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I was under the impression a good chunk of modern games work on Linux nowadays with proton. Or is there issues having a middle software like proton for good lat

I was under the impression a good chunk of modern games work on Linux nowadays with proton. Or is there issues having a middle software like proton for good latency?

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Steltek 5y ago
I'm not a huge gamer anymore but I often use Proton over native Linux. It's such a huge difference from the Wine days.
dijit 5y ago
A lot of the reason why Ubisoft games in particular work so well in Proton -now- is because there are internal ports to Linux of many new games. This does cause a lot of the "window-isms" to get removed. Source: used to work there, and on a project which was ported to Stadia.
chevill 5y ago
Proton is really good compared to earlier attempts to game on Linux. However we still have a long way to go. The claim is that like 75% of Windows games are rated "gold" or higher for support using proton. IMO the standard for "gold" and even "platinum" is frequently a lot lower than it should be. There are some games that work perfectly, but IMO even if you stick to gold/platinum rated games there's still a >50% chance you're going to run into some kind of annoying bug or jankiness. It wasn't good enough for me so I switched back even though I'd really rather stop using Windows on any of my systems.
robotnikman 5y ago
Apparently the developers had to make it specifically compatible with an in house distro of linux used by Stadia. Which is kinda stupid, since it means that games released on Stadia which would have otherwise been natively usable on Linux systems, are not.
- dijit 5y ago
  I can't talk about gamelets as I explicitly signed an NDA preventing me from doing so. But it's not "very custom", it's just Linux. If you make it work on Stadia it will work on Linux. The main thing holding back releases on Linux is that: 1) The userbase is percieved as very small. 2) SDK features (such as entitlement checking, authorization, authentication) are only working on Windows (and Stadia is a trusted platform, so bugs aren't as big of an issue, people are relentless at abusing software they have direct access to) 3) The distribution platform outside of Steam (which is a bugbear in the AAA games industry due to being very expensive and prone to moodswings about what content is agreed and so on) doesn't exist on Linux at all.

I was under the impression a good chunk of modern games work on Linux nowadays with proton. Or is there issues having a middle software like proton for good latency?

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Steltek 5y ago

I'm not a huge gamer anymore but I often use Proton over native Linux. It's such a huge difference from the Wine days.

dijit 5y ago

A lot of the reason why Ubisoft games in particular work so well in Proton -now- is because there are internal ports to Linux of many new games. This does cause a lot of the "window-isms" to get removed. Source: used to work there, and on a project which was ported to Stadia.

chevill 5y ago

Proton is really good compared to earlier attempts to game on Linux. However we still have a long way to go. The claim is that like 75% of Windows games are rated "gold" or higher for support using proton. IMO the standard for "gold" and even "platinum" is frequently a lot lower than it should be. There are some games that work perfectly, but IMO even if you stick to gold/platinum rated games there's still a >50% chance you're going to run into some kind of annoying bug or jankiness. It wasn't good enough for me so I switched back even though I'd really rather stop using Windows on any of my systems.

robotnikman 5y ago

Apparently the developers had to make it specifically compatible with an in house distro of linux used by Stadia. Which is kinda stupid, since it means that games released on Stadia which would have otherwise been natively usable on Linux systems, are not.

dijit 5y ago
I can't talk about gamelets as I explicitly signed an NDA preventing me from doing so. But it's not "very custom", it's just Linux. If you make it work on Stadia it will work on Linux. The main thing holding back releases on Linux is that: 1) The userbase is percieved as very small. 2) SDK features (such as entitlement checking, authorization, authentication) are only working on Windows (and Stadia is a trusted platform, so bugs aren't as big of an issue, people are relentless at abusing software they have direct access to) 3) The distribution platform outside of Steam (which is a bugbear in the AAA games industry due to being very expensive and prone to moodswings about what content is agreed and so on) doesn't exist on Linux at all.