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Dear Rivals @Game NewsRecently, we've received feedback fromplayers regarding an issue where someindividuals playing in compatibility layerprograms have been mistakenly flagged ascheaters, even without using any cheatingsoftware. This has resulted in bans. Wesincerely apologize for this situation andwant to assure you that we do not & will noban players who are playing fairly andwithout cheating.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree, but, to be fair, WINE is not an emulator, it's a translation layer. It may seem like it doesn't matter but it's an important distinction.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf the devs said "compatibility layer"

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

True but the title said emulation so I had to correct OP anyway lol

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you explain more what are the differences?

[–] aarroyoc@lemuria.es 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In an emulator you're capable of running a piece of software in a hardware that it wasn't designed to be run. In Wine you still need a hardware originally designed for the game (x86 CPU, graphics card, etc) because it only fakes that it is being executed under Windows by providing Windows APIs, but the underlying hardware must still be compatible.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They are similar, but generally emulators have a higher run-time cost - this is because they are "emulating" an entire system, not just translating system calls. By cost, I mean performance of course. Emulators typically simulate/mimic other hardware, whereas translation layers just convert the system calls to be run natively on your existing hardware (which means your CPU architecture must match, etc).

Wine is far faster than regular emulation would traditionally be.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Okay thank you