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The Proton compatibility tool is fantastic. I game mostly on Linux and I remember just a few years ago having anxiety while purchasing a new Windows game becau

The Proton compatibility tool is fantastic. I game mostly on Linux and I remember just a few years ago having anxiety while purchasing a new Windows game because I wasn't sure that I would get it working. Since then the support has become so good I have practically no anxiety at all. If the game doesn't launch first try it's usually just a couple settings that need tweaking. Most things just work right out of the box.

paulryanrogers 5y ago
Do you have any anxiety around how the games work after launch? I enjoy a lot of older games and sometimes they glitch in some cases. A VM of the original target platform seems the most reliable IME.
- zelon88 5y ago
  Sometimes. In particular the game Uboat stopped working after an update and I was unable to get it going. To be expected however, as the game is still in Early Access. Another early access title that I ran into problems with after launch was Postal 4. I found a workaround is to replace the bundled direct X installer with some other silent installer that returns the expected return code. Other issues tend to crop up around custom launchers. Usually in this instance I will search online for the command line arguments to bypass the launcher or simply launch the game directly. The last subset of issues I seem to experience revolve around fullscreen/window mode. I find that some combination of ALT+Enter and F11 typically resolves this. If not I usually resort to running the game in a Window and undecorating it. However in some games this does not capture the mouse and can cause the window to lose focus if you click outside of the game window.
  - MayeulC 5y ago
    gamescope should help with that by running games in their own Xorg server as well as handling the scaling, and gaming on wayland/sway helped me a lot with getting games to behave consistently with other programs. It does have its own issues sometimes, certainly. I hope gamescope will help route around them.

paulryanrogers 5y ago

Do you have any anxiety around how the games work after launch? I enjoy a lot of older games and sometimes they glitch in some cases. A VM of the original target platform seems the most reliable IME.

zelon88 5y ago
Sometimes. In particular the game Uboat stopped working after an update and I was unable to get it going. To be expected however, as the game is still in Early Access. Another early access title that I ran into problems with after launch was Postal 4. I found a workaround is to replace the bundled direct X installer with some other silent installer that returns the expected return code. Other issues tend to crop up around custom launchers. Usually in this instance I will search online for the command line arguments to bypass the launcher or simply launch the game directly. The last subset of issues I seem to experience revolve around fullscreen/window mode. I find that some combination of ALT+Enter and F11 typically resolves this. If not I usually resort to running the game in a Window and undecorating it. However in some games this does not capture the mouse and can cause the window to lose focus if you click outside of the game window.
- MayeulC 5y ago
  gamescope should help with that by running games in their own Xorg server as well as handling the scaling, and gaming on wayland/sway helped me a lot with getting games to behave consistently with other programs. It does have its own issues sometimes, certainly. I hope gamescope will help route around them.