Wine 10.20 Released with Vkd3d 1.18 Upgrade for Direct3d 12
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Wine 10.20 has been released with an upgrade to VKD3D 1.18, improving Direct3D 12 support. The release was met with a low number of comments, mostly discussing anti-cheat programs in online gaming. The conversation touched on the implications of using kernel-level anti-cheat systems.
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Games are supposed to be fun. If you feel the need to compromise your system that much then it stops being fun and starts being addiction.
Yes, it's just a game. It's not important. Your life won't be made worse by not playing it.
But games using the likes of Vanguard (Riot), Javelin (EA) and Ricochet (Activision) who mess around with your system on kernel level? Forget about it.
And maybe, just maybe, that's even good.
But this means nothing unless game devs/studios actually enable support for it, and unfortunately some companies like Epic and Rockstar just aren't interested in Linux and they just make up blatant lies (like how Rockstar lied that BattlEye doesn't work on Linux, when Valve explicitly said it does, all they need to do is email BattlEye to enable support[1]).
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22737127/valve-steam-deck...