Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics : linux

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 119 points 11 months ago

I'm glad they found a way, but at the same time - what the hell? Why is it OK for game devs of this magnitude to have a hardcoded hardware list? Look for feature support, not a string that is easy to manipulate outside your control!

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 11 months ago

The problem in this case is that they automatically trigger XeSS, which isn't bad unto itself (unless it can't be deactivated, which this sounds like).

The GPU does support XeSS but it crashes on Linux. If they just added a toggle/cmd flag to disable the feature changing the vendorId wouldn't be necessary.

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Could the game developers simply add this toggle for XeSS?

[-] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago

LinUX iS nOt A sUpPoRrtEd PlaTfOrm

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am playing Baldur's Gate 3 (can't say enough great things about this game) and they had a toggle in the game setting for upscaling options. And DLSS runs great with my Linux PC. I thought I heard Larian say they are trying to get XeSS too.

You can enable either Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR via the settings menu.

[-] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I imagine Larian care. Especially since they're pushing Steamdeck support.

The reason this is a "supported platform" issue is that the developers of Hogwarts legacy know their supported platforms support XeSS, so any work that is not "just turn it on" is additional work for no gain.

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Could Intel fix the issue with XeSS on Linux?

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Is the problem with Intel, Linux, or the game itself?

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

I would bet money that Intel's dev rel team worked closely with Avalanche to add XeSS support to sell more Intel GPUs.

Most likely the Hogwarts devs were said, "sure, do whatever you want on your own hardware, just don't you dare break anything on any other platform while we're trying to ship". The easiest way to green light this and know nothing else would be affected would be to hard code everything behind Intel's vendor IDs.

So this probably isn't a case of Intel working around a game dev's code, it's probably a case of Intel working around its own code.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

IIRC, with an Nvidia card DXVK will spoof an AMD card in a lot of games because otherwise the game will try to interact with the Windows Nvidia drivers which aren't there.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months ago

You remember correctly. From the DXVK conf file:

# Report Nvidia GPUs as AMD GPUs by default. This is enabled by default
# to work around issues with NVAPI, but may cause issues in some games.
#
# Supported values: True, False

# dxgi.nvapiHack = True

[-] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

nteract with the Windows Nvidia drivers which aren’t there

Funny story. I was trying to get RayTracing working under Wine for a few days and finally found the solution (needed to download the nvlibs zip from GitHub and run the installer).

Couple weeks later I went back into Wine and it was broken. After another 3 days of struggling, I decided to redownload nvlibs and run the installer, when I noticed it only symlinks the needed libraries into WINEPREFIX. Me, being the resource miser I am, had removed the folder from ~/Downloads when I thought I was done with it ...

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 50 points 11 months ago

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[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

Good bot!

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 49 points 11 months ago

Cool, but i don't intend to give money to anything that supports the Queen of TERFdom

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Easier to torrent now 😎

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd feel iffy about even that tbh

JK's anti trans meltdown has soured all my interest in the HP universe

[-] waz@feddit.uk 10 points 11 months ago

What’s that?

[-] bric@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago

Terf stands for "Trans exclusionary Radical feminist", which is a type of feminist that pushes for women's rights, but doesn't support transgender rights, and thinks MtF transgender people don't count as women.

A lot of people have boycotted Hogwarts legacy because of her political views. Personally, I think it's a bit extreme to boycott a great game made by a studio and developers that have nothing to do with her views just because she gets royalties on it, but that's a matter of personal opinion

[-] Adorable_Sergal@hachyderm.io 19 points 11 months ago

@waz @bric Except for this little bit:

https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222

And they kinda very much *are* her views. She did, after all, write a series of books replete with Jewish stereotypes and slavery apologia that, yeah, went over a lot of our heads when the books first came out because yay wizardstuffs, but now in context with everything else, it makes more sense. This game even involves putting down a goblin rebellion.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is it really a great game though? It's pretty, and the Hogwarts part is cool, but it's pretty shit in my opinion. It doesn't take it's world seriously. For example, the groundskeeper is the person who teaches you how to pick locks (and they turned an unlocking spell into a shitty lockpicking mini game you have to do over and over) and tells you to break curfew. This is the only time the curfew even matters though. All other times you run around at night and no one is around and no one cares.

You also do the same three or four boring activities all over. Sure, the world is fairly large and looks pretty, but it's about the most bland I've seen in a game, and it's supposed to be magical. Every location just had these same thing to make it not feel empty, but it totally is.

They saw the Ubisoft open world games and had the thought of all the crap people complain about those for should be their goal, and then they somehow made them even worse. It is the most uninspired game I've played in a long time once you get past the graphics and thinking it's cool just because the series it's based on was done well.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 9 points 11 months ago

Are you sure the developers have nothing to do with it?

[-] apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Even if they don't, buying this game still goes in to lining JKRs pockets, something she has explicitly considered as validation of her beliefs.

The makers of the movies, and the publishers of the books also probably didn't all have anti-trans views, but they don't have to for JKR to use them to cause harm.

I get it, the devs of a good game don't deserve to be attached to her, but you've got to draw the line somewhere and this is where I've chosen to draw mine.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago

Oh, 100%. I was just pointing out that the whole project was shitty, not just JKR. But JKR is 100% shitty.

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[-] aes@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric and activism has enough influence to lead directly or otherwise to the further persecution and discrimination against an already marginalised minority group.

She at some point opted for or was identified by those with similar views as the term TERF, a 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist' (the acronym is arguably problematic). The queer community and queer allies use the term with a implied derogatory connotation. A number of TERFs who picked up on this connotation now believe that it is an insult, and do not wish to be labelled as such (despite TERFs coining the term themseIves).

[-] Morgikan@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric and activism has enough influence to lead directly or otherwise to the further persecution and discrimination against an already marginalised minority group.

So does Lemmy and its developers pro-Uyghur slavery/genocide viewpoints. That doesn't stop you from using or enjoying Lemmy though. Everyone has their own red line. Lemmy hasn't crossed yours just like J. K. Rowling hasn't crossed theirs.

[-] aes@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

What exactly are you arguing against, here? I don't waste time on people who try to strawman me.

[-] Morgikan@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

No, that wouldn't be a straw man argument. If you're going to try to call fallacy on something you would have to argue appeal to hypocrisy. However the hypocrisy is based on your post and previous posts calling for a boycott for something you find morally reprehensible while at the same time using a platform created by the morally reprehensible. One you have a problem with the other you do not. It calls into question your own morals when they only serve you when you think they should. That's all.

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[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So does Lemmy and its developers pro-Uyghur slavery/genocide viewpoints.

Im genuinely interested in a source for this statement.

Edit: I added the quote block for clarity.

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Idiots

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[-] wallmenis@lemmy.one 22 points 11 months ago

Imagine lying to a game because you haven't fixed your own features...

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

That sounds like a Not The Onion headline

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