Exagear is dead

[ptitSeb]

Well, GoG and HumbleBundle are full of Closed sources linux games. And there is also Steam on Linux, that's why I asked.

 

[WizardStan]

I've got a lot of Linux games in my Steam library that I'd like to play on the go.

 

[Eight Bit]

Okay, I downloaded the rpi and arm versions...

 

[asimov-solensan]

Finally I bought it. I guess the product wasn't attractive at all if you look at youtube, people barely get things running and performance showed is horrible.

Can't know if will be different in Pyra but still I remember this video that was very promising:

 

[TrashyMG]

@asimov-solensan , yeah I made that video while ago...

 

[elvissteinjr]

I mean, apparently they did ports of games like Resident Evil 5 and Metal Gear Rising for NVidia Shield with the Exagear tech.
Who knows what other optimizations were done there, but it seems like it can get some stuff done with the right device.
Keep in mind that the video says it's not using hardware accelerated 3D.

 

[TrashyMG]

Keep in mind that the video says it's not using hardware accelerated 3D.

Yeah Mesa software rendering. Although the Borderlands 2 example was just steam in-house streaming.

 

[MrJustreborn]

Maybe WINE-Hangover could be a good replacement:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hangover-0.4-Alpha-Released

 

[TrashyMG]

Maybe WINE-Hangover could be a good replacement:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hangover-0.4-Alpha-Released

Only if we had a 64-bit ARM processor in the Pyra.

 

[WizardStan]

Keep in mind that the video says it's not using hardware accelerated 3D.

3D acceleration was added with v2, and apparently it's even better with v3 now.

 

[TrashyMG]

3D acceleration was added with v2, and apparently it's even better with v3 now.

Well which would have been lovely IF I had the SGX drivers working at the time when making that video.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Maybe WINE-Hangover could be a good replacement:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hangover-0.4-Alpha-Released

I wonder why people make things for ARM but only 64 bit. It's not very common!

 

[ptitSeb]

I think 3D Acceleration for Exagear is only for Raspberry PI opensource 3D driver.

Wine-Hangover is targetting android platform probably, and Google will make 64bits native library mandatory this year, so that seems the correct move (even if largely more difficult to emulate the x86_64 architecture then the already complicate x86 one).

 

[WizardStan]

Aw dangit, you're right
"ExaGear Desktop supports 3D hardware graphics acceleration on Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 models."
Well that's a fine kick in the pants.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Oh well that sucks.

 

[levi]

I'm surprised how many of you are willing to plonk some cash on some closed source that'll never get any faster or have any bugs fixed. I mean we've all done the same with closed source games before steam et al made updating easy, but those were entertaining no matter how badly they run. I guess this should let you play some of those old games on the go though, so I guess I can understand it really.

 

[WizardStan]

I'm surprised how many of you are willing to plonk some cash on some closed source that'll never get any faster or have any bugs fixed.

Most of us plonked the cash years ago as an investment, to show them that we believed in the value of the product they wanted to offer even though it was in a pretty new state with poor licensing. They made a lot of promises and most of those promises only partially materialized.

 

[TrashyMG]

I'm surprised how many of you are willing to plonk some cash on some closed source that'll never get any faster or have any bugs fixed.

I spent a lot more on dumber investments...

 

[ptitSeb]

On a similar subject, I have 3D Hardware acceleration (that video is on the Pandora, but it also work on Odroid, no doubt on Pyra once SGX Driver will be operationnal)
(not using Exagear, nor Wine, nor QEMU...)

 

[ElPoco]

Ooohh, what's that Box86?