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Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by war1025 »

IshKebab wrote: post #11
axaxs wrote: post #5

As a 20 or so year long linux as a desktop user, I've had my hopes up so many times that more people would embrace Linux. It's always been about the games, largely. Hell we had id's stuff running, and there was even a company porting Blizzard stuff if I remember right. This is the first time I've been genuinely enthused that "it's happenening", and I cannot be more thankful to the Wine team and Valve.

I would say it used to be about games. But now many people use laptops and Linux has pretty terrible support for most of them. It often "works", but you'll usually have some issue with bluetooth or wifi or the trackpad, and good luck getting anywhere near as good battery life as Windows or Mac.

My wife had an HP laptop going on a decade ago that was terrible with Linux. But we've also since then had three Dell Inspirons and a Thinkpad that all work perfectly fine.

I think Linux has been perfectly adequate for "browses the internet" level users for quite a while.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by simion314 »

jdc wrote: post #12
2bitencryption wrote: post #6

One thing I've always wondered is how much "per-game fine-tuning" Proton requires. I know for some console emulators, it's not uncommon to require some per-game profiles that tweak the emulation for better compatibility for that specific game. Heck, even GPU firmware updates will mention specific games in the patch notes.[0] Is this necessary for something like Proton? [0] https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/1567…

ProtonDB can give you a good idea of how well games work without tuning. http://protondb.com

Exactly and if the game is not here check the wine database , so for example last time I checked Space Engineer is not working https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... so not everything just works, some games though work perfectly including more Unity and Unreal Engine games.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by bdefore »

2bitencryption wrote: post #6

One thing I've always wondered is how much "per-game fine-tuning" Proton requires. I know for some console emulators, it's not uncommon to require some per-game profiles that tweak the emulation for better compatibility for that specific game. Heck, even GPU firmware updates will mention specific games in the patch notes.[0] Is this necessary for something like Proton? [0] https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/1567…

Less and less so every release. At this time it greatly varies per game. ProtonDB attempts to communicate this through a separation of SteamPlay reports and Tinker reports, the latter indicating that some tweaks are necessary.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by MagnumPIG »

randomer666 wrote: post #18

I've recently switched my desktop to Linux and almost every game I need runs without any problem using proton. The biggest problem Linux gaming has is the EasyAntiCheat. Most games using it don't work at all.

Is that the DRM bdefore mentioned? Because if so, they fixed it.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by xfalcox »

bdefore wrote: post #22

In case anyone is curious about specific game compatibility, I've created a community resource for it here: https://www.protondb.com . Notably this release fixes games that required DRM enforced through the Steam client.

Thanks for protondb! Is it open source?

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by nearmuse »

So far everything I run works (with only a couple exceptions). I am really happy to see this because some remasters are not paying their due respect to the original (looking at you, WC Reforged, although it hasn't got anything to do with Steam anyway), so being able to easily run the later is important.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by bdefore »

MagnumPIG wrote: post #25
randomer666 wrote: post #18

I've recently switched my desktop to Linux and almost every game I need runs without any problem using proton. The biggest problem Linux gaming has is the EasyAntiCheat. Most games using it don't work at all.

Is that the DRM bdefore mentioned? Because if so, they fixed it.

No, EAC/BattlEye are unfortunately much trickier problems, since they are effectively rootkits that can't play nice with Wine translations of Windows APIs. This is arguably Proton's biggest challenge at the moment, since it affects the marquis popular multiplayer games such as Fortnite.

Re: Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux

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Post by void_nill »

For me as a Linux only user, Proton is an incredible relief. I have all my games on Steam and can turn on Proton with a checkbox. I often use it to play old classics like The Eldar Scrolls Morrowind or Oblivion. For me Proton is a gamechanger, because a few years ago I had a second laptop running Windows and I played my games on it. I haven't had that for three years.
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