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> but games currently seem to require such low level hardware access that this is rendered impossible That doesn't seem plausible considering that a lot of gam
by the8472 5y ago
> but games currently seem to require such low level hardware access that this is rendered impossible
That doesn't seem plausible considering that a lot of games run under linux with wine/proton, so clearly they don't need direct hardware access.
- cartoonworld 5y agoI don't think it follows that because they can run on linux/wine compat they don't require excessive privs. Maybe low level hardware access is not the right term, versus excessive privileges that the hardware acceleration libraries require?
- ogurechny 5y agoHardware drivers that deal with hardware acceleration are written by hardware companies. Libraries and applications only call their functions as defined in the documentation. Game programmers in most cases have no clue about the low-level specifics of hardware that accelerate their games.