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Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 up for testing with a Release Candidate - Street Fighter V playable
28 Apr 2020 at 3:45 pm UTC Likes: 5

Street Fighter V finally playable?! What the f... incredible! <3

Putting a Linux game on Steam: Missing Executable - a common pitfall for game devs
21 Apr 2020 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BigJSorry for the necrobump but I was trying to play Into the Breach today because they have a new native Linux build and got this error :/
Fix in the article.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/into-the-breach-from-subset-games-ftl-now-supports-linux.16475

How-to: upscale old games on Linux
12 Apr 2020 at 10:45 pm UTC

Quoting: zimanoIncluded some pics
You have to link the files directly for them to embed properly, and it would be nice to hide them with a spoiler tag so the post doesn't take up a whole page by itself. :)
Example:
Spoiler, click me

ViewPort scaling with Nvidia is yet another way to skin this cat, cheers!

How-to: upscale old games on Linux
11 Apr 2020 at 2:29 pm UTC

Quoting: WorMzyI'm not sure what this has to do with Lutris? All the tools involved appear to be standalone, and any game helper that allows you to set your own launch parameters could use them, no?
Correct. I used Lutris in the article as it is a superb game manager/launcher and easily allows customizations like these. Other similar applications can of course be used, as well as custom .desktop files, shell scripts etc.

You can even add a non-Steam game in the Steam client and make this work, although it's a bit messy. If you desperately need to know how, let me know and I'll write it up.

How-to: upscale old games on Linux
11 Apr 2020 at 10:37 am UTC Likes: 2

This also works with Dosbox by the way, in case you need more than the 3x scaling it provides. 320x200 with 3x scaling is 960x600, that's still kinda small on higher resolutions. In theory it'll work with anything. Wayland not tested... :)

Quoting: heidi.wengerThanks but if only this could be easier... the scale of those instructions for a simple thing once again make me dizzy :dizzy:

Could it be possible to integrate somehow, someday to Lutris?

I suppose a snap or a flatpak solution wouldn't be of help here?
Unless you also need help with installing a game in Lutris, the specific instructions for this are just 4 terminal commands, plus adding the command prefix in Lutris. If you don't have git installed, simply add git to the first install command, like so:
sudo apt install xpra xvfb git

You can always manually download the script. Replace the 'git clone' command then with extracting the downloaded archive, then follow the rest of the instructions. Arch users can find run_scaled-git in the AUR.

Xephyr is another possible solution that Lutris incorporates in the settings, but like I mentioned, it requires installing another package and also doesn't do scaling easily. You have to fiddle with xrandr scaling there. It's a more complex way to do pretty much the same thing.

Lutris could do with some improvements in this area. :)

The Humble Conquer COVID-19 Bundle is live with lots of Linux games and all going to charity
1 Apr 2020 at 8:40 am UTC Likes: 1

That's a massive amount of games and stuff for 28€ (or more, as you please), over 1000€ worth for the price of one game. 97% off! :wub:

Even if you already own many of the listed items, the crazy value and proceeds going to a good cause makes this a worthwhile investment. Note: I know nothing about any of those charities.

Valve's revamp of Artifact with a 2.0 Beta will start going out to players sometime soon
31 Mar 2020 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 2

Isn't this what they should have done at launch? :whistle:

Fast-paced arcade combat-racing with RC cars 'PocketCars' adds Linux support
19 Mar 2020 at 8:34 pm UTC

Quoting: TcheyHowever the perf are bad on my machine.
I’m playing Wreckfest via Proton, and it’s both prettier and smoother with more detailed and simu.
To be honest, you're a good bit away from the recommended specs for PocketCars and pretty much spot on the recommended specs for Wreckfest. Even with some Proton overhead, it's a reasonable expectation that Wreckfest runs better on your machine.
There's always hope for performance optimizations!