Valve Proton has made gaming close to solved too. Most...

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Valve Proton has made gaming close to solved too. Most single-player games work great, but anti-cheat remains problematic.

Almost everything I play is really smooth. Hilariously, my Windows 11 install runs games worse somehow *confused*. And I've done basically no tinkering to my Linux install, I use almost all defaults...

Like 22 May at 12:32 | Open on mastodon.social

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Marek :troll_face:

@gamingonlinux yeah... i've noticed that as well, some windows games run better under proton than natively on windows....

22 May at 12:34 | Open on 101010.pl

Splatsune 3 :genderfluid_flag:

@gamingonlinux I started an experiment of being Linux-only late last year as a result of how far Proton has come, and I haven't needed to boot up Windows at all since (though I have done to play around with libvirt and such).

The only thing that I miss doing is modding for A Hat in Time, since while I *can* get into its UE3 with protontricks tweaks, the performance was not great the last I tried. Might give it a go again now I'm all AMD.

22 May at 12:41 | Open on social.thegeneral.chat

Mizah

@gamingonlinux Same experience here. I just ignore platform requirements these days; just a quick check on ProtonDB is all.

22 May at 12:44 | Open on macrofurs.social

Guillaume Jacquemin

@gamingonlinux Videos can be problematic too, because a lot of recent games use H264 and similar codecs Valve can't ship.

22 May at 12:49 | Open on framapiaf.org

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Gary Parker

@gamingonlinux what's *really* confusing is many Windows games run better via Proton on Steamdeck than their native linux ports do

Until you think about how much time/effort/money is invested in optimising the Windows version for the larger customer base 🤷‍♂️

22 May at 13:29 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@witewulf when you know why, it's not confusing, a lot of Linux "ports" were made by a third-party, plenty were click-to-export with no effort put in, Proton has people dedicated to making everything perform well

22 May at 13:31 | Open on mastodon.social

4bz

@gamingonlinux @witewulf

And those 3rd party people will not regularly update. COUGH Aspire COUGH

They'd wait like a month to release their version on the CIV6 update, and it was always buggy. Game ran better through Proton

22 May at 13:38 | Open on freeradical.zone

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@4bz @witewulf yeah well Aspyr and Feral both basically quit Linux a while ago anyway, Feral still update their last port Total War Warhammer 3, but that's it from them both now - Proton just beats them

22 May at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social

Scherzog von Beast Oil

@gamingonlinux I love the subtle irony of some of the problematic anticheats not even working on Windows 11 with its system integrity protection features (which it aggressively nags you to enable if they aren't)

22 May at 13:38 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

daniel_ferradal_marquez

@gamingonlinux is there anything special that needs to be installed? Or Ubuntu desktop with steam installation will suffice?

22 May at 16:13 | Open on techhub.social