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Saying "many" games work better with GE is misleading I think, though perhaps technically true. The vast majority work out of the box with regular Proton. Reac
by Ferret7446 4mo ago
Saying "many" games work better with GE is misleading I think, though perhaps technically true. The vast majority work out of the box with regular Proton. Reaching for GE is definitely the exception rather than the rule in my experience.
- imtringued 4mo agoBack in 2018, using the Glorius Eggroll fork basically mandatory. Nowadays? Not so much. One of the biggest blockers I remember was that Valve refused to support some of the proprietary video codecs developed by Microsoft that only have a working legal decoder on Windows, but eventually they decided to just show a fallback image if a cutscene couldn't play.
- augusto-moura 4mo agoNot needed for working, but I always find GE's improvements on performance much better than stock Proton. I usually default my games to it anyway, since it is always installed
- jamies 4mo agoValid point! For me, the FSR3 -> FSR4 was such a big boon of performance and graphics quality it made GE Proton (with the PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 flag) the easy choice for most games that supported FSR3. Luckily, it seems Valve has just added this to their Proton, too!
- Xiexe 4mo agoI found it to be the case that while many games worked with stock proton, I often (most of the time) got much better performance from GEs proton.