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Bad 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)
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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 57 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is especially egregious when you remember the PS4 and PS5 operating system are themselves based on FreeBSD, meaning the original game was natively targeting a Unix-like OS to begin with. So to then say it won’t run on Linux is a huge middle finger.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No, "based on" doesn't tell us anything. Just that to avoid repeating work they took FreeBSD.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

As far as I know PS4/PS5 don't support OpenGL or Vulkan, they have their own APIs.

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