Now if only they would give us an easy way to install Unreal Tournament on Linux.

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Let's put it this way: Microsoft is not doing this because they think it will lose them money and market share. If they can keep or expand both by being good open source citizens, then they will. If they need to grind open source into the dust in order to achieve their goals, then they will.

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Quoting: Kels

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestBest news since Proton was announced! This means playable Skyrim at last! My favourite game of all time!

Skyrim is playable on linux(with wine) for a very long time. I'm playing it for 2 years.

Just don't do any quests that involve going underwater.

That's actually a common Skyrim bug that has plagued many Windows gamers for years. You can solve it by modifying a configuration file, but it has the unfortunate side effect of removing all underwater shaders.

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Quoting: jarhead_h

Quoting: dibzBetter .Net support would be HUGE for Wine, it's the bane of any linux user's winesperience. That and old windows kernel-level DRM, anyway.

Right now there are bunch of .net games that run on WINE that don't run on Proton. Arkham Asylum and Arkham Knight spring to mind.

There are various "hacks" to get .net to install in Proton, but I've not had any success with them.

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No more Total War games, please.

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Lutris seems to work pretty well. I installed my old copy of Guild Wars 2 over the weekend and am getting great performance. Diablo 3 works OK, but there's a bug somewhere that's preventing me from running it with DXVK (the Battle.net launcher gives me an error, and I can't proceed), so the performance is a bit janky, but it's otherwise playable. I haven't installed a whole lot else, but so far, I prefer it to Play on Linux because it's more configurable, and the install scripts are more up to date.

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Now, someone might argue why support Linux? Here's a reason you can share: You really can't port your engine to consoles without going to Linux first. It's really that simple. No Linux port, no console versions because you need a "clean slate" version of it.

Which begs the question, Why not just start with a "clean slate" instead of making a Windows version and then having to "clean it up" before you can port to other systems?

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Quoting: KrumpetPirate

Quoting: Mountain ManDo the Batman Arkham games work yet? Those are the only ones I really care about.

Arkham Origins runs at least, but very poorly. I think it crashed out or I got so annoyed with the terrible graphical glitches that I quit the game and moved on to the next test.

According to the reports, it should run pretty well:

https://spcr.netlify.com/app/209000 [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wI-58WDpa4 [External Link]

Arkham City should run as well, after some changes:
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/200260 [External Link]

Looks like you have to jump through some hoops to get .NET installed, but it's promising.

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Do the Batman Arkham games work yet? Those are the only ones I really care about.

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147,000 Euros, huh? Gabe can pay that from the change he digs out of his sofa on a weekly basis.

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