#LinuxGaming "poll"
Which steam games have you played on Linux that work as well as on Windows (and which ones didn't)?
For example, anyone playing #Skyrim? Is it working well for you? I tried it (the steam version) and it was way too slow with just normal (or even lower) graphical settings.
#Subnautica is working fine. #DyingLight seemed OK. #TombRaider4 works well (old, I know). #Left4Dead2 is fine but I haven't tested the multiplayer mode.
Trying to convince more friends to join the Linux wagon, but they like their games..
Edit: thanks to those who answered referring to protondb.com - that seems very useful to check game compatibility!
#Linux #LinuxGaming #ZorinOS #Ubuntu #Steam
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Benjamin McIntyre
in reply to El Duvelle • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Benjamin McIntyre • • •Also can I ask which distribution you are using?
Benjamin McIntyre
in reply to El Duvelle • • •RN I'm on NixOS, though I've ran Zorin, Mint, Fedora, and Arch where I had just of good as an experience. I don't really play any RPGs mostly indie titles, my fsvourotes lately have been:
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Hades
- Hollow Knight
Used to play overwatch 2, which ran great. If you are looking for a good list check out ProtonDB: protondb.com/ it lets you look up any game to see how well it runs on steam deck &or Linux as well as loading up your personal library to see what does and doesn't run.
crabsoft
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Just incase you're not aware, there's a good website for this. protondb.com/app/553850
Most of the big RPGs work fine. Competitive FPS may implement anti-cheat that simply prevents linux players from playing - on purpose - because they hate us.
Not really steam games, but I play Vintage Story and Guild Wars 2 right now.
Edit : I have played a ton of Skyrim, with mods, and it was totally fine.
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El Duvelle
in reply to crabsoft • • •@crabsoft oh, this website is great, thank you!
It's also good to know for Skyrim. Did you have to do any tweaks? Are you using one of the proton "plugins", if so, which one? One of my friends is particularly interested in the skyrim mods, but I don't know which ones specidically - any chance you could list the ones you're using?
crabsoft
in reply to El Duvelle • • •I don't use a ton. It looks like I'm on Special Edition, using Proton 9.0-4. The only struggle I remember having was getting the reqtifier running for Requiem, but I believe that's been solved. Everything was installed through ModOrganizer2.
Requiem
Alternate Start
Better Fast Travel
Paper World Map
Auto Input Switch
Take Notes
Campsite
Dovahkiin Relaxes Too
Skyrim Souls (menus don’t pause)
Simplest Horses
El Duvelle
in reply to crabsoft • • •dirk dierickx
in reply to El Duvelle • • •cerement
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Path of Exile 1 (haven’t tried Path of Exile 2 yet)
(n=1) I had better performance with Flatpak Steam than with Debian native Steam 🤷 (there really shouldn’t be any significant difference between the two)
TheLinuxPleb
in reply to El Duvelle • • •In my Mastodon posts i have shit ton of games that worked just fine.
Using Manjaro and playing RE8 now and that works fine. With Metro Exodus i had to disable Physx and stuff for it to work without crashing, but i think that is an issue on Windows as well. Found answer from PCGamingWiki.
Don't really have a comparison as i have been without Windows for maybe 10y now.
Robocop Rogue City had massive stutter in the final boss, but it sorted itself out. That was with my old rig.
Chris 👾
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in reply to Chris 👾 • • •Chris 👾
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Heroic Games Launcher
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El Duvelle
in reply to Chris 👾 • • •GrenewerearE
in reply to El Duvelle • • •(And I have played multiplayer in Left 4 Dead 2 and it works fine)
El Duvelle
in reply to GrenewerearE • • •dark_stang
in reply to El Duvelle • • •I can't remember the last time I encountered a game that didn't work as well on Linux as it did on windows, if not better.
I know there are eSports titles that have rootkit level anticheat, but I don't want rootkits on my system. And I don't have Nvidia GPUs in anything, but I've heard those can be challenging sometimes.
I have played Skyrim a lot on Linux and the steam deck without issues.
El Duvelle
in reply to dark_stang • • •Jumbles
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Been gaming on Linux for probably 15+ years and it's been great, Nvidia GPU laptop (Ubuntu & Mint) and Steam Deck, all Steam, GOG, Itch.
Protondb is a great resource (Steam Deck has a plugin too). The only issues I'd expect users would face these days is with any kind of kernel level anti-cheat.
In terms of RPGs I love and recommend:
Divinity Original Sin 1&2
Enderal
Witcher games
BG3
Pillars Of Eternity 1&2
Solasta
Greedfall
Shadowrum games
Mass Effects etc
...I'll stop there!
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Albert Cardona
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El Duvelle
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •Albert Cardona
in reply to El Duvelle • • •In Ubuntu there's the "Additional drivers" built-in app that discovers which possible binary proprietary drivers could be installed in the computer, and lets you do that with one click. For NVidia drivers, suggests one or two versions known to work, so that would be the first step. The "nvidia-settings" likely gets installed alongside the driver itself, can't recall now (I don't have a laptop with an NVidia card presently).
A further step is to cross-check your graphics card model with the linux driver page in the nvidia website, and see whether there's an even newer driver. Warning, that may end up leaving you without a working desktop; the solution is to uninstall the driver from a TTY via e.g., control+alt+F3 and a command line directive to remove the offending driver. Would then reboot into the noveau driver, and then from there install the recommended one from "Additional drivers".
minternational
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •Raptor
in reply to El Duvelle • • •I wouldn't even know where to start, I have 1473 games in my library that work fine on linux (I've been 100% linux since the early 2000's)
A few screenshots of latest released/most played, and most popular.
I used to moderate a bunch of games on wine appdb back in the day but in the past 5 years or so getting games working on linux has become boring, I rarely get to submit patches anymore because I buy games on steam and even if they're windows only they just work.
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Madic
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