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There Still Are Some Pain Points For Linux Gaming Moving Into 2018
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Michael Larabel
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I have the impression that things have flipped. Lack of gaming seems to no longer a major factor holding back Linux adoption on the desktop so much as lack of Linux adoption is holding back gaming on Linux. As things improve in other areas, maybe we'll finally begin to see Linux on the desktop blossom in market share.
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The biggest problem I'm encountering is DRM/Anti-cheats like EAC (EasyAntiCheat) and BattlEye being problems in Wine. The wine developers tell me they have no intention of fixing. what's worse the cheat engines are beginning to detect wine and block it by detecting 'wine64' vs win64 (EasyAntiCheat does this now) and it's up to game developers to enable wine or the game fails to run. They are able to detect wines own function calls in DLLs and then block.
This is going to sink wine for gaming if no action is taken
​​​​​​Last edited by spstarr; 30 December 2017, 03:30 PM.
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Originally posted by PackRat View PostBattleye didn't help Fornite cheaters so epic games sued a cheater that was a minor and that worked.
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Originally posted by humbug View PostBut still a major issue is the porting overhead. Why is it that the majority of games take a performance hit when coming from windows to linux? Apart from a minority of devs like valve and Croteam, others do not achieve windows performance. This is something that I would love to see more discussion on and what steps can the industry take to alleviate it?
I can see the financial logic behind their decision, as it probably simplifies bug issues, however I personally believe that games designed for both equally will perform better on linux due to the Linux Kernel's superior Disk I/O, Read/Write, Compression, Decompression, and other basic computer tasks being superior due to their optimization for Servers and Supercomputers.
As for the GPU output, I saw a 25% Performance Increase on the RX 480 after 1 year of MESA devs Optimizing, and I expect the situation with Vega to Mimick it. As I recall, some wine games with Gallium outperform their windows counterparts just due to the Core OS performing better. Hopefully someday games catchup and no longer use wrappers.
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1. Open source drivers need more compatibility. Nvidia proprietary drivers usually have no problems with compat profiles while RadeonSi and other open source drivers do.
2. Gamepads like the Xbox 360 wireless controller are still a problem for some games. Wine however has the worse issues with gamepads.
3. Regressions still happen and I was hit with one from Podaka PPA using stable.
4. There's a massive lack of game ports to Linux. This is the #1 issue for gaming on Linux.
5. Fragmentation is not an issue. Windows users see it as an issue. Most popular distros are either based on Debian or Ubuntu.
6. See #4.
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx View Post1. Open source drivers need more compatibility. Nvidia proprietary drivers usually have no problems with compat profiles while RadeonSi and other open source drivers do.
2. Gamepads like the Xbox 360 wireless controller are still a problem for some games. Wine however has the worse issues with gamepads.
3. Regressions still happen and I was hit with one from Podaka PPA using stable.
4. There's a massive lack of game ports to Linux. This is the #1 issue for gaming on Linux.
5. Fragmentation is not an issue. Windows users see it as an issue. Most popular distros are either based on Debian or Ubuntu.
6. See #4.
Like the recent push on fedora to get wayland+gnome into shape and the older Canonical paper cuts push, if Canonical spent the better part of a dev cycle testing and fixing gaming paper cuts and issues they would be a much better position
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