Gaming on GNU/Linux

Anybody here play games on Linux? What have you been playing?

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I've been playing some Mount & Blade Warband on my linux mint machine after realizing that it probably can't handle Bannerlord.
It runs just as smoothly as when I used to play it on windows, but there are some weird graphical glitches here-and-there, like how the game seems to be rendering textures in lower quality the closer I get to them instead of the other way around, especially noticeable inside castles with all the stonework.
Also every body of water in the game has a transparent repeating texture of a cow viewed from the side superimposed on top of it for some reason.

Are you playing it in WINE, or are you running the native version?

Native. Honestly I imagine that it would probably run better if I just fed the windows version through Steam's built-in Linux compatibility tool.

I am very happy that Linux gaming got decent in last few years. It's very comfy to play video games while stuck at home.

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Still working my way through the original NWN after the recent upgrades its gotten.

Currently thinking to migrate to CentOS from Windows. And since I only currently playing CSGO I dont see any issues. I will play what its available.

>I am very happy that Linux gaming got decent in last few years.
Very much this. When people try to tell me that Linux has no games, I scratch my head. I've been really active on Steam lately because of Corona chan, and I have 66 games installed, all of them work.

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Any reason for CentOS in particular? I love stable distros, but that sounds like overkill, lol.

Sometimes native Linux ports of a game are a big fat warning.

how do we convince more people to start using Linux?
That's the only way to get more games that run well on Linux

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you won't.

i used to game on linux back in the 00's. i was pretty much limited to Id software titles. so i just played Quake and UT mostly.

I switched to Gentoo full-time and it works great but some games require tinkering to get them running. Framerates are usually about 20-30 fps less than what they'd run at on Windows. I would only recommend switching to GNU/Linux if you enjoy messing around with software, and if you mostly play old games/indie games that you can run on Windows at >60 fps.
>What have you been playing?
Currently playing Planescape: Torment for the first time, it's pretty nice.
Before that I played Black Mesa and The Outer Worlds. BM ran well but if I tried to increase The Outer Worlds' texture quality above low then it gave me unplayable stuttering.
People have been trying to do this for years and it's just not worth it. We don't need more companies capitalizing from it and we don't need a normie-accessible Linux desktop. GNU/Linux has always been a niche OS as a daily driver and most people have no use for it.

I'm playing Daiakuji (native, via the open source game engine).

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Witcher 3
Grim Dawn
Dues Ex

how does TW3 run? what are your specs?

I've mostly been on a retro gaming binge.

I had to do some work to get the original Tomb Raider to work. The Steam version comes packaged with the Windows version of DOSBox, and some DOSBox-powered games will just work in Proton, but Tomb Raider doesn't. I guess that's fine, though, because running the Windows version of DOSBox through Proton is just needlessly convoluted. So I installed Boxtron (github.com/dreamer/boxtron/releases) to get Steam to run its DOSBox-powered games using a native Linux DOSBox, and set it up to use DOSBox-staging which fixes some bugs in the official DOSBox, and now Tomb Raider works pretty well.

Boxtron also comes with an install-gog-game script which takes a GOG installer for a DOS game and helps set up the game to run in Steam/Boxtron. So I used that to install the GOG versions of the Alone in the Dark trilogy. I was a bit of a dumbass and didn't read all the Boxtron documentation, so it took me 20 minutes to realize that you need to install some additional dependencies (github.com/dreamer/dosbox-staging#linux) when you're using DOSBox-staging outside of Steam or even using it through Steam to play non-Steam games. I guess Steam's runtime environment provides these dependencies somehow for Steam games so I didn't need them for Tomb Raider.

At least I've got all my boomer games working now.

Apart from these issues, DOSBox-powered Steam games seem to work pretty well with Boxtron. So if you're going to try playing DOS games through Steam on Linux, I recommend it. I sometimes have to adjust the CPU cycles in a DOSBox config file, but I've had to do that shit on Windows too. In the Alone in the Dark games, specifically, the default CPU speed seems to make running (which is done by double-tapping the walk button) not always work.

The only thing that'll get people to move over in any considerable number is for Microsoft to keep fucking Windows up.

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MS has quite literally bricked peoples installs at least three times in the last two years with their forced updates. If that isn't enough, nothing is.

>install Darkula (locomalito.com/darkula.php)
>run it with Wine 4.0, with no special set-up, literally just "wine Darkula.exe"
>it works perfectly
>add to Steam as a non-Steam game and run it with Proton
>it refuses to run (pic related)
???

I did successfully run the game with Proton before, but that was a while ago, so it wasn't the same Proton version or anything. I guess it doesn't matter that Proton won't run it, considering I can literally just run it with Wine without any problems and it's a non-Steam game. I just wish I knew the reason for this. I guess this is just one of those rare cases where Proton makes things a bit worse. Or maybe it's that Proton is using a different version of Wine internally, and that different Wine version is fucking it up.

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>Or maybe it's that Proton is using a different version of Wine internally, and that different Wine version is fucking it up.
Could be that. Might want to try grabbing protontricks and fiddling around with the prefix anyway.

It's worth mentioning that every game has it's own prefix in Proton. Might wanna look into that.

how do we convince microshaft to open source windows 7

No reason to use CentOS over Fedora for a home system.

We don't.

Thanks. Getting this game to run with Proton specifically probably isn't worth the effort, but I'll keep protontricks in mind for other games.

I'm having a slightly different problem now, though, which is probably just a result of my inexperience with using Wine. When I ran Darkula using Wine before, I think I only had my primary 1920x1080 monitor enabled, and it ran in full-screen as expected. Now I have my secondary 1280x1024 monitor enabled as well, and when I run Darkula, it fills only a 1280x1024-sized space on my 1920x1080 monitor (pic related). So apparently Wine is confused about which display and/or which resolution it should use.

Is this easily fixable with some command-line argument, environment variable, or winecfg adjustments? It seems that almost every time I have trouble with Wine, the most popular answer on the internet is "go install this other thing" -- which I really don't want to do, just for the ability to run some freeware game in fullscreen with both monitors enabled.

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>Also every body of water in the game has a transparent repeating texture of a cow viewed from the side superimposed on top of it for some reason.
lmao
>Honestly I imagine that it would probably run better if I just fed the windows version through Steam's built-in Linux compatibility tool.
I've played several games which have fucked-up or complete broken Linux versions but whose Windows versions run very well in Proton. So it's definitely worth a try.

>hacker@thinkpad ~> sudo paceman -Syyu
>[sudo] password for hacker:
>sudo: paceman: command not found
Who /l33t haxx0r/ here

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Nah I'm just a retard who uses Linux because it's the only remotely tolerable thing to use that has good support.

anyone tried Doom 64 yet? proton says it has mouse problems and I don't know if there's a solution yet

Why on earth are you not playing the sourceport?

I wanna play the new levels...

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Oh, is that a thing? Fair enough.

honestly the only thing keeping me from switching to linux is the lack good creative software

based boomer

Ok, I'm going to shill this cool program I found, Hamachi is shit in GNU/Linux and in Windows too, but it's the only one program I know it worked ; but yesterday I found this one:

zerotier.com/

Less shit, less bloated, works on Loonix and Windows, lets you create networks up to 16 ips, and it's Open Source, not Free Open Source, but it's sure an step up from Hamachi.

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>34 replies
>still no Windows shill shitposting
miraculous

Anyway, recent ProtonDB reports for Alan Wake seem to be more promising than the ones I saw months ago, so I think I'll install that and try playing it.

>honestly the only thing keeping me from switching to linux is the lack good creative software
I'm an artfag and I use Krita.

Ricing is the best Linux game.

>Anyway, recent ProtonDB reports for Alan Wake seem to be more promising than the ones I saw months ago, so I think I'll install that and try playing it.
Damn, really? I refunded mine because it wouldn't play well in Proton a little while back. Might pick it up next sale if it truly is the case.
>>still no Windows shill shitposting
If any Windows shill shows up, just point them to these posts

So how good is Linux for gaming? I've heard you can run Windows games on a Linux, is that true? I'm still using Win7 because I really don't want to switch to 10 and I've thought about giving Linux a try, but I don't think it'd be worth it if I can't play half of my games.

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protondb.com/
you can check how games run on limux here

>So how good is Linux for gaming?
It's fine with most things as long as you don't play games that use Easy Anti-Cheat, which might I remind you that Valve was previously working with to make their software actually work on Linux before Epic Games conveniently bought them up, cancelled the plans, and then removed Linux support for some of their own games like Rocket League that previously had support.

>I refunded mine because it wouldn't play well in Proton a little while back. Might pick it up next sale if it truly is the case.
I didn't read the ProtonDB reports carefully; I just saw the first few reports, and they didn't seem to have the same missing-texture complaints that I remember seeing a few months ago. So definitely don't take my post as an indication that the game works perfectly.

I could come back and post my findings after I try running my copy which is currently downloading, but a game that works for me isn't really guaranteed to work for you anyway...

It's times like these that I wish all games had playable demos. I mean, you could just use the game itself as a demo by playing for two hours and returning it if you're not happy, but do that too much and Steam will start rejecting your refund requests.

just another reason to hate epic

>Steam cares about Linux, but has Steam drm.
>GoG is a linuxfag's dream, but has no Linux support.

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Epic shills who worship Epic because "muh Valve monopoly" never mention the fact that Epic is literally going out of their way to screw over Linux, furthering Microsoft's OS monopoly which is much worse.
GoG sells a lot of Linux games. Quit spreading disinfo.

I'm talking about GoG Galaxy, I forgot to type in the Galaxy part.

>GoG sells a lot of Linux games. Quit spreading disinfo.
I'm not him, and you're right that they sell some Linux games, but I'd love a Linux version of GOG Galaxy as well, just for convenience.

Thanks that's very helpful
>Lots of my games are platnum or gold
Damn I didn't expect it to be this good!
>Easy Anti-Cheat
Anti-cheat on any OS sucks cocks and is super fussy.
Thanks user, looks neat Sayaka is cute. CUTE!

Is there anything specific thing I should know about if I want to install Linux? Are the /g/ guides the way to go for installing it?

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In the interest of being helpful, I should probably just link this page: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support

If you have a Southern Islands (SI) card, you'll have to set "radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1", but if you have a Sea Islands (CIK) card, you'll have to set "radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1". And of course if you have a newer card, you probably don't have to do anything.

This command will show whether you're using radeon or amdgpu:
lspci -k | grep -E 'radeon|amdgpu'

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It isn't. You can run many games without steam open.

yessss, it works.
sorry, i know, >windows 10, I use windows on my desktop, Void on my laptop.

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As much as /g/ bitches about the Yas Forums boogeyman, why are you guys all so nice and helpful in comparison?

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/g/ is full of idiots who only use linux to show off their riced up anime desktops.

Most people on Yas Forums are cunts, but the shitposters mostly stick to threads about shitpost-worthy topics, and Linux gaming threads generally escape their attention. So sometimes with niche topics such as Linux, you actually end up with a thread full of people who actually want to discuss the topic at hand instead of just spamming memes like brainless retards.