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

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2y ago

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

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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!
- 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.
  
  Could the game developers simply add this toggle for XeSS?
- 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.
- 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.
  
  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
- Good bot!
Cool, but i don't intend to give money to anything that supports the Queen of TERFdom
- Easier to torrent now 😎
  
  I'd feel iffy about even that tbh
  JK's anti trans meltdown has soured all my interest in the HP universe
- What’s that?
  
  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
  
  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).
  
  Idiots
  
  jk rowling the resident sub-human trash
- That and is has Denuvo.
- it supports trans… people… damn that was hard to write… which is the reason I never bought it
  Not sure I'm understanding... You're saying you didn't buy the game because the content of it is pro trans? And what about that sentence was hard to write?
  you would not support Rowling by buying it because it’s trying to do the opposite. There’s even a trans character in a pub.
  JK profits from the game's sales
  
  @headlesscyborg @irmoz if you’re so anti-trans maybe you should get off the catgirl’s internet.
  
  We're you born retarded?
Imagine lying to a game because you haven't fixed your own features...
That sounds like a Not The Onion headline
🤮

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