By now you can safely assume that all games work with Linux. The very few exceptions that don't are those games that explicitly block Linux gamers.
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The only issues I've had are games with anti cheat. Otherwise everything works amazing.
There are anti-cheat games that do work, the ones that don't are only because the developers choose it.
Oh absolutely. I wasn't implying all anti cheat games don't work, but the games that don't work are anti cheat games.
Space Marine 2 is the only reason I'm still booting on Windows...
Works flawlessly on my steam deck and manjaro desktop
GRIS crashes on Proton in my experience. 😩
check out ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/683320
Yeah I have been there to troubleshoot but no matter which one I try it crashes immediately or after a few minutes of gameplay.
I am running Flatpak Steam, using Niri, streaming to a Steam Link. Might have something to do with it. I haven't yet tried local gameplay. Other games stream fine with the same setup though.
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TIL CoD works on Linux, unlike the newer BF games that don't :( (explicitly blocking)
I wouldn't call it working... And it's only older titles. Newer ones also don't. Thank you anti cheat for preventing us from playing shit games
Chrono Trigger
Wouldn't an emulator of either the snes or Playstation version work better than the PC port? 🤔
Does the newer remaster even have anything worthwhile? I personally do not like the UI compared to the OG.
And the OG SNES version has the best English translation. A hill I would gladly die on 😤
Someone set up us the bomb
"Bomb has been planted"
Even if this is the worst way to play it, it's still worth them fixing whatever the issue was. It's not like it's exclusive to that game. Whatever it was doing that wasn't working as intended likely effects other games too. It was an issue with how Proton translated it, and the fix should apply to any other similar usage of whatever graphics library it was using.
I wouldn't play the PS1 port, because of the long ~~losing~~ loading times.
I agree with that article though, that the best version to play is the DS port. The Steam release is okay, it's simply the easiest to buy nowadays.
SNES in my opinion is the superior version. and having access to better saves is also appreciated cause some fights can get long.
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call of duty is now removed from changelog https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog/_compare/e4e94568ea5df017a116a0947713e100eab5635b
When I read Call of duty cold war, I thought it was a typo, pretty sure the call of duty's post mw2019 run a rootkit anticheat that also happens to disable the games on linux in general. Maybe there's a workaround now and Activision lost it?
There's a PC version of Chrono Trigger? Huh, I guess I missed that news.
I heard it wasn't very good. Just a port of the mobile version with a lot of serious flaws. Better to emulate the SNES version.
It got patched up, it's decent enough nowadays
I haven't come across any serious issues. Although, I'm not a hard-core retro-supremacist.
Sooo what's Warframe like on Proton/Linux then?
It's run flawlessly for years. The devs are very supportive of Wine/Proton users, they've release bug fixes specifically aimed at Linux users before
Also, the GloriousEggroll person who is behind Proton GE, started his work by fixing Warframe under Wine and testing/reporting issues. Coincidentially, this version of Proton fixes Thai language rendering, and he is half-thai.
It actually runs better on my dual boot with Linux Bazzite, than Win11.
Flawless. As someone who's played Warframe for "only a few hours" I can say I haven't found any issues on Linux.
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