Forza Horizon proton issues are to do with the user account login stuff, which is why only the pirated version works. I guess we wait a bit longer.

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I don't like this. Already if you use Gnome, but maybe you like Ark, you cannot drag files from Ark to Nautilus. We love all the choice, but we're half forced to use "pure" desktop environments to ensure a consistent experience. Mixing apps from different desktops mean loads of additional bloat and applications that look like they do not belong together.

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Quoting: LinuxwarperAll it needs is a "simple" EAC patch

It can hardly even be called that. They just have to update to the latest version of the EAC SDK. Something they have to do anyway to keep their anticheat current and working.

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I know they are hesitant because the second they say they are enabling anticheat for Proton, they feel have to now support Proton. And by "support" I mean keep it working, QA it, handle support queries etc.

But what they don't realise is that for the past 3 years, Linux users have been buying and playing unsupported games, and all of the aforementioned support has been done by Valve and partners, and the Linux community itself. None of this has to change.

Just flip the damn switch, people. We'll handle it the same as we've always done.

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleNeat.

I have a loosely Deck related tale to share too. On Friday, the game Let's Build a Zoo launched on Steam and was crashing on startup in Proton. So we supplied the devs with some info, which turned out was it failing to load some mp3. They could not fix it but applied a workaround for us on Saturday, and now the game is 100% playable with no additional crashes. Just there's no music.

I would not normally ask a dev specifically to fix a game for Proton, but in this case I know the publisher has a Steam Deck dev kit and have shown off their other game, Descenders, running on it, so I assumed this was relevant to them.

40% chance this is a path issue, either casing, encoding, or doing something otherwise funny. Or maybe they depend on a windows API for decoding these.

It extracts the mp3 from the dll, loads it into memory and then deletes the extracted file. I guess it's intended as copy protection for the music. A null reference error occurs at one of those steps. I'm fairly certain this is a thing that can be fixed via wine-mono (the game uses monogame/xna). Either way, I was impressed they applied the workaround so quickly. At least people who want can actually play it now.

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Neat.

I have a loosely Deck related tale to share too. On Friday, the game Let's Build a Zoo launched on Steam and was crashing on startup in Proton. So we supplied the devs with some info, which turned out was it failing to load some mp3. They could not fix it but applied a workaround for us on Saturday, and now the game is 100% playable with no additional crashes. Just there's no music.

I would not normally ask a dev specifically to fix a game for Proton, but in this case I know the publisher has a Steam Deck dev kit and have shown off their other game, Descenders, running on it, so I assumed this was relevant to them.

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Quoting: NitsugaI hope Siege becomes playable!

This might just be a fluke, but according to GloriousEggroll.

https://twitter.com/GloriousEggroll/status/1457085332537675777?t=XRNnbduVwXKamvMdR848HA&s=19 [External Link]

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So I guess the bar is lower now. We'll be finding out who can't be bothered to just send an email.

I had a look at the list of games that use BattlEye and it's not as many as EAC, and most not really a big loss, but there are a few in there that I think people would like to be able to play.

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I am planning to check it out f'sure. Most of the content will be stuff known to most of us for a long time now, but I am curious to see who else is in the Q&A and what kind of questions come up.

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I saw a dev post his game running on a Steam Deck and he genuinely seemed shocked that the game works as he "literally did nothing" to get the game to work.

They do not realise that (aside from all the money spent on this by Valve) there has been a horde of Linux users on the Proton/vkd3d/dxvk github issues discussions providing logs, traces, reports, etc.

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