Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux, Latest Data Shows (tomshardware.com)
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ProtonDB tracks games across five categories. Platinum-rated games run perfectly without adjustment. Gold titles need minor tweaks. Silver games are playable but imperfect. Bronze exists between silver and borked. Borked games refuse to launch. The proportion of new releases earning platinum ratings has grown. The red and dark red zones have thinned. Some popular titles remain incompatible, however. Boiling Steam noted that other developers appear averse to non-Windows gamers.
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Checks for sports games.... (Score:3)
Nope.
Checks for henrai visual novels (Score:2)
All of them apparently?
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Can giant horny squid play sports?
Re:Checks for sports games.... (Score:4, Informative)
The problem is multiplayer. You also notice fortnite and call of duty missing.
Most of the big modern multiplayer games use kernel mode drivers to run their anti cheat software.
Naturally that doesn't work under Linux and very few of them can be bothered writing custom anti cheat.
Oddly enough marvel rivals does.
Re: stop fucking around (Score:2)
Tell us more mr edgelord please
Therapy session needed? (Score:1)
Can you point to the doll where Linux hurt you?
It is pretty amazing! (Score:5, Insightful)
I was quite surprised by how much games i can actually run and play without any issues at all on my computer running linux after migrating from windows last year
Re:It is pretty amazing! (Score:4, Interesting)
Nice, I ought to look into it. I have some Windows only software that I expect will run fine in WINE, but it's games that keep me from migrating my main rig to Linux.
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I was quite happy that all my games MMO/Coop/Solo, over unity, unreal, and bespoke engines are now able to be run. The last holdout Black Desert, which is one with anti-cheat, flipped to workable about 3 months ago as well.
So, happily 100% of my Steam Library is now running under Proton and I've not needed to boot into Windows - for any reason - since about August.
A lot of people likely think of their attempt last year and the failures, things have come a long way. For people with past bad experiences,
i'd review that number down (Score:4, Insightful)
I remember, when I played portal prelude on mac, some of the puzzles could not be solved. the gravity and friction were a wee bit high, or the speed and jump were a wee bit low, and some puzzles went the wrong way of the fence.
and this all was with an official port.
the fact that the game launches and plays (tweaking or not) in a translation environment (because wine is not an emulator) does not means that it plays correctly/100% faithfully .
having said that, i am glad wine/proton/linux gaming is improving. come 2028, when i ditch my intel mac, I may go to linux (instead of windows) for my gaming needs. so, keep it up y'all!!!
Re: i'd review that number down (Score:5, Interesting)
Ports are sometimes worse than translated version, because the port is subject to developer errors. Technically WINE's translation is too, but an error there would be more obvious as it would have widespread effects. I've actually switched to the Windows version on a few games that had native Linux releases because the Windows version ran better. And after 2 years gaming exclusively on Linux, I've encountered exactly 1 game (nuclear dawn) that didn't run flawlessly, usually out of the box. A few required command line settings, and getting HDR working can be a pain, but I rarely even check ProtonDB to make sure a game will work before I buy it. One caveat: I don't really play multiplayer games, those tend to be an exception due to draconian anti-cheat (but I wouldn't play with that anti-cheat anyways, so IMO it's a good thing those don't work on Linux).
Re: i'd review that number down (Score:2)
The ARM Macs are really impressive and even more impressive when you see how well Windows games can run in CrossOver. Unfortunately they are impacted by the same kernel level anti-cheats as Linux is, so for many multiplayer games they are a no-go.
tl;dr windows games on linux generally work well (Score:2)
Pretty much any game that doesn't use Windows kernel-level anti-cheat will run pretty well. In some cases, a game might run faster on Linux/Proton. In come cases, a game might run a bit slower on Linux/Proton.
Seems to be a misinterpretation of the data (Score:2)
Does prontodb contain ALL Windows games? I doubt it.
When are games added to protondb? Either when somebody knows that it is working on Linux, or when they with that it would be working.
So protondb is biased towards games that are working on Linux, and does not actually represent the Linux-playability of all Windows games.
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> Does prontodb contain ALL Windows games? I doubt it.
> When are games added to protondb? Either when somebody knows that it is working on Linux, or when they with that it would be working.
> So protondb is biased towards games that are working on Linux, and does not actually represent the Linux-playability of all Windows games.
ProtonDB is skewed towards games that are sold on Steam mostly because it's easy to get updates via the steam API. But for the odd game not on Steam, it can be added especially if it doesn'
The good games play fine... (Score:4, Insightful)
And the piles of shit that require kernel anti-cheat software don't. Win-win situation!
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> And the piles of shit that require kernel anti-cheat software don't. Win-win situation!
one person's trash is another person's treasure.
I do not play games that require anti-cheat, you do not play games that require anticheat...
but plenty of peple do play those games, and they will not stop doing so just for the priviledge of running linux as their os. the os is there to enable you to do what you want to do, and not interfere.
Mac has frameworks/API calls that allow anticheats to work without residing on the kernel. windows is moving in that direction too.
for the sake of linux gaming, hope tha
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> the os is there to enable you to do what you want to do, and not interfere.
Someone should explain that sometime to Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, and Canonical.
Too bad (Score:2)
That I don't have the time to play video games anymore.
Apartheid the Problem, Not the Solution (Score:1)
Can you execute arbitrary code with pixel-perfect koopa farming? Jailbreak the Flipper?
Using a very loose (Score:4, Informative)
...definition of "run".