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ProtonDB, the rather nice ratings website where you can go and give your thoughts on games played through Steam Play put out another data dump, here's a look inside. This is following on from our first peek into it last month.

The latest data dump is available here, which shows a total of 32,716 reports although that does include around 30 reports from March too. A very active system, good to see!

Like last time, here's how many reports have been going in overall:

What's especially interesting to see, is that even with a new Proton beta 3.16-7 which was released mid-February we're still seeing less reports coming in overall. However, the drop is nowhere near as drastic as between December and January.

As seen there, February had 2,921 total reports and here's a breakdown of what ratings we saw coming in:

Onto the games that people have been reporting recently, here's what ended up with the most submitted ratings:

For the second month running both Grand Theft Auto V and The Witcher 3 take the top two spots for the most reports which isn't surprising considering how popular they are amongst gamers overall.

Sticking with actual games for a moment, here's something we didn't look at last month. A peek into what games were getting the most Platinum reports. As in, titles that should be "click and play" without needing anything done:

The interesting one there is of course Metro Exodus, practically all of the reports on it give it a Platinum rating. Crazy really, another massive AAA game working from day-1 on Linux thanks to Steam Play. When we see things like this, it really does help to show that Linux gaming really can be awesome.

Onto operating systems, here's a look at the different Linux distributions being used:

A note about "Other": lots of the reports don't include a specific distribution name. Where we're unable to properly identify them, we bundle them together. This can be caused by multiple things, so hopefully in future ProtonDB can make this clearer in their data dumps.

As for what GPU vendor is most popular, no guessing needed here as it continues to be ridiculously clear:

And again the same with the CPU vendor:

Through these reports, it seems most people have been sticking to Proton 3.16-6 with it having 1,086 submissions and the newer Proton 3.16-7 beta close behind at 958 reports.

It's interesting to see that a lot of it lines up reasonably well with our own user-given statistics, which you can find here. Looking at our own stats, from 550 people only 35 have said they won't be using Steam Play.

Hopefully some of you find this little peek interesting.

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Wendigo Mar 4, 2019
The drop in new ratings is not a surprise to me. When a game already has lots of ratings why bother to add another one if nothing has changed?
Beamboom Mar 4, 2019
It really stings me that Metro Exodus doesn't come to Linux, considering the earlier games did.
It bothers me more than it should, but I felt that at least we had those guys on our side. The Metro games are really great too, it's far, faaar too far between games of that level on Linux.
Please order your first "Reports over Time" graph by date rather than by count. The way it is sorted right now renders it really hard to read.

Thanks for doing the analysis. I am impressed by the high level of activity.
Liam Dawe Mar 5, 2019
Quoting: no_information_herePlease order your first "Reports over Time" graph by date rather than by count. The way it is sorted right now renders it really hard to read.

Thanks for doing the analysis. I am impressed by the high level of activity.
It is ordered by date.

Edit: oh hell you're right. Not sure how that got mixed up, will fix tomorrow! Sorry about that.

Edit #2: Fixed, won't be an issue in future the code making the chart was fixed..


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 5 March 2019 at 11:20 am UTC
Shmerl Mar 5, 2019
QuoteAs for what GPU vendor is most popular, no guessing needed here as it continues to be ridiculously clear:

Overall trend is quite telling though. Nvidia usage on Linux is falling. Would be interesting to see the trend from more sources.


Last edited by Shmerl on 5 March 2019 at 1:45 am UTC
TheRiddick Mar 5, 2019
Its surprising that AMD has as many people using their GPU's as they do. I guess places have seen significant price drops to the RX580 cards etc which helps allot.

Quoting: Dunc
Quoting: Duke TakeshiI find it weird antergos is counted separately. Imho, it's just a GUI installer for arch xD.
Try saying that on the Arch forums. :D

Yeah I did that once, got my head bitten off!


Last edited by TheRiddick on 5 March 2019 at 3:46 am UTC
mylka Mar 5, 2019
metro doesnt really surprise me, because it uses an advanced engine of metro1+2

just cause 4, hitman 2, shadow of the tomb raider, Mutant Year Zero, etc

i wish it would be possible to sort protondb by release date, or top sellers
Phlebiac Mar 5, 2019
Quoting: GuestThe problem with the Distro identification is that you'll need to pasted you're Steam Systeminfo and sometimes it just sais "Linux 4.x" on various distributions.
openSUSE did as well (now it reports themselves properly as openSUSE) not sure if this was caused by the Distro or by Steam.

Steam uses LSB to determine the distro, and falls back if that's not installed. On Fedora, "sudo dnf install redhat-lsb-core" was enough to get it showing correctly. The "redhat-lsb" package pulls in tons of other dependencies, including qt3, which is why I had removed it previously...
sub Mar 5, 2019
How does DOOM (2016) fit here?

id Tech 6 supports OpenGL and Vulkan.

So how does Proton (which uses DXVK, right?) come into play?


Btw, does WINE support Vulkan by now?
sub Mar 5, 2019
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: subHow does DOOM (2016) fit here?

id Tech 6 supports OpenGL and Vulkan.

So how does Proton (which uses DXVK, right?) come into play?


Btw, does WINE support Vulkan by now?

"Proton" is basically Wine + various patches + DXVK. DXVK is (originally) designed for DX11 -> Vulkan translation. It isn't used at all for any games that natively use OpenGL or Vulkan, so for those games (e.g Doom), think of "Proton" as just Wine + various patches.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

So Vulkan is properly supported by WINE as a pass through by now?
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