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> There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work. While Proton is great, it helps no one to
by giobox 5y ago
> There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work.
While Proton is great, it helps no one to suggest it's a solution to making all games work. There are absolutely enormous multiplayer titles still unavailable
on Proton, if you can't play the games your friends play who cares if 99% of the rest of the Steam library works?
Again, I think Proton is great, and only getting better. It is not though a drop in replacement for a Windows gaming machine, for most people, yet.
- OscarCunningham 5y agoThey have promised they'll fix this for the Steam Deck, so there's a chance this will change in the next week.
- NeoVeles 5y agoThey have also said they would implement a rating system of how well proton will run various games. From 'Perfect' all the way down to 'unplayable'. I think it was their quiet way of saying they couldn't meet the standard they set, at least, not yet.
- randomhodler84 5y agohttps://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ has been around for a while and provides all of this. I consult it before buying titles.
- idiotsecant 5y agoIs steam deck supposed to release next week?
- OscarCunningham 5y agoYes, February 25th.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoAgreed on all counts. Proton (and WINE in general, really) is an impressive piece of work that has done wonders to make software available on Linux Desktop, but it is not a perfect solution. Personally, I'm sick enough of Microsoft's shit that I'm now willing to put up with Linux Desktop's shit instead and if that means I miss a few games, I'll live with it. I don't play competitive online games anyway.
- christkv 5y agoA friend virtualized his hardware and just assigned a dedicated gpu to the windows vm under Linux and gets close to native performance for games.
- giobox 5y agoThis approach is a lot more hassle to setup than Proton, but it does yield some really great performance and ~100% game compatibility. I've been planning to go this way for my next desktop build (Windows gaming VM with native GPU pass-through).
- FreeFull 5y agoNot quite 100% compatibility, since some games intentionally detect if they're running in a VM, and refuse to launch, for anti-cheat purposes.
- labster 5y agoAnd yet I know gamers who have fully switched to Proton. I’m too lazy, and have a windows box reserved for games; it would be PII-free if it weren’t for the darn Microsoft account. But for some, Proton is already a better Windows.
- smoldesu 5y agoIt's not a feature-complete solution, but a good 90% of the games you own will "just work" without any additional tinkering required. Some games (like Overwatch) are just straight-up smoother running through Wine/DXVK: https://youtu.be/voXc1nCD4IA https://youtu.be/voXc1nCD4IA
- crazypython 5y agoWhich games specifically do not work? Proton has been improving rapidly.
- johnny22 5y agoGames that require certain anti-cheats that either valve doesn't support or the dev doesn't opt into. It seems to be mostly related to multi player online games. Also games that have issues with patented codecs, although valve is working around that by transcoding them to a different format, so they can play locally without the relevant decodre
- smegger001 5y agoAs i mostly play single player titles me. Have been using linux as my daily driver since 2010, I play game that work on my system if they have a multiplayer and my friends are interested fine I might multiplayer with them otherwise i am fine on my own. I wont support bulshit and put up with MS on my machine just for a game, there are plenty of other things entertain me.