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Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 Aug 2018 at 7:17 pm UTC

Turning off esync with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 got rid of the crashes I had in Carmageddon MD, increasing the file open limit wasn't enough.

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 Aug 2018 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GuestRunning Doom in Steam Play does not work for me.[...]
I think it still starts up in OpenGL mode, try setting the launch option "+r_renderAPI 1" to force Vulkan.

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 Aug 2018 at 1:17 pm UTC

I've had some problems with (unsupported) titles* opening file descriptors like crazy and eventually crashing. Not sure if it's a bug unique to Proton or a Wine issue.

* Carmageddon Max Damage, Quake Champions and possibly others.


Apparently this is because of Proton using the esync patch:
https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/README.esync [External Link]

The comments in that file doesn't seem correct. Debian still have a 4096 limit by default. Anyhow, raising that limit does get rid of the errors. Carma still crashes but that's another bug.

...and esync can be turned off with PROTON_NO_ESYNC:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton [External Link]

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 Aug 2018 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: X6205Is it possible also backup and restore Windows games in native linux client when they are compatible with new Steam Play? I have some Windows games backed up, for example Doom 2016. Can i restore from this backup to Steam client beta? I really don't want to re-download this game again under linux..
Works fine!

Wine 3.5 is out with their own Vulkan loader and plenty of fixes for games
2 Apr 2018 at 6:21 pm UTC

Mafia II should be playable. But it will either not render shadows, or render garbage instead of shadows. Gallium Nine have the same problem.

Wednesday Madness, a look at some good Linux games currently on sale
28 Mar 2018 at 4:29 pm UTC

American Truck Simulator (and ETS2) are 70% off. I've been freeloading of the demo versions for a long time so I guess it's time for the full version.

A Linux version of Heretic-inspired FPS 'AMID EVIL' is planned
7 Mar 2018 at 7:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI swear this had a demo for Linux

Maybe I'm thinking of a different game
Apocryph did have a build.

HITMAN will have the first location available completely free later today
20 Jun 2017 at 7:03 pm UTC

Quoting: EgonautThe Demo downloads 6.2GB for me but this is just the two first Tutorial missions, nothing more...
From http://steamcommunity.com/app/236870/discussions/0/2333276539613430162/ [External Link]

"All Steam users will be able to download The ICA Facility and the download includes absolutely everything that we’ve released for that location; two story missions (including all cut-scenes), two Escalation Contracts, more than 40 challenges, 17 achievements and trophies, plus thousands of player-created missions in Contracts Mode – all of that is now available completely free of charge."

HITMAN will have the first location available completely free later today
20 Jun 2017 at 5:40 pm UTC

Looks like there were problems and it has been delayed.

There was a demo button on the store page, but it only downloaded an empty directory for me.

Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
9 Jan 2017 at 8:32 pm UTC

Quoting: jsa1983Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Steam forum? Mail?

I've got a few of them:

- Crookz
- Grand ages: Medieval
- Dying Light (compatibility profile)
- Dead Island (except for the Ryder campaign, which surprisely works fine)
See the wiki page in the original post, I'm sure Liam can send it to Valve later.

As for the games, make sure that you actually report bugs upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org [External Link]

I see no entries at all for Crookz or Grand Ages there. Mesa devs can't fix bugs they aren't aware of.