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Devine Lu Linvega

Someone not too long ago shared a way to play Age Of Empires 2 on linux without too much fussing around. Does anyone still have that link?

edit: got it aoe2.arkanosis.net/linux/

19 January at 21:31 | Open on merveilles.town
12 comments
timthelion
timthelion

@neauoire I learned to code because my Dad confiscated that game and I thought I could go and program it myself 🤣😅

19 January at 21:36 | Open on emacs.ch
flaeky pancako

@neauoire not sure if you have steam installed but proton handles most of this stuff :
protondb.com/app/813780
in this case you just have it installed in steam and choose proton to run it, pretty easy..

19 January at 21:38 | Open on prsm.space
TROG

@neauoire thanks for this! I've been playing 0 AD on Mac OS on and off for the past few years.

play0ad.com/

19 January at 21:55 | Open on esoteric.party
charlie

@neauoire oh shit aoe2 might be the only reason I have windows installed rn

wait a minute

20 January at 0:31 | Open on merveilles.town
Carsten

@neauoire dunno if merveilles folks can see this, but, in case, thank you!!

20 January at 0:51 | Open on mastodon.world
Josh Wold
Devine Lu Linvega

No dice.

Game released in 1999, repackaged to require gigabytes of shit to run it on linux via something called Proton. Would be almost playable if it wasn't for the lag, but leaks memory like no tomorrow, have to close and restart it every few minutes.

Also, what the fuck are we doing, I mean- wow.

20 January at 4:30 | Open on merveilles.town
Orpheus

@neauoire Proton is Steams custom version of Wine so mostly Wine + patches they haven't gotten upstream yet. Some variant of that is almost certainly the best way of playing AoE2 right now

20 January at 6:48 | Open on raru.re
Naorn

@neauoire yeah it is not because of proton it became huge but because it has more content and higher quality texture. It is the same issue on windows too. The size of modern game is a big issue indeed.

20 January at 9:23 | Open on merveilles.town
⛧ esoterik ⛧

@neauoire ugh, i bet there is a way to get the original 1999 version running in wine but will probably be at least a bit annoying

20 January at 4:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:

@neauoire want to play AoE2 today?
Play @play0ad

✅ Modern look
✅ Runs on Linux, Mac & Windows
✅ Opensource

20 January at 8:54 | Open on mastodon.skorpil.cz
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