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Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 99 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Unfortunately those pesky live service games that have the most player counts are disproportionately represented in that 10%.

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    • [–] 83 points 11 months ago

    Which I'm sure is much higher than windows games working on windows. Proton is awesome for old games.

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    [–] 73 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Switching to linux had me cold turkey league of legends im a healthier happier person now.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    the real cold turkey was Riot killing linux support last year. Seems like there wasn't enough linux players at the time for them to walk back that decision.

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    • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.

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    [–] 34 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    Good, but native would be better. At least they can't kill Linux the way they did os/2

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    IBM killed OS/2, because they hate end users. IBM has a long history of making great end user products (awesome keyboards, great laptops, still good software) only to sell them to the highest bidder. All IBM execs can see are penguins with suitcases full of dollar bills. OS/2? End users loved it, but it didn't run on mainframes. Killed. The Model M keyboard? End users loved it, but it was too durable, so it did not guarantee many sold units (because why would anyone buy a new Model M while the old one is still good?) -> rebranded as Unicomp and left to rot. (Typing this on a Unicomp PC122, but that's a different story.) Thinkpads? Ah well, those are expensive. And they aren't mainframes. Sold to the Chinese because ugh! End users! Lotus (SmartSuite, Notes)? Nice to have, but nope, too many end users. Ugh! End users!

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    [–] 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    100% of games worth playing work on Linux!

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, yeah? I have a super niche German adventure game from 2004 that I can't get up and running. But then it also won't work on at least Win7 and up (I tried). I can't even get that running on an XP virtual machine. This game has become my nemesis.

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    [–] 25 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    The only games I've struggled with are those with codecs that are not distributed with Proton. Installing GE-Proton solved it.

    99.99% of games on Linux unlocked.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    GE-proton what add to proton? Beside codecs

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    From their readme:

    Things it contains that Valve's Proton does not:

    • Additional media foundation patches for better video playback support
    • AMD FSR patches added directly to fullscreen hack that can be toggled with WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1
    • FSR Fake resolution patch details here
    • Nvidia CUDA support for PhysX and NVAPI
    • Raw input mouse support
    • 'protonfixes' system -- this is an automated system that applies per-game fixes (such as winetricks, envvars, EAC workarounds, overrides, etc).
    • Various upstream WINE patches backported
    • Various wine-staging patches applied as they become needed
    • NTSync enablement if the kernel supports it.
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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    protonfixes is huge, all of those weird little things you had to do like changing dll versions or installing .net are just stored in a script that is automatically run when it detects what game you're playing.

    Also, GE-proton updates more frequently and those updates include current versions of the underlying programs (dxvk, wine, etc) so any fixes that are made in these underlying systems will be available in GE-proton very quickly.

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    • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    For me its 100% of games, but sure, havent tried all games that exist..

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    • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

    Linux people responses will be like: “ive never seen that, works fine on my machine. i’m curious tho what version of Wine, Proton are you using? …. oh? what’s your desktop environment? … oh KDE…? ah must be a Bazzite thing? i’ve never seen that before on Mint with GNOME on my Intel Graphics Card”

    https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@SilbinaryWolf/115483449807384098

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    • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I finally switched to Linux just a few days ago when upgrading my laptop's SSD, and so far I have only opened minecraft to see how it runs - extremely smoothly, even though I could not figure out how to make use the Nvidia GPU. I'd say it runs noticeably better on Linux than it did on Windows.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    I think this is a higher percentage than Windows 11 if you include 16-bit ones from the 90s and early 2000s. (What was wrong with NTVDM64, anyway?)

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Wen vr?

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