Linux help

[Gemstock]

If I switched to Linux would all steam games still download and play without a problem?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

No, only the ones that survive after filtering by OS compatibility and choosing Linux.

Some others may work with Wine, but I think the current stable version won't do much past DirectX 9, if at all.

[DimasRMDO]

49 minutes ago, Gemstock said:

If I switched to Linux would all steam games still download and play without a problem?

Like @SpaceGhostC2C said.

If you want to switch to Linux and still be able to game with no issues then you can just dual boot it with your Windows.

[Nowak]

Yeah, what this post says.

28 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

No, only the ones that survive after filtering by OS compatibility and choosing Linux.

Some others may work with Wine, but I think the current stable version won't do much past DirectX 9, if at all.

Not every game is on Linux and while there's WINE, it's not great and you'd be better off dual-booting Windows for those games.

[wasab]

1 hour ago, Gemstock said:

If I switched to Linux would all steam games still download and play without a problem?

Say good bye to league of legends and GTA V if you switched.

If you are playing Minecraft, you will be fine. Games like these run faster on Linux than in Windows. 

If you want to know, turn on your filter to steam OS and Linux. That should show you what games you can play in your library on Linux. 

 

BTW, anyone play company of heroes 2? I play that game with Mac players all the time. Occasionally I stumble upon other Linux players as well. Multiplayer is not compatible with Windows version for some reason.

[jde3]

5 hours ago, wasab said:

Say good bye to league of legends and GTA V if you switched.

Both run fine in Wine. I mean.. thats not great.. and Wine is kind of ghetto but they work well enough not to notice. I would imagine the reason riot probably doesn't make a Linux port by this point is because it runs so well in Wine.

 

If you want to be religious about it and support Linux game development then Wine or Dual Boot or PCIe Passthrough are not options because that still leads to games being made on Windows. Buy steam native games on Linux because that really supports change. Buy every port Feral makes that looks half good. Paradox is another big Linux publisher. Vulkan API is also a good thing to support because it's not DirectX.

 

If you want to be part of the solution then you might have to suffer some sacrifices.. There might not be that one game you want but I think you'll have a hard time getting bored on Linux at this point..

[wasab]

7 hours ago, jde3 said:

Both run fine in Wine. I mean.. thats not great.. and Wine is kind of ghetto but they work well enough not to notice. I would imagine the reason riot probably doesn't make a Linux port by this point is because it runs so well in Wine.

 

If you want to be religious about it and support Linux game development then Wine or Dual Boot or PCIe Passthrough are not options because that still leads to games being made on Windows. Buy steam native games on Linux because that really supports change. Buy every port Feral makes that looks half good. Paradox is another big Linux publisher. Vulkan API is also a good thing to support because it's not DirectX.

 

If you want to be part of the solution then you might have to suffer some sacrifices.. There might not be that one game you want but I think you'll have a hard time getting bored on Linux at this point..

Ah no, GTA V doesn't run on WINE and LoL runs only for sometimes until a new patch breaks everything.

 

I used to play Star trek online through WINE(installed with playonlinux script) runs like a charm until cryptic released a patch that broke everything. For games that are constantly updated like these, WINE isn't an ideal solution. 

 

I still don't know how you get GTA V running on Wine

[jde3]

Lol lots of tuning. It doesn't run great but it's playable. League runs flawless pretty much or did a few years back, not sure now. I'm pretty good at tuning them.. I should give a crack at Fallout or something.. If you can figure out the right dll's to load from windows most stuff works, at least to some level. Wine's directx ability has improved as well with various patches now.

[wasab]

2 hours ago, jde3 said:

Lol lots of tuning. It doesn't run great but it's playable. League runs flawless pretty much or did a few years back, not sure now. I'm pretty good at tuning them.. I should give a crack at Fallout or something.. If you can figure out the right dll's to load from windows most stuff works, at least to some level. Wine's directx ability has improved as well with various patches now.

Are you able to write me a playonlinux install script for GTA V? If not, mind telling me what settings and compenents you used on wine and the wine version? 

[jde3]

3 hours ago, wasab said:

Are you able to write me a playonlinux install script for GTA V? If not, mind telling me what settings and compenents you used on wine and the wine version? 

mmm it was over a year ago. It was a Gentoo system with I think staging patches.. best I can do for you I could probably try again but that game is so f'ing big..

 

However you make a pretty good point, I didn't know I could write playonlinux scripts.. that would be very valuable to a lot of people I'd imagine.. Maybe I should write some.. I've gotten some rare gems to work over the years like FFXIV and Blade and Soul. (least before they busted them with anti-cheat programs) I still think Wine is probably the wrong way to go about it though.

[g el]

19 hours ago, jde3 said:

mmm it was over a year ago. It was a Gentoo system with I think staging patches.. best I can do for you I could probably try again but that game is so f'ing big..

 

However you make a pretty good point, I didn't know I could write playonlinux scripts.. that would be very valuable to a lot of people I'd imagine.. Maybe I should write some.. I've gotten some rare gems to work over the years like FFXIV and Blade and Soul. (least before they busted them with anti-cheat programs) I still think Wine is probably the wrong way to go about it though.

If not pol consider lutris as well for scripts.. Also think of contributing to the wine app dB if you got something running people often manage to reproduce it from small hints you give there 

[jde3]

6 hours ago, g el said:

If not pol consider lutris as well for scripts.. Also think of contributing to the wine app dB if you got something running people often manage to reproduce it from small hints you give there 

I have in the past. It's just as you get older you tend to game less and my first gaming console was a pong console pre-atari to give you an indication. I like games (I basically grew up in video arcades) and I try to keep current but...