Quoting: F.UltraAnyone that knows what kind of magic that Steam adds when running games? I've tried to rename "DyingLightGame" to "DyingLightGame.exe" and then created a small shell script named "DyingLightGame" that just did "./DyingLightGame.exe" as a preparation for doing glibc preload but the game refused to start even with such a basic script (it couldn't find the steam overlay I think it complained about) so it looks like Steam does more than just execute the binary.

No need for custom scripts. You can add your LD_PRELOAD magic to the game's launch options. Right click the game in your library, select "Properties" -> "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS...":
LD_PRELOAD=path_to_lib.so %command%

Just bear in mind that when it comes to Dying Light and glibc, others have tried and failed. I hope you have better luck.

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Quoting: edoSo after this basically all games (except games with weird drm) will work.

There are many other reasons games do not work with Wine. This will help dxvk support several popular games which is nice, but don't expect too much. You can find some more information here [External Link].

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Quoting: ArthurI'm a pragmatist myself, and I play proprietary games including on Windows, but unlike many Linux users I don't go around preaching free software while carving out exceptions for myself, like running old or new proprietary games natively or in emulators or compatibility layers which often come with issues.

If you want to run proprietary software, surely it's better to do it on a platform you trust? This is not math and two negatives do not make a positive.

I'm not one to preach free software or anything else really, but I don't see how your views are more pragmatic than the ones you condemn. Convenient for you maybe, but that's hardly the same thing.

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Quoting: razing32We do seem to be getting a lot of point and clicks recently.
Wondering if the devs are more open to linux or if it is the engines they are using ?

Isn't it obvious? Point-and-click adventures are awesome. Linux is awesome. Awesome people like awesome things.

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I already own Wasteland 2 and Tides of Numenera, and although Shadow Tactics looks great, I had to go for the lowest tier this time. AER and Oxenfree seem well worth the 0.90€.

I have no use for the Unity assets. If anyone wants them, just shoot me a PM.

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Quoting: GuestIn Terminal, enter the following command, changing the dir to fit your own:

WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/271590/pfx
winetricks --gui

Then select default prefix, install a font and finally corefonts

I went this route because using the WINEPREFIX=/home/.../pfx winetricks corefonts command got stuck installing Gecko for me, and the gui powered through it somehow.

You should be able to avoid that mess by using Proton's wine binary like this:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/root/SteamApps/compatdata/271590/pfx" WINE="$HOME/.steam/root/SteamApps/common/Proton 3.7 Beta/dist/bin/wine" winetricks corefonts

Notice that SteamApps capitalization seems to differ between systems, and the Wine path assumes you have set Proton Beta as your compatibility tool in the Steam Play config. Also, you should naturally have winetricks installed for this to work.

A shell script to find and set up the environment variables wouldn't be difficult to write, so I assume someone who actually uses proton more extensively than I do has already done it. EDIT: I assumed right. See lucifertdark's comment above.

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I'll be continuing my playthrough of Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, which I recently got as a gift. It's a well executed remaster of a PS2-era 3D platformer with two unique playable characters and plenty to see and do. The Linux release seems pretty much flawless. Well worth playing if you can handle the occasional awkwardness inherent to the genre. Just don't give up before you finish the tutorial like Samsai did. :P

I'm also liable to help my Linux buddies lose a few Rocket League matches, and I really should finish my Dirt Rally GOL league run as well.

If I'm not feeling quite up for action, Deponia Doomsday will provide a satisfactory point-and-click adventure fix.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: Saulsecsiramirez Guess you can say this is picking up steam. ?

I think we can safely say that. After just a week there are already 771 issues created and 26 pull requests. You can't easily find projects with this much activity so early.

This is not exactly true since the majority are whitelist requests.

Of the 799 issues open currently only 304 are whitelist requests, but in any case, activity is activity.

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Quoting: Chronarius

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Chronarius

Quoting: tuubiWhy would anyone gaming exclusively on Linux have collected a large wishlist of non-Linux games and had the filter set to show Windows games as well?

Maybe to show the developer there is a demand for a Linux port?

That didn't make sense before platform-specific wishlisting was announced, and in the announcement it was made very clear that you should set the store filter accordingly.

Well, then it is "Unspecified Platform" for me. I'm playing games on Linux and Windows, and I'm not switching around in the Store settings and search the game in the store everytime just to show there is demand for Linux.

It's nice that you'd like to do this if it was a bit more convenient for you, but I still don't see the big problem here. If you buy games on Steam for both Windows and Linux, there's no reason for a developer to assume a platform preference for any single wishlist item. And having a separate platform setting for the wishlist would seem a bit redundant. You'll just have to do your advocacy some other way.

EDIT: Let's not take this further off topic, okay? I think this sort of discussion belongs on the forum.

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Quoting: Leopard

Rocket League

They tested it and it performed good?

Yes they can test it but i bet that ran like crap on that hardware.

Should run just fine with reasonably low graphical settings. It's pretty much playable at 720p even on an Intel iGPU (I've tried it), so the A10/R7 should do just fine. Won't be beautiful on a big TV screen but it'll run.

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