Proton, Valve's rumoured "Linux compatibility" tool has been released into the Steam client!

[Humbug]

23 hours ago, pipnina said:

Amazing! I hope it gets whitelisted soon so I can get a decent racing game! I've been really disappointed by recent showings (I.e. GT Sport)

 

Did you try it with a controller?

Not yet dude, just wanted to see if it ran.

 

There are some bugs, it gives a popup saying it's having trouble saving, and also I am having trouble exiting the game. But those should be stuff that can be sorted out...

 

I just choose project cars as a untested game to try out because it's very graphically complex and has lots of effects including gameworks stuff so I am impressed it worked without graphical glitches. The rest are things that can be more easily fixed.

 

 

[Sniperfox47]

Anybody manage to get Ashes of the Benchmark to run? I get a crash after it loads assets on DX11 whether I use DXVK or WineD3D, and doesn't even load for me with -Vulkan.

[Humbug]

 

[Linus_torvalds]

On 8/23/2018 at 5:34 AM, Ithanul said:

Can we seriously keep to the topic of Steam Play and what games people so far getting to work?

 

Any who, tested a few more games.  My list so far:

Playable and works:

• Bejeweled 3
• AudioSurf
• Dishonored

Runs, but low frame rate:

• Mirror’s Edge

Starts, but very, very slow to run:

• Droplitz

Don’t start:

• Waves
• Lightfish

Starts, but black screen:

• Divide by Sheep

Starts, but closes out:

• Darksiders II

 

Getting late here now, so will test a bit more tomorrow afternoon after work.

Please report here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcZZQ4HL_Ol969UbXJmFG8TzOHNnHoj8Q1f8DIFe8-8/htmlview?sle=true#

[ryao]

On 8/23/2018 at 8:55 AM, ltguy said:

Same thing happens on my system. Going to distro hop till I find one that works i guess.

Try Gentoo. It works for me.

[ltguy]

15 hours ago, ryao said:

Try Gentoo. It works for me.

Even if Gentoo was the only distro steam would work on... still no.

[Stefan Payne]

I did some testing as well:

a) the good old Copy shit + VCF File for the game doesn't seem to work like it would in a real Windows

b) a random, ancient Square Remake/rerelease (Final Fantasy 3) seemed to work more or less.

 

I'm on the latest Ubuntu right now with the AMDGPU-PRO drivers...

[Stefan Payne]

I am now on Ubuntu 18.04 latest patches + AMDGPU-PRO

For the Games that won't start:

Enslaved

Crysis

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Akiba's Trip

Blades of Time

Bladestorm: Nightmare

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends

Legend of Korra

One Piece Pirate Warrior 3

Onechanbara Z2: Chaos

Samurai Warriors 4-II

Way of the Samurai 4

Agarest Generation of War

Atelier Sophie 

Fairy Fencer F

Hyperdevotion Noir

Neptunia Rebirth 1-3

Neptunia U

Megadimension Neptunia 7

Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune

Nights of Azure

Toukiden Kiwami

Valkyria Chronicles

Final Fantasy 4, 7, 8, 9, X/X-2 Remaster, 13-2

Age of Empires II HD Edition

Age of Empires 3

Age of Mythology Extended Edition

BC Kings

 

 

Even though they are listed as compatible:
Nier: Automata 

The Last Remnant

 

Games that seem to work:
Final Fantasy 3

Star Wars Star Fighter (FMV don't seem to work though)

 

 

Have Linux Version:
Company of Heroes 2

Rise of Tomb Raider

Rogue Legacy

[Sniperfox47]

1 minute ago, Stefan Payne said:

I am now on Ubuntu 18.04 latest patches + AMDGPU-PRO

For the Games that won't start:

Enslaved

Crysis

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Akiba's Trip

Blades of Time

Bladestorm: Nightmare

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends

Legend of Korra

One Piece Pirate Warrior 3

Onechanbara Z2: Chaos

Samurai Warriors 4-II

Way of the Samurai 4

Agarest Generation of War

Atelier Sophie 

Fairy Fencer F

Hyperdevotion Noir

Neptunia Rebirth 1-3

Neptunia U

Megadimension Neptunia 7

Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune

Nights of Azure

Toukiden Kiwami

Valkyria Chronicles

Final Fantasy 4, 7, 8, 9, X/X-2 Remaster, 13-2

Age of Empires II HD Edition

Age of Empires 3

Age of Mythology Extended Edition

BC Kings

 

 

Even though they are listed as compatible:
Nier: Automata 

The Last Remnant

 

Games that seem to work:
Final Fantasy 3

Star Wars Star Fighter (FMV don't seem to work though)

 

 

Have Linux Version:
Company of Heroes 2

Rise of Tomb Raider

Rogue Legacy

That definitely seems like you don't have something set up properly, whether it's Vulkan or python or whatever. Many of those are definitely 100% confirmed working on that Distro/Driver combo.

[Stefan Payne]

29 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

That definitely seems like you don't have something set up properly, whether it's Vulkan or python or whatever. Many of those are definitely 100% confirmed working on that Distro/Driver combo.

OK, looking into it and try again.

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, Stefan Payne said:

Megadimension Neptunia 7

Megadimension Neptunia V(ictory) 2. Not 7.

[linkboy]

9 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

I am now on Ubuntu 18.04 latest patches + AMDGPU-PRO

For the Games that won't start:

Enslaved

Crysis

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Akiba's Trip

Blades of Time

Bladestorm: Nightmare

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends

Legend of Korra

One Piece Pirate Warrior 3

Onechanbara Z2: Chaos

Samurai Warriors 4-II

Way of the Samurai 4

Agarest Generation of War

Atelier Sophie 

Fairy Fencer F

Hyperdevotion Noir

Neptunia Rebirth 1-3

Neptunia U

Megadimension Neptunia 7

Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune

Nights of Azure

Toukiden Kiwami

Valkyria Chronicles

Final Fantasy 4, 7, 8, 9, X/X-2 Remaster, 13-2

Age of Empires II HD Edition

Age of Empires 3

Age of Mythology Extended Edition

BC Kings

 

 

Even though they are listed as compatible:
Nier: Automata 

The Last Remnant

 

Games that seem to work:
Final Fantasy 3

Star Wars Star Fighter (FMV don't seem to work though)

 

 

Have Linux Version:
Company of Heroes 2

Rise of Tomb Raider

Rogue Legacy

 

Final Fantasy 7 and 8 run great on my setup (HP Elitebook 8770w with an AMD Firepro GPU running Ubuntu Budgie 18.04). The only games I've having issues with are the Castlevania games and Grandia II

[Ithanul]

On 8/25/2018 at 2:56 AM, mate_mate91 said:

Please report here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcZZQ4HL_Ol969UbXJmFG8TzOHNnHoj8Q1f8DIFe8-8/htmlview?sle=true#

All added.  Did not get around to testing more.  But got a three day weekend this week, so should be able to test a few more then.

May do some test over on my Xeon setup with the GTX1070 Hybrid to see some more performance variables (that one runs on Ubuntu 18.04 with default kernel).  That should have more power to push on my 1440p monitor.

 

May haps they need to do a resolution section to the spreed sheet?

[Humbug]

12 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

I am now on Ubuntu 18.04 latest patches + AMDGPU-PRO

why amdgpu pro?

[Stefan Payne]

7 hours ago, linkboy said:

 

Final Fantasy 7 and 8 run great on my setup (HP Elitebook 8770w with an AMD Firepro GPU running Ubuntu Budgie 18.04). The only games I've having issues with are the Castlevania games and Grandia II

Hm, strange.

I have a fresh Installation of Ubuntu 18.04 (minimal), followed the Steps that Valve mentioned.

Python 2.7 and 3.6 are installed.

Vulkan is installed.

FFMPEG is installed

 

Anything I missed?

 

3 hours ago, Humbug said:

why amdgpu pro?

because better performance in some instances....

And even with the Normal Open Source Driver it doesn't work...

 

Tried 

[Sniperfox47]

2 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Hm, strange.

I have a fresh Installation of Ubuntu 18.04 (minimal), followed the Steps that Valve mentioned.

Python 2.7 and 3.6 are installed.

Vulkan is installed.

FFMPEG is installed

 

Anything I missed?

 

because better performance in some instances....

And even with the Normal Open Source Driver it doesn't work...

 

Tried 

Last thing I can check is whether your steam library is on an NTFS partition? Currently unsupported but they're working on an automated tool to fix permission issues on NTFS. If that's not it, I have no idea. Sorry you're having issues.

 

If you want to help contributing and fixing the issues you're having for yourself and others it may be worth enabling debugging logs (go to your steamapps directory, go to the proton folder, rename "user_settings.sample.py" to "user_settings.py" and then you'll find the logs for each game you launch in your home directory. I'd be happy to help you figure it out.

 

If not then you may want to hold off for now and try it again when it hits stable, by which time they should have a lot of these driver and UX niggles worked out.

[Stefan Payne]

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

Last thing I can check is whether your steam library is on an NTFS partition?

No, exFAT.

NTFS don't work because not writable to. (was the first thing I tried ;))

 

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

If you want to help contributing and fixing the issues you're having for yourself and others it may be worth enabling debugging logs (go to your steamapps directory, go to the proton folder, rename "user_settings.sample.py" to "user_settings.py" and then you'll find the logs for each game you launch in your home directory. I'd be happy to help you figure it out.

Thanks, I'll try that.

 

 

[Humbug]

3 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

because better performance in some instances....

And even with the Normal Open Source Driver it doesn't work...

The amdgpu pro vulkan performance is good. But the openGL performance is really slow. For gaming better stick to the MESA drivers for all around reliability and performance (desktop stability/openGL/Vulkan). That's what game devs and Valve mostly test against these days...

[Sniperfox47]

3 hours ago, Humbug said:

The amdgpu pro vulkan performance is good. But the openGL performance is really slow. For gaming better stick to the MESA drivers for all around reliability and performance (desktop stability/openGL/Vulkan). That's what game devs and Valve mostly test against these days...

I mean it *really* shouldn't matter. The kernel side of the two is both exactly the same, and on the implimentation side, AMDGPU-Pro supports all of the features that AMDGPU does.

 

Performance may be more compute oriented for -Pro but if anything compatibility should be better due to features like OpenGL compatibility profiles and fully compliant (i.e. certified) Vulkan.

 

And most modern games you'd be running through Proton right now use Vulkan, whether natively or via DXVK.

[Stefan Payne]

New Version of Proton.

And with 3.7-5 Beta there are things actually working.

For example Neptunia U Action Unleashed is kinda working. It "just" misses the Character and enemy models.

[Domo]

On 8/24/2018 at 10:43 PM, Sniperfox47 said:

10 bit colour? Psh. TempleOS had divine inspiration! It's so far ahead of modern OSes that it has *16-bit* colour. And besides the human soul can't see higher than 640x480 Resolution anyways.

 

It's a bug that causes the mouse to "stick" when moved in slower motions. Fast motions tend to work properly but because of the faster polling rate some slower mouse motions get mistakenly dropped. Some mice still have the controller set to 1000hz even if you drop the polling rate and it affects those too.

 

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/147

I mean 10bit per color or 30bits. Maybe 48 bits would be fine ( 16bit luts ) since some monitors support it. The TempleOS kernal appears to be way faster than windows.