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Slick! Worth noting that Baldurs Gate 3 runs fine through Proton already - I played it on Linux at release with zero issues.

giancarlostoro 1y ago
Worth noting that some games run better on Linux than on Windows and have for a few years now. Crazy.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  Yeah, I noticed this myself ~4 years ago when I was playing Overwatch on a relatively low-spec PC. Gave me 10-20% GPU headroom and ~2gb of extra RAM I never had on Windows.
- Podrod 1y ago
  And sometimes the Windows version runs better under Proton than the native Linux build due to the port being so poorly done which is kinda funny. Occasionally I do still run things under Windows though like Cyberpunk 2077 as I got about 15 more frames under Windows which let me bump the graphics up a bit more. Or Assassin's Creed Mirage which got me double the FPS somehow. Currently playing AssCree Shadows on Windows too as it just refuses to run at all via Proton. Other people seem to get it running fine so I dunno why I can't. Ah well.
  - keyringlight 1y ago
    As much as linux for PC gaming has made huge strides over the past few years, it seems really hard to avoid having a dual boot to keep windows available if you're serious about the whole breadth of available games. Or if you want to avoid pitfalls on those titles that run with a list of caveats, you can go exploring on protondb and some games need a collection of commmandline tweaks to get going well. It'd be nice to have a better experience for enabling those or opt-in to commonly used configs on particular games
    - giancarlostoro 1y ago
      Maybe I'm cheating by using a 1080P monitor, but I have only ever installed Windows once and that was for Starfield since it didnt work with Proton OOTB, once they fixed it, I purged and havent gone back. In the future I wont be doing that. I love Bethesda games, so in the future I'll just wait it out. I did make sure to play the heck out of it while I was on Windows though. In hindsight, I really didn't need Windows, but I was impatient.
lyu07282 1y ago
Yep 1000h+ on Linux here, it's flawless
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
  After some patches, that is debatable: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-companions-were-too-horny-but-that-was-a-bug/1100-6517464/ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-companions-...
  - lyu07282 1y ago
    Complete nonsense, of course there were bugs d'uh! But none of them had any major impact on anything and none of that has anything to do with the fact that the game ran flawlessly on Linux from day 1.
  - saghm 1y ago
    I think they meant it was "flawless" in terms of not being a degraded experience compared to Windows. Bugs will obviously still happen, but I'd also argue that the sheer breadth of the bugs they continue to squash over two years after the full game came out without having charged a cent for any new content that got released after the fact very well might be unparalleled by any other popular mainstream game. Over the summer, they released a set of fixes that included bugs like "one specific set of gloves were rendered poorly when worn by one specific race in combination with one specific set of armor[1]. When plenty of live-service games have much worse bugs than that they don't even get acknowledged for months at a time, it just doesn't seem useful to criticize a relatively small studio that's clearly going above and beyond to continue supporting a game with the only benefit for them being continued goodwill. [1]: https://baldursgate3.game/news/room-temperature-fix-33-now-live_142 https://baldursgate3.game/news/room-temperature-fix-33-now-l...
    - 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
      Was a joke. The bug I linked was regarding how trivially easy it was to romance the companions. Such that it spawned its own speed running category (Sex %). New versions of the game have since fixed the bug so the companions will try to keep it in their pants.

giancarlostoro 1y ago

Worth noting that some games run better on Linux than on Windows and have for a few years now. Crazy.

bigyabai 1y ago
Yeah, I noticed this myself ~4 years ago when I was playing Overwatch on a relatively low-spec PC. Gave me 10-20% GPU headroom and ~2gb of extra RAM I never had on Windows.
Podrod 1y ago
And sometimes the Windows version runs better under Proton than the native Linux build due to the port being so poorly done which is kinda funny. Occasionally I do still run things under Windows though like Cyberpunk 2077 as I got about 15 more frames under Windows which let me bump the graphics up a bit more. Or Assassin's Creed Mirage which got me double the FPS somehow. Currently playing AssCree Shadows on Windows too as it just refuses to run at all via Proton. Other people seem to get it running fine so I dunno why I can't. Ah well.
- keyringlight 1y ago
  As much as linux for PC gaming has made huge strides over the past few years, it seems really hard to avoid having a dual boot to keep windows available if you're serious about the whole breadth of available games. Or if you want to avoid pitfalls on those titles that run with a list of caveats, you can go exploring on protondb and some games need a collection of commmandline tweaks to get going well. It'd be nice to have a better experience for enabling those or opt-in to commonly used configs on particular games
  - giancarlostoro 1y ago
    Maybe I'm cheating by using a 1080P monitor, but I have only ever installed Windows once and that was for Starfield since it didnt work with Proton OOTB, once they fixed it, I purged and havent gone back. In the future I wont be doing that. I love Bethesda games, so in the future I'll just wait it out. I did make sure to play the heck out of it while I was on Windows though. In hindsight, I really didn't need Windows, but I was impatient.

lyu07282 1y ago

Yep 1000h+ on Linux here, it's flawless

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
After some patches, that is debatable: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-companions-were-too-horny-but-that-was-a-bug/1100-6517464/ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-companions-...
- lyu07282 1y ago
  Complete nonsense, of course there were bugs d'uh! But none of them had any major impact on anything and none of that has anything to do with the fact that the game ran flawlessly on Linux from day 1.
- saghm 1y ago
  I think they meant it was "flawless" in terms of not being a degraded experience compared to Windows. Bugs will obviously still happen, but I'd also argue that the sheer breadth of the bugs they continue to squash over two years after the full game came out without having charged a cent for any new content that got released after the fact very well might be unparalleled by any other popular mainstream game. Over the summer, they released a set of fixes that included bugs like "one specific set of gloves were rendered poorly when worn by one specific race in combination with one specific set of armor[1]. When plenty of live-service games have much worse bugs than that they don't even get acknowledged for months at a time, it just doesn't seem useful to criticize a relatively small studio that's clearly going above and beyond to continue supporting a game with the only benefit for them being continued goodwill. [1]: https://baldursgate3.game/news/room-temperature-fix-33-now-live_142 https://baldursgate3.game/news/room-temperature-fix-33-now-l...
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
    Was a joke. The bug I linked was regarding how trivially easy it was to romance the companions. Such that it spawned its own speed running category (Sex %). New versions of the game have since fixed the bug so the companions will try to keep it in their pants.