@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 1 year agoBad news: Playstation is starting to block their games from running on Proton. Playstation Overlay is blocked on Linux in Ghost of Tsushima. The same thing happened with the Concord beta.x.commessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up1562arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1545arrow-down1external-linkBad news: Playstation is starting to block their games from running on Proton. Playstation Overlay is blocked on Linux in Ghost of Tsushima. The same thing happened with the Concord beta.x.com@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square133fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresparky@lemmy.federate.ccAlinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoIt tell us quite a lot actually; the native PlayStation game was running on a POSIX system, on x86(-64), and Vulkan/OpenGL. Ergo, it took extra work to port the game to Windows, when the original title ran on something very close to a Linux desktop.
minus-square@zaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoAs far as I know PS4/PS5 don’t support OpenGL or Vulkan, they have their own APIs.
It tell us quite a lot actually; the native PlayStation game was running on a POSIX system, on x86(-64), and Vulkan/OpenGL. Ergo, it took extra work to port the game to Windows, when the original title ran on something very close to a Linux desktop.
As far as I know PS4/PS5 don’t support OpenGL or Vulkan, they have their own APIs.