Following my earlier post, I have been hard at work on Witcher 3 on Linux, and it’s been a blast. I have finally finished the main campaign of the game (along with numerous secondary quests and contracts), probably with more… Continue Reading
This is a bold statement, but completely true. If you were, like me, still hoping for a Witcher 3 port for Linux and somewhat despaired to see absolutely no progress in that area, well I have good news for you.… Continue Reading
It’s a relatively new project on the scene, but it’s been making some noise for a little while now. DXVK is a layer for WINE to convert DX11 calls on the fly to Vulkan. It’s not an integral part of… Continue Reading
Still digging through the survey results from the end of March 2017. This time, we’ll look at how Linux gamers’ choice of Distro for Gaming (and probably other purposes for most of us) has evolved compared to last year. Let’s… Continue Reading
As you know Codeweavers (and other WINE contributors) have been working on DX11 support for a while – they were supposed to have DX11 support by the end of 2016, but as with all complex projects, timelines tend to slip… Continue Reading
A couple of days ago, I was enquiring with a certain WINE developer the state of controller support in WINE. I was surprised they were actually working on a native solution, yet not shocked to hear that for now, a… Continue Reading
If you have ever looked at playing games on Linux through WINE, you are probably aware by now that there’s a bunch of hacks involved to getting a Xbox360 pad to work with games. Usually this means grabbing an older… Continue Reading
CrossOver 15 was just released a couple of days ago, and by now you should have noticed that the DirectX11 support missing vs the original plans. We were able to get some comments from Caron Wills, Quality Assurance Manager at… Continue Reading
A few days ago I had received a tip from Codeweavers that they had managed to run two DX11 games in their latest development version of WINE, since they are progressively implementing DirextX11 support as previously announced. Today I can… Continue Reading
Many of you know that CodeWeavers has been working for now more than a year on DirextX11 implementation – we had more details about that in an interview with James Ramey, CEO of CodeWeavers, earlier this year on BoilingSteam. Work… Continue Reading