Linux gamer for 3+ years now. I rarely, rarely have any issues with anything at all, and most of those are solved by switching to Proton GE or Experimental. Most of the time I think stuff actually runs better than on Windows.
But to be clear, I don't really play anything multiplayer. The sole exceptions like Civ VI have worked perfectly fine, but my understanding is that a big reason these larger multiplayer games don't work is their anticheat.
Been gaming on linux for the better part of last couple of decades, can agree its in a muhc better place now and its a rarety to find a title that doesn't work through proton. There are some but not a massive amount.
Kinda ironic but out of the ones that don't work for proton, sometimes they work via wine instead
Proton is like magic. I remember when gaming on Linux only worked for some rather old games. Now you can almost buy anything from Steam and expect it to work on Linux. What surprised me the most was that even Enderal, an excellent total conversion mod for Skyrim, just worked. The same goes for the newest Hitman. I expected that I have to do some tinkering, but no. You click play and that is it. I doubt that any of these games where ever tested on Linux by their developers. That they all work so well shows how good of a job the developers of Proton, DXVK, and Wine are doing.
Out of everything i play, the only game holding me back is Destiny 2, which was explicitly refused support for.
Everything else works phenomenally well, and in some rare cases, performs a lot better.
The only struggle point is heavily modded games with tools that assume i’m doing this on windows, but times are changing too
72% platinum and gold, 86% plat, gold and silver. I'm honestly surprised that this isn't higher because almost everything I play just works (I do have a lot of random games in my account from humble bundles and such, so I don't even play a good amount of them).
Funny enough what I've been playing recently is Minecraft. Downloaded the Prism launcher, linked my account, installed the game and the BetterMC modpack which includes pretty heavy lighting shaders, get an easy 120fps with absolutely zero tinkering besides telling the game to use my systems OpenAL rather than the bundled one, as that was causing a crash. I do have a relatively beefy system so the performance isn't what I'm impressed by, moreso the fact that this was all up and running in 5 minutes.
I launched might and magic 9 on my steam deck and it fucking worked straight away. It's a 2002 game that was barely working even back then. I didn't have to do anything today get it to work. SHIT JUST WORKS
I'm not sure why, but playing Final Fantasy XIV worked better in Linux using Wine than it did on Windows. There's a joke about net code in the game such that all effects take a half second or so to register, so there's always a little lag for better or worse.
On Linux, somehow things just registered when they happened on screen. Took getting used to!
79% gold and platinum, 87% platinum gold and silver, I've definitely played a number of "not supported" (or too early access to be on proton db). Of 1405 games I'd say I'm set for life
%1 Chromebook Ready😂😂
The site is https://www.protondb.com/ if you want to check your own library.
Can you use that site to see which of your games fall into each category? I've got a few in the red bronze and silver, but it would be nice to see at a glance which of them it is.
Out of 73 games
Pretty good. Only two multiplayer games in the silver area that I might play once every 3-5 years. The rest I don't care about. But overall very good if one doesn't care about multiplayer games.
Maybe it's just my "golden touch", but like 70% of the games I've tried to play have had some kind of issue. I recently got a steam deck and I regularly have crashes where the whole deck just does a full restart. Usually while I'm already gaming for a while. On the deck most games do generally start though, which is better than my own PC. On my PC I tend to have to hack around a bit before it works. For now I'm still gaming on Windows because of this instability, but I will have to switch at some point due to Micro$oft's ever growing greed
What I don’t get is why some games (even newer ones) don’t work in newer versions of proton but do work in older versions of proton.
I’m talking games working in proton 7.x or 8.<low number> that don’t work in say proton 9 or proton 8.<higher number>.
I rarely seem to have any luck with newer versions let alone proton experimental.
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Call me when my DRG works "out of the box" like every guide says, when xlink kai and dolphin stop bugging out for some reason, when Ryujinx and other lan emulators or games allow me to connect through my vpn with my friend, or when tModLoader stops doing weird things with the light.
I am tired of trying and troubleshooting, it might just be my hardware, it might be something else, who tf knows? But doesn't matter how much I want to jump ship if the ship just doesn't work for some unknown reason.
Chromebook: *whomp-whoump*
18 months ago I tried to roll my own SteamBox. Games launched from Steam worked great. Everything launched from other launchers was mixed, but wouldn't launch from Steam...generally speaking. I switched back to Windows and removed the login because I wanted a console-like experience.
I wish Valve would launch an updated SteamOS.
I think I got it.
The right side is showing what percentage of games can be played at each level. Platinum is flawless, and borked is... borked. The percentages below that show that 84% of games are super playable, 95% if you're willing to settle for silver.
The outside ring is the one that shows these percentages.
I'm still unsure of the center rings though.
More like 84%. Silver tier is probably way more unplayable than on Windows.
