i can play elder scrolls online a directX 11 only game with wine.
I have no doubt that soon wine will run Elite dangerous
I have no doubt that soon wine will run Elite dangerous
I think my path with a new Ryzen PC will be Linux OS running a Win7 VM for the few games I can't run natively. I'm looking at UnRaid as well so we'll see if that's viable.And No, I don't know of anyone successfully using Linux (any distro) or any Wine Configuration to get any portion of Elite to run, and I also gave it a whirl. There are many reasons why Elite won't work in Wine, most have to do with MS DLL's needed.
I've posted this elsewhere but I'm sure this is on topic...
The only reason people use Windows is because you only need "A chimpanzee and two trainees" to run it...http://www.theviewscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tsfs0559-600x252.jpg
But when things go wrong...
http://basementrejects.com/wp-conte...i-the-search-for-spock-enterprise-on-fire.jpg
And that is why we should have a Linux version.
E: D does not work with DX 11 on Wine. It may be TL: DR but that info was in the thread.
Since Wine is being updated all the time with support for new games, it is conceivable that this had changed since the original discussion (this threads starts back in 2012). The other variable is that I'm not looking to run ED, I'm looking to run the ED Combat Tutorial Demo, which is likely a very simplified, stripped down version of full ED. There's a chance this demo would actually run even if the full version does not.
One of my other games on Steam, Dirt Rally came over to Linux not all that long ago. Always nice to see a game I have brought over. Runs pretty great on my laptop too actually, even though it doesn't quite meet the minimum specs.
Maybe one of these years I can count Elite: Dangerous among the ranks. *fingers crossed*
For me, Elite Dangerous is the only reason why I'm using Windows - everything else (including games like Cities Skylines or Kerbal Space Program) is running fine with Ubuntu.
I was using Win7, and I'm one of those guys that do not want to install spysoft Win10. At least Frontier has 3 years left for migration...
....It' s not that difficul to port E: D to Linux, and we've pledged since we' ve been promised a Linux version after a Mac OSX, IIRC.
Sorry but I don't recall FDev ever promising a Linux version, and nor would I ever expect to see one. The user base of Linux is just too small.
We are treating Linux seriously, we need to do some research for costings and so forth before promising. I'm sure you'd rather we did that than just slap the stretch goal up and hope for the bestMichael