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Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' (www.pcgamer.com)
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It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

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[–] Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 35 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

To think all of this happened because one person really liked The Crew of all things.

[–] AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Entire Linux gaming happened because one guy wanted to play Nier Automata on it. Don't underestimate some one guys.

[–] Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 4 points 16 minutes ago (3 children)

Source?*

*In a "I'm interested in the story" sense rather than a "PROVE IT" sense.

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 3 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

According to this source the guy is called Philip Rebohle and he wrote a translation layer called DXVK that lets you run DirectX stuff on Vulkan.

[–] AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

DXVK was the last (IMO) major key in enabling proper Linux gaming.

Here's a short interview with the creator of DXVK.

Prior to this Wine was able to run some simple Windows applications, but games (which heavily rely on GPU acceleration) lagged quite a bit behind since DirectX is a Windows exclusive graphics API. Instead, on Linux we have Vulkan which is similarly feature rich, but an open standard. DXVK translates DirectX API calls to Vulkan, which GPUs on Linux can understand, similar to how Wine translates Windows syscalls to the Linux alternatives. Even though Wine existed for a long time, DXVK's development started quite a bit later.

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Wine doesn't seem to be related to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)