More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation
More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation
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Apex should take notes. Sadly, they won't.
Aren’t these the guys who disallow the term “Taiwan is a country” and “Free Tibet” in their chat system?
Not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct. You can't even say "Winnie the Pooh".
https://gamerant.com/marvel-rivals-banned-words-winnie-the-pooh/
NetEase is the developer of Marvel Rivals. They are a huge Chinese based company, they have ties to the CCP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Rivals
Not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct. You can't even say "Winnie the Pooh".
Censoring westerners that keep being racist is good actually.
NetEase is the developer of Marvel Rivals. They are a huge Chinese based company, they have ties to the CCP.
The CPC keeps a close eye on the companies in China. This is not a bad thing like you are framing. If you wanna point out to a real problematic case then point at Call Of Duty for being a military propaganda tool.
Not sure how that's relevant to them knowing about Linux gaming and caring to ensure it'll work properly despite proper anti-cheat.
Can we at least cheer that on?
Not just that, but I think it's important information to disseminate because it can be used to hold other game's developer's feet to the fire.
At the end of the day the WINE community is doing absolutely free work to allow game devs to reach a wider audience, and with the sunsetting of Win10 this year, that's going to be more important than ever. While not a huge marketshare, there are plenty of users like me that will just straight up not play a game if it doesn't work under WINE.
companies based in country have to follow rules of said country.
If you don't believe in that you can try to not follow sanctions and see what happens to your business.
I like to make fun of people being bad at math, asking them what 1988+1 is.
That'll happen if you want to do business in China.
Taiwan is part of China and Tibet is already free, why should they allow such reactionary comments to begin with?
And China is part of the US, because I just said so. It doesn't matter what the people of China think because I said this and nothing else matters.
That depends who you ask.
I agree, but, to be fair, WINE is not an emulator, it's a translation layer. It may seem like it doesn't matter but it's an important distinction.
Can you explain more what are the differences?
They are similar, but generally emulators have a higher run-time cost - this is because they are "emulating" an entire system, not just translating system calls. By cost, I mean performance of course. Also, emulators typically simulate/mimic other hardware, whereas translation layers just convert the system calls to be run natively on your existing hardware (which means your CPU architecture must match, etc).
Wine is far faster than regular emulation would traditionally be.
In an emulator you're capable of running a piece of software in a hardware that it wasn't designed to be run. In Wine you still need a hardware originally designed for the game (x86 CPU, graphics card, etc) because it only fakes that it is being executed under Windows by providing Windows APIs, but the underlying hardware must still be compatible.
Is "incompatible layer programs" code for emulators?
WINE Is Not an Emulator
A lot of games rely on Windows system commands for things like displaying graphics, saving files, etc. Proton translates those commands into commands that Linux can understand. Proton doesn't mimic the game. Proton mimics Windows.
Yep. And just to be a little more precise, since the distinction is a bit subtle: an emulator typically involves translating byte code so that you can run a binary on different hardware. A compatibility layer translates OS calls so that a binary can run on different software.
In the latter case, the binary still runs, as is, directly on the CPU because it's compiled for the same instruction set architecture (x86_64, in this case).
I think they mean Wine or Proton
I guess technically, but you'll have to wait until someone smarter than me comes along. This is likely referring to Linux users playing the game through a proton compat layer.
The main issue was people playing in virtual machines on Macs. Wine/proton was already whitelisted