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		nerflad on Jan 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton I'm guessing Ark on Windows uses a lot of shaders that only work with D3D.

ekianjo on Jan 22, 2019 [–]

I am not 100% sure but I think they stopped updating the version they had for Linux a long time ago (at least in terms of graphics) while they could have gone for OpenGL 4.5 and have it look just like D3D.

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