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Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by Lewton »

ekianjo wrote: post #27
Lewton wrote: post #22

Proton worked decently for VR last I tried 6 months ago. But I started it up again recently and everything is broken now, partially due to steam updates and partially due to updates to Unity. The entire reason I moved to Linux was because I loathe forced updates >:(

Sadly if you are into VR the only real viable OS right now is Windows...

I only need a working VR videoplayer and a couple of experiences for demoing to people. Which 6 months ago was what was available and now nothing works, not even valves own VR tutorial

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by Tyr42 »

w0utert wrote: post #30

Is anyone using Linux + Proton for in-home streaming? I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the steam link in the living room. Does this work just as well with Linux/Proton as Windows?

I've streamed native linux games no problem. I'm not sure if I was streaming proton.

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by ekianjo »

w0utert wrote: post #30

Is anyone using Linux + Proton for in-home streaming? I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the steam link in the living room. Does this work just as well with Linux/Proton as Windows?

It works well, yes. However I can't compare with Windows since I don't have any Windows install anymore, so probably you need to get a comment from someone who dual boots!

By the way you can also stream PS4 games to your Linux Desktop with Chiaki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afc_V73_3w&feature=emb_logo

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by onli »

danielscrubs wrote: post #12

The only things these things teach me is that "Platinum - It runs perfectly" is that ProtonDB creators clearly have a different view on perfect. "Doom Eternal runs perfectly - it just have some pink flickering every minute!" "runs perfectly - it just closes when you try to start it." "runs perfectly - multiplayer doesn't work though." Microsoft can change DirectX whenever they want, that goalpost is always going to c…

ProtonDB had that issue in the beginning when users selected their own rating, but they changed the rating system. The only complain that could remain is the one for the multiplayer - if the single player runs perfectly but the multiplayer not, which rating is that? But pure multiplayer games are rated correctly, see https://www.protondb.com/app/578080 for example.

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by ekianjo »

Lewton wrote: post #31
ekianjo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly if you are into VR the only real viable OS right now is Windows...

I only need a working VR videoplayer and a couple of experiences for demoing to people. Which 6 months ago was what was available and now nothing works, not even valves own VR tutorial

Out of curiosity on which distro are you?

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by mrighele »

albertzeyer wrote: post #4
everdrive wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe natively supported games still receive the "Steamplay" icon, whereas proton-supported games will show the Windows icon, but will install and run on Linux. (assuming proton is configure)

So how do you know if a game with only the Windows icon is supported (via Proton)?

Last time I checked by default only a limited number of verified titles is playable with Proton, so if it appears in your list, it should work well. You can enable Proton for all your games, although then I think there is no way to distinguish a verified title from the others.

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by narcolepsy »

w0utert wrote: post #30

Is anyone using Linux + Proton for in-home streaming? I'm seriously considering to completely ditch Windows 10 and move my gaming to PS4/5 + Linux/Proton, but I still want to be able to stream games from the game PC to the steam link in the living room. Does this work just as well with Linux/Proton as Windows?

Yeah I've had it running and streaming! Have run a few games this was - ARMA3, GTAV, South Park: Stick of Truth. All worked well. Have also tried running the windows steam client in WINE and had a few more issues, but as ever YMMV.

The performance isn't quite as good (very close to windows perf levels), but quite a few anti-cheat systems will not work in Proton (even less so in WINE).

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by coldpie »

albertzeyer wrote: post #4
everdrive wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe natively supported games still receive the "Steamplay" icon, whereas proton-supported games will show the Windows icon, but will install and run on Linux. (assuming proton is configure)

So how do you know if a game with only the Windows icon is supported (via Proton)?

The official whitelist lives here, https://steamdb.info/app/891390/info/ about halfway down in the "SteamPlay App Mappings" section. It has very stringent requirements and is not often updated. ProtonDB may be a better place to get an idea if a game is "playable," as opposed to the "perfect" that the whitelist is aiming for.

Re: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

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Post by ressetera »

Porting games seems pretty hard IMO. Why isn't there an intensive to port the latest Adobe CC software [1] too?

I know a few designers & video editors who use passthrough to run Adobe software on their beefy workstations, which I would also prefer as I'd rather not use multiarch on my linux system.

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

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