.
Since you’re on Ubuntu which doesn’t have Flatpak support by default, you’d need to setup Flatpak for Ubuntu and then you’ll be able to install Bottles from Flathub if that is something you were interested in. On the upside, it supposedly has really good compatibility for regular Windows (non-game) applications as well, though I’ve yet to try that part out.
Okay, this helped a lot. Got D4 working (noticeably lower graphic quality, but completely smooth fps and very playable), and also massively reduced the stuttering for OW2.
For any future readers, I definitely recommend Bottles over Lutris or standard Wine for Battle.net and related games.
Overwatch 2 via Lutris - Runs but with significant stuttering making it difficult to play
Haven't played 2, for 1 was notorious for this due to shader compilation. If you stick with it for like an hour it should clear. You can tell if this is the issue if you go into the training mode and it stutters the first time you fire an ability, but not subsequent times.
Diablo 4 via Lutris - Cannot run due to "Graphics Initialization failed" error
Quick Google suggests try downgrading VKD3D through Lutris options.
Yeah, I think it may be a shader compilation issue for OW2 but I saw reports of people not suffering this or being able to fix it so I hoped there had been progress.
I did try downgrading VKD3D, as I mentioned in my post, but this didn't help with D4.
With Nvidia making progress on NVK, but still having proprietary DLSS, while AMD has great Linux drivers but they ignore them while pushing FSR-only on game devs...
I'm just so conflicted about what kind of GPU I'd like to have and which company I would like to support a few years down the line.
The gamescope options for the Deck are surely nice, but on a powerful desktop setup, most of them would be more of a gimmick (with some exceptions). And at that point, if you already have a working & desktop, then it's probably easier to route that thing to the TV somehow instead.
Ooh, I was just looking for news on NVK like 4 days ago. Glad to hear its going well - I do wish that Nvidia would just get their heads out of the sand and improve their own driver, but that became a pipe dream long ago.
Echo has been playing around with NVK+DXVK a bit and has succeeded in getting some games playing. It's still early days and requires some hacks. However, there are a few titles working and I was able to demo Hollow Knight and F1 2017 at the Collabora meet-up in May.
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