Quoting: ageresSpelunky - I played it in 2013 when it was released but wasn't able to beat the final boss. A very addictive game.
Serious Sam 2. It may be the worst Serious Sam game but still fun to play. I had finished few levels in Wine, then it stopped working after one of Wine updates. It works fine with Proton, but performs bad, at about 30 fps.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it. Well, since it is oficially supported for Steam Play, I have no reason for not playing it now. I had been playing Clear Sky though (and didn't finish it).
GTA V with that workaround desribed above. It turns out there's no Steam Cloud and RGSC has not kept my savings either, and I lost 46 hours of playing. Three years passed since I played it, so I forgot all the story anyway, but I'm still angry.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I played it back in 2006 and remember it as a very scary game. I heard it runs very bad on Windows newer than XP, but on Linux I haven't experienced any crashes so far.

You'll be happy to know that the other two Stalker games work perfectly with Steam Play, not sure why they weren't added to the Whitelist with the first one.

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Quoting: Mr. PinskyGTA V.

Yes, it runs on Steam Play/Proton :D

Needs a workaround to make it start, and it occasionally starts stuttering after a while, but overall it's a pretty smooth experience.

How? I've seen footage of it running on Linux, but couldn't find anything to tell me how to get past that Social Club loading.

Instead of telling you to go browse through a bunch of other posts, I'll outline *exactly* what I did to get my GTA V to work, get past social club and into the game (On Nvidia).

To get GTA V to work on Steam Play + Proton:

In 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.

After that

Create a file called gta_dxvk.conf and copy/paste the following in it:

dxgi.customDeviceId = E366
dxgi.customVendorId = 1002

Then save it to your /home/<username>/ folder

Then go to the game properties in your Steam library and set launch options to:

PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/home/<username>/gta_dxvk.conf %command%

I also had to make sure in Nvidia Settings I activated "Force Full Composition Pipeline" and "Force Composition Pipeline," as they disabled themselves the last time I updated drivers. Without this, the game, for me, had tear-able tearing (pun intended).

Now I get 50-65FPS, though I do notice the textures can be a little wonky on the roads past a certain distance; but I think that has to do with the DXVK and Vulkan in the current edition of Nvidia Drivers I'm on, 396.54. I know the 396.54.02 supposedly fixed some stuff but it hasn't showed up in my graphics-drivers:ppa yet.

I hope this helps others get GTA V to work, doing the above steps makes it run flawlessly now for me.

https://github.com/Sirmentio/protontricks
in Terminal you just type protontricks {appid} {command} and it gets on with it for you.

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Quoting: WoodlandorOddly enough, for me, Doom works perfectly with the OpenGl 4.5 renderer.
With the Vulkan renderer, the lighting doesn't seem to work.
Haven't quite figured that one out yet.

Since you're using a GTX 760, which driver version are you running? It shouldn't matter much since the game is already a couple years old and Vulkan didn't have as many extensions back then but you never know, it's the first place I'd start.

396.45

You at least need 396.51 for Proton , better to have 396.54

I have the same issue. Not sure if it is a lightning problem or is just that textures are pitch black. I've noticed that if I reduce the Anti aliasing to "SMAA", I can play in Vulkan mode, but with lower graphics.

I was happy about this suggestion. But I did upgrade my NVIDIA drivers to 396.54, change the Anti-Aliasing up to "TAA (1x)" and the problem still remains. Darkness all around.

I hope there are more suggestions.

I hate to say it but it could be your card, I have a GTX 770 with the same 396.54 drivers & the problem you have is non existent for me.

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Quoting: hummer010Lutris also supports various emulators, DosBox, ScummVM, ResidualVM, etc. It really does a lot more than PlayOnLinux ever did.

I suspect Lutris will be just fine.

I forgot about the emulators but some of them are for stuff that's hard to get legally & aren't something to rely on for your continued existence.

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Quoting: Guestthat's cool but i would still rather have an out of the box experience with quake 2 we need to move away from doing external things which i hope proton offers more and more as they update it

Agree with you totally, but the workaround is there just in case it takes a while.

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Who was it that mentioned Valve creating a steamplay version of Winetricks? I just found this https://github.com/Sirmentio/protontricks [External Link]

Is Sirmentio a member here??? Whoever you are THANK YOU!!!!

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Quoting: Alm888Well, it matters for me for several reasons:

• fake "Linux sales" using Proton™ can increase the number of developers saying "Just use Proton™" to those of us who will ask for Linux port (that possibility have been discussed in the notorious thread here) and I'd rather do not allow this to happen;


• Proton™ being just Valve®-rebranded WINE, is bound to be unstable (honestly, I don't expect Valve® to miraculously fix WINE's "eternal alpha-version" state just by renaming it) and one can not expect "Proton-ports" to be stable;


• some of us (myself included) will not ever use Steam™ as we consider it to be DRM, thus Proton-only "Linux port" effectively means no port at all for us and developers will lose our money (yes, just a small portion of the small portion :P, but still…).

Owerall, IMO, one shall buy a promise only if (s)he is prepared to f*ck with WINE in the worst case (but rather likely, like with "The Witcher III" or "Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams" ) scenario.

Fair points every one of them, can't argue with you on any of it, especially Giana Sisters, I was stung on that one as well. The slime bags will never get another penny from me after that. ;)

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Dungeon Siege 1+2 are both affected by the cursor drifting bug, hopefully this new Proton should fix them as well, I'll get them installed & see what happens.

oh wait I just remembered Dungeon Siege 2 has a black square for a cursor, fingers crossed anyway.

Well there no more drifting cursor at least, that's good news, I just have to remember how to change to custom resolution so I can play through the first game again.

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I know it's not a major game but I've logged 8 hours on Trailer Park Boys:Greasy Money so far, no problems, no crashes, it just works, used all three versions of Proton that have been available.

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Lutris is PlayOnLinux+, it does exactly what PlayOnLinux does but with a bit more polish & with the added advantage of Steam library integration, it's nice but Steam Play is possibly going to kill them both off, why would you need them for Steam games if Steam does it for you already? the only reason they may survive is for GOG games

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