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We knew our windows version wasn't going to work with proton so we made a native linux version that works on steamos. Sadly we remain listed as Unsupported on s

by bartwe 5y ago

We knew our windows version wasn't going to work with proton so we made a native linux version that works on steamos. Sadly we remain listed as Unsupported on steamdeck as it seems to really want to use the broken windows version through proton instead of the working linux native version.

Scramblejams 5y ago
What game is it? Always interested in checking out games by those who care to release Linux builds.
- jpgleeson 5y ago
  Probably Staxel. Bartwe works on that and is active in FNA, a cross platform XNA reimplementation.
  - Scramblejams 5y ago
    Thanks. Wishlisted!
bdefore 5y ago
This is a minority situation but an important one for the exceptions. Under the shadow of the rise of Proton it's getting harder to surface that sometimes you want to force Steam to use the native version. Something something the turn tables. I recently changed the report questions to allow specifying 'Native. No Proton' as an an answer to 'Which Proton do you use'. It's gotten a few grumbles ('this is a site for Proton') but I think it's worth doing for cases like yours. Given enough samples, the site will be able to highlight games that have a significant amount of users preferring native over Proton for some games and I think it'll be a curious enough set to warrant its own filter or highlight section. Thanks for describing your case. I've linked to it in my todo notes to keep in mind.
tormeh 5y ago
Hm... Presumably this is a setting Valve can change on a per-game basis. Have they said anything?
moltke 5y ago
One quick "just make it work" solution might be to ship Linux binaries with the Windows version, check if you're on wine, then execute the Linux binaries via an exec syscall[1]. I'd imagine the bulk of the game is going to be assets not code so that (maybe?) wouldn't make the game too much larger. [1]https://gist.github.com/q3k/e5952111283ea59ee78a7699919a055b https://gist.github.com/q3k/e5952111283ea59ee78a7699919a055b

by bartwe 5y ago

Scramblejams 5y ago

What game is it? Always interested in checking out games by those who care to release Linux builds.

jpgleeson 5y ago
Probably Staxel. Bartwe works on that and is active in FNA, a cross platform XNA reimplementation.
- Scramblejams 5y ago
  Thanks. Wishlisted!

bdefore 5y ago

This is a minority situation but an important one for the exceptions. Under the shadow of the rise of Proton it's getting harder to surface that sometimes you want to force Steam to use the native version. Something something the turn tables. I recently changed the report questions to allow specifying 'Native. No Proton' as an an answer to 'Which Proton do you use'. It's gotten a few grumbles ('this is a site for Proton') but I think it's worth doing for cases like yours. Given enough samples, the site will be able to highlight games that have a significant amount of users preferring native over Proton for some games and I think it'll be a curious enough set to warrant its own filter or highlight section. Thanks for describing your case. I've linked to it in my todo notes to keep in mind.

tormeh 5y ago

Hm... Presumably this is a setting Valve can change on a per-game basis. Have they said anything?

moltke 5y ago

One quick "just make it work" solution might be to ship Linux binaries with the Windows version, check if you're on wine, then execute the Linux binaries via an exec syscall[1]. I'd imagine the bulk of the game is going to be assets not code so that (maybe?) wouldn't make the game too much larger. [1]https://gist.github.com/q3k/e5952111283ea59ee78a7699919a055b https://gist.github.com/q3k/e5952111283ea59ee78a7699919a055b