Not every game will work, and most will with reduced performance. There's no reason to choose to game on linux outside of principles (I'm not judging), windows is still better
its not perfect. audio skipping is common, sometimes you get hard crashes that freeze your entire system. but windows gets worse each year and linux keeps getting better. yotdl imminent
it depends what games you want to play >MMORPGs
nah go back to windows >anything else except some moronic games that implement anti-cheat systems
they work fine. biggest issue is audio like said. I was able to play AC6, Hades 2, Black Mesa, Risk of Rain 2, and Death Stranding just fine. Valve games are heavily optimized for Linux and it's only Dota 2 that occasionally breaks but that's due to the troonydevs.
>nah go back to windows
all the ones i play work fine, which ones dont? >ESO >SWOTR >WOW >Warframe >Blade and Soul >BDO >tera >diablo IV
Vindictus was working for a while but i've heard they ban linux/VM users?
anyway as an avid MMO fan I can't think of one that doesn't work fine, I guess PSO2 doesn't but I haven't tried in a while
games where the primary profit model is mining and selling your info will tend to ban linux users because the spyware they use to steal data doesn't work properly (it gets sandboxed by wine)
think of a linux ban as self-reporting by malware devs
>Can we finally game on linux now?
If you buy your games from steam then yes, if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly. >t. 5 years linuxgay, installed windows to play vidya this year because nothing run properly.
>If you buy your games from steam then yes, if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly. >>t. 5 years linuxgay, installed windows to play vidya this year because nothing run properly.
sounds like an IQ issue
>sounds like an IQ issue
yeah, just download software made for another OS and spend your days tinkering it to play it on another OS with worse performance. You are so clever.
Playing vidya shouldn't require omegabrain though.
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>If you buy your games from steam then yes, if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly. >>t. 5 years linuxgay, installed windows to play vidya this year because nothing run properly.
sounds like an IQ issue
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Can we finally game on linux now? How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
Some titles work perfectly or sometimes even better than on windows. Some don't work at all. 'Gold' on proton can mean anything from 5fps to perfect. Platinum usually indicates playability.
>Can we finally game on linux now?
yes >How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
carx drift online and beamNG work fine
you might need to decrease lightning quality in beamNG from, say, high to medium, but that's about it
i tried ultrakill, overdrift festival and super hot, worked fine
>if you get them elsewhere
why would anyone do that? even niche games like flat out 2 are on steam
>if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly.
I had no problems running Windows games from GOG, can't speak for any other storefronts because I wasn't using them even before I made the switch.
just add them as non-steam games into the steam client and use proton??? are you moronic???
i've been usinf steam as my defacto wine manager for years now, any windows apps i need i just run through steam
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Can we finally game on linux now? How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
i've been gaming on arch for a few years now, these days issues are very rare and mostly it's better performance. one if my mates has nearly the exact same PC as me but in windows, and he constantly complains about low FPS or stuttering in games we play, which I do not experience.
I think linux, arch specifically, is the best OS for gaming right now unless you specifically want to play CoD, valorant or fortnite
90% of my steam library runs OOB, 8% of it needs a single argument (eg %gamemoderun%) and the other 2% are server-side anti-linux messaures so theres nothing yiu can do about it
ProtonDB is just a database (DB) tallying up how well Steam games run on the Steam Deck, so you can look up any particular Steam game you're interested in playing with your Deck and see what people say
Of course, since the Steam Deck runs on a Linux distro, the results in that page are generally transferable to other distros
>How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
That depends on the game, some games will incur a heavy performance hit, other games will run even better than they do on Windows
My experience has been mostly positive, but I'm the kind of person that doesn't bother with the latest AAA games
I hate how finicky wine is >run certain game with wine >next version it may be broken >the version after that introduces obscure regression mid game
so you end up having to assign a certain wine version + patches to certain games, instead of just running the latest wine, which forces you to write your own scripts or use crapware like lutris or b*ttles
Unless the devs refuse to enable Linux support on their anti-cheat, everything works great.
Can expect 10% less FPS in some game but other games have better performances.
Can even run cracked games in Lutris
works fine for me and everything i play atleast. >steam for steam >heroic launcher for gog, epic and pirated vidya >same emulators as on windows
only game i cant play is fortnite since i have friends who like to frick around in no-build but i own a ps5 for that kinda shit.
I fully switched to Linux over a year ago.
everything just works for me.
Games perform roughly the same, some perform ridiculously better like GTA IV.
Things have changed a lot. I still remember a time on which wine was useless, that is not the case anymore.
how come I can post from a windows machine but a linux machine on the same network is getting range blocked, makes no damn sense
Not every game will work, and most will with reduced performance. There's no reason to choose to game on linux outside of principles (I'm not judging), windows is still better
its not perfect. audio skipping is common, sometimes you get hard crashes that freeze your entire system. but windows gets worse each year and linux keeps getting better. yotdl imminent
it depends what games you want to play
>MMORPGs
nah go back to windows
>anything else except some moronic games that implement anti-cheat systems
they work fine. biggest issue is audio like said. I was able to play AC6, Hades 2, Black Mesa, Risk of Rain 2, and Death Stranding just fine. Valve games are heavily optimized for Linux and it's only Dota 2 that occasionally breaks but that's due to the troonydevs.
Dota barely works on windows either so it's all good. Icefrog really needs to put out something else than new skins and battlepasses
>nah go back to windows
all the ones i play work fine, which ones dont?
>ESO
>SWOTR
>WOW
>Warframe
>Blade and Soul
>BDO
>tera
>diablo IV
Vindictus was working for a while but i've heard they ban linux/VM users?
anyway as an avid MMO fan I can't think of one that doesn't work fine, I guess PSO2 doesn't but I haven't tried in a while
games where the primary profit model is mining and selling your info will tend to ban linux users because the spyware they use to steal data doesn't work properly (it gets sandboxed by wine)
think of a linux ban as self-reporting by malware devs
Every game works unless it has an anticheat that actively blocks linux players because israelitesoft pays them to
Haven't had problems for 90% of the games I've tried. Some will require tweaking, some will refuse to even run because
>Can we finally game on linux now?
If you buy your games from steam then yes, if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly.
>t. 5 years linuxgay, installed windows to play vidya this year because nothing run properly.
>If you buy your games from steam then yes, if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly.
>>t. 5 years linuxgay, installed windows to play vidya this year because nothing run properly.
sounds like an IQ issue
>sounds like an IQ issue
yeah, just download software made for another OS and spend your days tinkering it to play it on another OS with worse performance. You are so clever.
Playing vidya shouldn't require omegabrain though.
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Some titles work perfectly or sometimes even better than on windows. Some don't work at all. 'Gold' on proton can mean anything from 5fps to perfect. Platinum usually indicates playability.
>Can we finally game on linux now?
yes
>How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
carx drift online and beamNG work fine
you might need to decrease lightning quality in beamNG from, say, high to medium, but that's about it
i tried ultrakill, overdrift festival and super hot, worked fine
>if you get them elsewhere
why would anyone do that? even niche games like flat out 2 are on steam
>why would anyone do that?
Because I never buy games.
>if you get them elsewhere you will suffer and nothing will run properly.
I had no problems running Windows games from GOG, can't speak for any other storefronts because I wasn't using them even before I made the switch.
just add them as non-steam games into the steam client and use proton??? are you moronic???
i've been usinf steam as my defacto wine manager for years now, any windows apps i need i just run through steam
i've been gaming on arch for a few years now, these days issues are very rare and mostly it's better performance. one if my mates has nearly the exact same PC as me but in windows, and he constantly complains about low FPS or stuttering in games we play, which I do not experience.
I think linux, arch specifically, is the best OS for gaming right now unless you specifically want to play CoD, valorant or fortnite
90% of my steam library runs OOB, 8% of it needs a single argument (eg %gamemoderun%) and the other 2% are server-side anti-linux messaures so theres nothing yiu can do about it
ProtonDB is just a database (DB) tallying up how well Steam games run on the Steam Deck, so you can look up any particular Steam game you're interested in playing with your Deck and see what people say
Of course, since the Steam Deck runs on a Linux distro, the results in that page are generally transferable to other distros
>How much efficiency will I lose for having to translate windows code to linux?
That depends on the game, some games will incur a heavy performance hit, other games will run even better than they do on Windows
My experience has been mostly positive, but I'm the kind of person that doesn't bother with the latest AAA games
I hate how finicky wine is
>run certain game with wine
>next version it may be broken
>the version after that introduces obscure regression mid game
so you end up having to assign a certain wine version + patches to certain games, instead of just running the latest wine, which forces you to write your own scripts or use crapware like lutris or b*ttles
Unless the devs refuse to enable Linux support on their anti-cheat, everything works great.
Can expect 10% less FPS in some game but other games have better performances.
Can even run cracked games in Lutris
I'd like them to eventually open it up to more games from gog at least. I've been pretty lucky so far but it's still a bit of a gamble.
works fine for me and everything i play atleast.
>steam for steam
>heroic launcher for gog, epic and pirated vidya
>same emulators as on windows
only game i cant play is fortnite since i have friends who like to frick around in no-build but i own a ps5 for that kinda shit.