nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-25 months agoEpic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square169fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down1111cross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
arrow-up1224arrow-down1external-linkEpic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)www.theverge.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square169fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·edit-25 months agoNo it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration. Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy. If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux. The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.
minus-squareXenny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoDXVK is sooo good now I install it for half my games on my Windows machine just for the performance gains
minus-squareBaggie@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI’ve been doing the same thing, if the performance of a game feels like it could be better I slap that shit in there and it often drops GPU usage by at least half, it’s frankly ridiculous.
No it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration.
Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy.
If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux.
The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.
DXVK is sooo good now I install it for half my games on my Windows machine just for the performance gains
I’ve been doing the same thing, if the performance of a game feels like it could be better I slap that shit in there and it often drops GPU usage by at least half, it’s frankly ridiculous.