GoG does DRM free, and not just old games. Not many new AAA because convincing a big company to sell their game DRM free is hard, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on there.
Yeah, and lots of new popular indie games. Some recent oneish I’ve got are DREDGE, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. OK not super recent but not all the games are 20 years old or more. Even Skyrim Anniversary is on there.
Yeah, I recently bought X4, which is so badly implemented (at least on Linux) that it gives the same FPS (in the 30s) on Low settings as it does on Ultra.
I even went ahead and bought a new GPU just for that and hardly see a difference, even being suspicious of there being a miner in it.
I mean if you’re german you could try working for them lol
That seems to be the main barrier, yeah.
But I checked htop while running the game and it doesn’t seem to be doing all single core stuff as you said.
Unless it is that the bottlenecking thread is not even using the available core to the full extent.
I checked it out with both linux and linux-zen kernels.
Usually, when a program is loading on a single thread, you tend to see a single core go to 100% for a few seconds, which then jumps around as the OS switches the core provided to the thread. That was not happening here.
Also, the new GPU is sometimes at ~60-70% while the FPS is dropping to 30.
This part was weird.
I’m playing BG3 on Linux on a laptop with integrated graphics, and I haven’t had any issues other than not being able to run it with graphics set to ultra (expected since there’s not graphics card).
Good news. Unreal Engine 4 is usable on Linux and works pretty well too.
Learn some C++, get some ppl and make good games.
Also, GoG means old games don’t die. (well at least the non DRM ones)
GoG does DRM free, and not just old games. Not many new AAA because convincing a big company to sell their game DRM free is hard, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on there.
And of course the ones they (i.e. CD Projekt Red) make themselves. The Witcher series, including Gwent spinoffs, and Cyberpunk 2077
Yeah, and lots of new popular indie games. Some recent oneish I’ve got are DREDGE, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. OK not super recent but not all the games are 20 years old or more. Even Skyrim Anniversary is on there.
Yeah, I recently bought X4, which is so badly implemented (at least on Linux) that it gives the same FPS (in the 30s) on Low settings as it does on Ultra.
I even went ahead and bought a new GPU just for that and hardly see a difference, even being suspicious of there being a miner in it.
Fun game nonetheless.
x series has largely been cpu limited by single main thread as long as it’s existed fwiw
Wait, so all I had to do was disable my underclock and I would have gotten the same marginal perf gains that I got by upgrading both my CPU and GPU?
Will Egosoft hire me if I offer to refactor their code into something multithread friendly?
I mean if you’re german you could try working for them lol
That seems to be the main barrier, yeah.
But I checked
htopwhile running the game and it doesn’t seem to be doing all single core stuff as you said. Unless it is that the bottlenecking thread is not even using the available core to the full extent.I checked it out with both linux and linux-zen kernels.
Usually, when a program is loading on a single thread, you tend to see a single core go to 100% for a few seconds, which then jumps around as the OS switches the core provided to the thread. That was not happening here.
Also, the new GPU is sometimes at ~60-70% while the FPS is dropping to 30. This part was weird.
How about “Customers in low income countries will pay the same full price for your game.” as a pitch.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Its nice seeing more people using the license.
As a tip when I started doing this I started using a text expander so I didn’t have to copy and paste all the time.
Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Well, KDE Clipboard seems to make it easy enough for me for now, but perhaps I will set a compose key for it if required.
My main problem tends to be forgetting to add it because I got too emersed in typing the comment.
And it’s kinda useless to add it after the fact, so most of the time, it works because I copy the license first.
CC BY-NC-SA
I’m waiting for BG3 to make a Linux thingy. Until then, it’'s on the “maybe” list.
If it’s not native on Linux, it needs to be exceptionally good for me to buy it, considering GoG doesn’t have regional pricing.
I’m playing BG3 on Linux on a laptop with integrated graphics, and I haven’t had any issues other than not being able to run it with graphics set to ultra (expected since there’s not graphics card).
Ue5 as well, not sure why you went back a version
Every game that I have seen that runs on UE5 either looks like a vaseline smeared blur or runs like crap.
Do you know one that runs great AND looks great? And I don’t mean in the trailer.
I am not sure of the relevance, we are talking about the engine having a linux native version
Most engines can build on Linux. Even CryEngine. Maybe OP mentioned UE4 because it runs better than UE5.
This is wildly not my experience. You can turn off motion blur in the vast majority of games… What’s your hardware?
If you make one, then I’ll know one. ;)
I haven’t tried UE5
Also, they changed their licence midway, so a little unsure about it rn.
The change doesn’t apply to games
The film industry previously was completely free, in versions 5.4 and above. It is now $1850 per seat for companies making over a million per year