It definitely isn't solved.

Hmm. I might be speaking from a perspective of a more.. restrained gamer ( my last bigger indulgence was BG3 and, while there were issues after updates, drivers tended to solve those eventually ). Any particular titles you have a problem with?

If you are thinking of permanently online games that effectively put malware on your system, I am ok with that not being solved ( but even for those there are ways to go around those restrictions -- which should not be surprise given the nature of cat and mouse game ).

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mvdtnz 3 days ago | parent [-]

Battlefield 2024 (and the upcoming 6) and all recent Call of Duty games are the obvious ones. And if you're interested in sim racing then device compatibility is a major problem even before you get to launch the game.

> I am ok with that not being solved

Great, good for you? You can't claim a problem is solved and then say "well I don't care" when shown it's not solved.

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A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2 days ago | parent [-]

<< You can't claim a problem is solved and then say "well I don't care" when shown it's not solved.

It is a fair point in that sense so you get full points for argument counter. That said, I personally think gamers, as a demographic, has some responsibility to say.. 'yeah, no. stop being dicks'.

It is not that I don't care exactly. It is that I care too much to allow this crap on my computer.

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mvdtnz 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I personally think gamers, as a demographic, has some responsibility to say.. 'yeah, no. stop being dicks'

Well you don't play online games. Personally I care a great deal more about cheaters than I do about whether a company (who I already trust to install stuff on my computer) installs stuff on my computer. Cheaters absolutely ruin games.

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A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2 days ago | parent [-]

Hmm. What solution would you propose if you were in a position to do that ( change linux in a way that allows you to play online games like new Battlefield )?

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mvdtnz 2 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know enough to understand what prevents it I guess. I thought it was a matter of game or anti cheat developers not writing software that will cooperate properly. It's a chicken and egg problem, has been for decades.

Believe me I would love to drop Windows.

	▲	A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's fair. I don't want to sound too cynical with a reflexive 'money' response. As you note, some of it is indeed a question of software not playing nice together. I have zero solutions for this. Tbh, it sounds like you may be forced to use a Windows VM ( if you want try 'dropping' windows that way ). Last time I was looking at it, VMs were still fair game, but were starting to be identified as a way to bypass some of the restrictions ( mostly because they were only doing a couple of checks for whether OS is in a VM ). That said, few friends were recently sharing pics suggesting those checks were getting more invasive. << Believe me I would love to drop Windows. Just in case it helps, I went through a major system issue at some point with Windows 7 and once it was clear that CPU/GPU passthrough works surprisingly well ( before nvidia started messing with it after 3060 ), I got a way to ease myself in with better fallback position should my linux install fail somehow. This approach ( OS engaged for a specific purpose ) worked better than dual boot, which in practice was never used. There is some learning curve, but nothing excessive or something that is not well covered online.