cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51898658

I switched over to Linux Mint a few days ago. While the game doesn't work 'out of the box', it doesn't take too much to get working. And boy does it work - it's loading up quicker than on Windows and seems to be more responsive while on a map too.

I only had one CTD, which was while testing one of the newer mods but I wasn't able to recreate it afterwards. I'll call that a significant win.

Disclaimer: as you may or may Not Tell I’m Not the Most knowledgable about proton.

So i noticed there are few games where you can switch out graphics APIs when launching or in the ingame settings. One of the examples that come to my mind Off the top of my head is peak Where you can choose via Launch between dx11/12 and vulkan

I know That Proton is Software that translates directx api calls to vulkan for Max Performance. So I’m wondering whether it even would make Sense to switch the graphics api to vulkan if proton already seems to fully Support dx11/12? Or whether proton is still going to think the games are directx and do some weird translation stuff?

https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/3495#issuecomment-5470578629

I just installed Ubuntu on a second drive in my main machine. Unlike prior attempts, everything is working great. I play Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm regularly. I don’t see it in ProtonDB. It seems to play fine. Anyone have any issues with it? I remember long ago things like Battlefield of Eternity map circles wouldn’t show.

Okay, so by “controller” I just mean a specialized mechanical keyboard. Endless Sky is a spiritual successor to the Escape Velocity games. EDIT: I also realized this pic is from before I wired it up, but the only differences are four screws in the corners and the Micro USB cord from my long-gone Nexus 10 tablet semi-permanently coming out the back.

• Gateron Black for most of the keyboard switches
• Also got momentary toggle switches and a light duty aluminum push button, because Millennium Falcon and Top Gun.
• “DSA” and “F10” profile keycaps
• laser cut (painted Masonite) and 3D printed (PLA)enclosure
• Layout built around the in-cockpit control mapping
• Hand-wired (aka “Dead Bug”) keyboard matrix
• QMK/VIAL programmable firmware on my last Promicro with a Micro-USB cable.
• Dymo-style embossing tape labels!!!

Title. I remember having a laptop with an intel iGPU and NVidia dGPU back in the day, and trying to use Linux on it was -- Yeah not really a thing. It meant spending a whole day trying to configure the driver, then you could do optirun command, but depending on the application, it didn't matter how hard you tried or how good you smelled, that shit just wouldn't work.

It's been a long long time. Gaming on Linux has gotten better and better, but I've been using AMD stuff exclusively since ~2018

Still, getting a laptop with an AMD dGPU is... Does anyone other than Framework even make them? Either way I tried and couldn't find any to buy in my country at all.

So I'm eyeing a laptop with an NVidia GPU and an Intel processor. .... But it worries me that I would buy it and find Linux doesn't work on it. I categorically refuse to use Windows on a personal machine ever again, so I'll just do without if NVidia+Linux is still as fuckt as it was back in the day.

In my current machines I use CachyOS, but yeah.

yes i have tried polytoria, not for me

roblox sucks balls and i want to play something like old roblox, kinda like polytoria too but more like roblox, like that it has its own marketplace and stuff, not just the old roblox client. I want to be able to play with my windows friends btw, so either cross platform or in a web browser

linux mint user here! i play minecraft via prism launcher. last night, i ran into a key repeat glitch. i was stuck moving forward with no response to my Esc or Fn keys. when i closed minecraft completely, Ws would fill all available text boxes. this happened twice. restarting my laptop stopped the glitch, but i'm wondering what's causing it. is it linux, minecraft, prism launcher, or, alternatively, is this a known issue?

Hey everyone!

I'm the developer of VMDB, a community driven compatibility database that I originally built for people gaming inside virtual machines.

The basic idea is pretty simple. Instead of trying to answer "does this game work in a VM?" through scattered forum posts and old comments, VMDB collects reports from actual users and their configurations in one place.

Reports can include things like the host and guest OS, CPU and GPU, GPU passthrough, virtualization platform, anti cheat, required tweaks, performance and other details. This is especially useful with anti cheat, where compatibility can depend heavily on the exact setup.

Over the last few months VMDB has grown quite a bit, and very recently I also added Proton compatibility reports. Proton wasn't the original purpose of VMDB, but it fits the same idea really well: community reports about whether a game works and under which conditions.

VM and Proton reports are kept separate, so if you only care about Linux and Proton you can use VMDB purely for that. Likewise, the original VM side remains its own thing.

There's also a Games section for browsing the database, filtering games by compatibility and other properties, and discovering what you might actually be able to play. You don't need an account to browse or read reports.

VMDB is still relatively young. It's only about five months old, so the amount of Proton data in particular is obviously nowhere near something established like ProtonDB yet. That's something only time and community contributions can change.

If you'd like to take a look:

https://vmdb.it/

Feedback is absolutely welcome, especially from Linux gamers. If something feels confusing, is missing, or could be improved, I'd genuinely like to hear it.

Thanks for checking it out!

We do not officially support Linux and we cannot commit to having support for launch. We are still working on Official Linux Proton compatibility.

This official stance has not changed since pre-release.

We admit there was a mistake in communication by our CM which was unfortunetly screenshotted in our Discord and then posted on the linux Reddit, when the official stance has always been 'we are working on proton compatibility'.

Any previous Alpha/Beta test where Linux worked was by happen stance, which led to some users discuss the game as being Linux compatible. However, as previously stated - we do not yet officially support Linux and we are still working on our proton support for WARDOGS. We will update our stance once we have this confirmed. That is our goal.

We cannot commit to having Linux support for our Early Access launch. So please, refund the game if you mistakenly bought it thinking you would be able to run Linux via Proton on September 10th. We hope to have you back as soon as we can confirm official compatibility.

We know this is not what you want to hear... but the continued demand for Linux has been heard and it is still in our sights. Thankyou.

I've never bought or played a game with Denuvo, but I want to get Final Fantasy VII Revelation on launch and the PC version will have Denuvo, according to the Steam page.

How big a problem is this typically? Can I expect it to work on Linux?

I could go for the PS5 version, but the last game (FF7 Rebirth) had a shitty performance mode on PS5, and my PC is a good bit more powerful. So I'd lean toward PC if it's viable.

It seems like a safe bet that Square-Enix willl eventually ditch Denuvo, since they do that for most of their games. So I'm not too worried long-term but I want a smooth experience day 1.

Normally I'd wait for user reports, but I definitely want to play on day 1, so I'll be one of the users reporting instead. :)

What's your experience been if you've been stuck with Denuvo before?

Head tracking is a gamechanger for flying or driving games. I've used opentrack successfully with Star Citizen via lutris but have been struggling to get it working for steam games. LookPilot seems to work well and is fairly cheap but isn't FOSS. I know there are loads of other alternatives so I'm wondering what have you found that works well?

Summary of "Anti Cheat at Embark Studios" prensentation by Embark Studios Senior Software Engineer Tom van Dijck, at devcom in Germany on August 24.

... Linux presents an even worse situation. Because users can custom-build the OS kernel, embedding a cheat directly into the kernel and compiling it makes it nearly impossible for a game to detect its existence. "How do you detect that?" van Dijck asked, adding that while support for SteamOS and Proton will remain, platform requirements will become stricter.

Though he mentions anti-cheat on Linux being more challenging to implement that on Windows, he doesn't seem to think that it's impossible. He goes on to talk about "undetectable" cheating hardware becoming cheaper, which sounds like a bigger problem, but he sounds optimistic about being able to detect those as well.

IMO "platform requirements will become stricter" could mean something like only allowing signed kernels with anti-cheat module built in + secure boot.

these open source games are cool cause you can play em on anything?

i certainly love luanti/mineclonia

My machine has a single NVMe slot, so I swapped my 500GB drive with a 2TB last night and did a fresh Bazzite install. I put the 500 into a USB enclosure and hooked it up expecting to be able to copy my games off of it. Steam sees the old drive but lists all its contents as "Non-Steam".

I have tried 'repairing' the library but that does nothing. I tried manually mounting the drive to another path but with the same result.

What's the best way to get the games off this drive?

Edit: just to clarify, the 500GB drive is a Bazzite install. It was the primary drive until recently.

Overall from 4.01% down to 3.9% (blue line)

But for English it stayed at exactly 8.42% (green line)

Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/