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Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (batt

by egeres 11mo ago

Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)

Ray20 11mo ago
And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.
- LauraMedia 11mo ago
  I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast. I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM. Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break. I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again. What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.
  - pcdoodle 11mo ago
    I think he means he likes his .exe's, I too like a good exe or msi.
  - krige 11mo ago
    That's cool but I spent the last week trying to get midi music in dosbox under Mint. It's still not working. Midi. And Wine works until it suddenly doesn't and searching for solution you get stonewalled with modern day equivalent of rtfms or plain old radio silence.
    - Brett_Riverboat 11mo ago
      Thats always the worst part of linux for me. Everyone is always so hostile, I have to say though I have had a little success finding help on lemmy but not much.
  - csdreamer7 11mo ago
    To add to this Nathan Briggs does reverse engineering to make old games work on modern Windows. Windows 11 has corrected faults in it's APIs that probably should have been fixed but somehow worked with older versions of Windows that gamedevs built around. He often posts the solution and sends it GOG. Often this involves updating a community maintained wrapper around the DirectX APIs that GOG uses. I think you will really like this content. https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs
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- AstroBen 11mo ago
  Steamdeck is doing very good things for linux gaming
larrik 11mo ago
Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed
- zparky 11mo ago
  yeah they introduced vanguard anticheat on all riot games which isn't supported on linux.
  - nonethewiser 11mo ago
    Woah so Riot broke League on Linux? I guess they probably did the math but that seems like a bold move.
    - zparky 11mo ago
      yeah, and mac too, can't run league or valorant. vanguard is their kernel-level anticheat, and windows is like 95% of their market and the difficulty of implementing it on another kernel i guess isn't worth the <5%.
      - johnthedebs 11mo ago
        League works on macOS just fine, I played yesterday. Vanguard is buggy (it occasionally quits the client after I finish a game), but the game generally works and has for at least several years.
    - mrguyorama 11mo ago
      Why would it be a "bold move"? Linux gaming population is damn near zero, they do not provide a higher profit margin like mac gamers would, and the documented evidence is that supporting Linux users is obnoxious because they are rude and entitled but not actually that much better at providing feedback. Epic Games bought out rocket league and turned off a native linux build and faced no repercussions. Instead they made plenty of money. That's the bar.
      - 11mo ago

by egeres 11mo ago

Ray20 11mo ago

And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.

LauraMedia 11mo ago
I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast. I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM. Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break. I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again. What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.
- pcdoodle 11mo ago
  I think he means he likes his .exe's, I too like a good exe or msi.
- krige 11mo ago
  That's cool but I spent the last week trying to get midi music in dosbox under Mint. It's still not working. Midi. And Wine works until it suddenly doesn't and searching for solution you get stonewalled with modern day equivalent of rtfms or plain old radio silence.
  - Brett_Riverboat 11mo ago
    Thats always the worst part of linux for me. Everyone is always so hostile, I have to say though I have had a little success finding help on lemmy but not much.
- csdreamer7 11mo ago
  To add to this Nathan Briggs does reverse engineering to make old games work on modern Windows. Windows 11 has corrected faults in it's APIs that probably should have been fixed but somehow worked with older versions of Windows that gamedevs built around. He often posts the solution and sends it GOG. Often this involves updating a community maintained wrapper around the DirectX APIs that GOG uses. I think you will really like this content. https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs
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AstroBen 11mo ago
Steamdeck is doing very good things for linux gaming

larrik 11mo ago

Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed

zparky 11mo ago
yeah they introduced vanguard anticheat on all riot games which isn't supported on linux.
- nonethewiser 11mo ago
  Woah so Riot broke League on Linux? I guess they probably did the math but that seems like a bold move.
  - zparky 11mo ago
    yeah, and mac too, can't run league or valorant. vanguard is their kernel-level anticheat, and windows is like 95% of their market and the difficulty of implementing it on another kernel i guess isn't worth the <5%.
    - johnthedebs 11mo ago
      League works on macOS just fine, I played yesterday. Vanguard is buggy (it occasionally quits the client after I finish a game), but the game generally works and has for at least several years.
  - mrguyorama 11mo ago
    Why would it be a "bold move"? Linux gaming population is damn near zero, they do not provide a higher profit margin like mac gamers would, and the documented evidence is that supporting Linux users is obnoxious because they are rude and entitled but not actually that much better at providing feedback. Epic Games bought out rocket league and turned off a native linux build and faced no repercussions. Instead they made plenty of money. That's the bar.
    - 11mo ago