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
The Telltales guys make pretty good titles, and while they seem to have no problem supporting Mac/OSX at all, they are somehow very reluctant to publish anything for the Linux platform. I think this is a missed opportunity on their… Continue Reading
Following the interview conducted a couple of days ago with James Ramey from Codeweavers, we have learnt that the typical port using Codeweavers’ Crossover/WINE requires about 15 000 USD. With this kind of information, we can actually derive some rough… Continue Reading
Last week, following the announcement that Codeweavers would soon provide DirectX11 support for games and applications, I decided to get in touch with James Ramey, President of Codeweavers, in order to learn more about their plans and their progress on… Continue Reading