Steam games with linux runtimes don't work (Mint) (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I've got a weird issue and figured I'd see if anybody knows how to fix it. I've noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?

The latest one I was trying to play was Pyre. I tried looking through the logs, but couldn't find anything obvious to me.

Edit: Whatever it is, it looks like its not something simple, but that is okay because everything seems to work fine with proton anyway. Thanks for the help anyway! :)

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Currently I prefer Windows versions of games. I understand the people who much rather have a native port, but I've come to view Windows (Wine, Proton) as the Linux Gaming API Layer. When you think of it like that, it doesn't really matter if the game has a native port or not.

Last week I installed a game on Steam (can't remember the title, sorry) that had a Feral native port. It complained about my card not being supported and crashed. I then installed the Proton version and it simply worked.

Even if there is a native port, it probably takes work to keep up with Linux rapidly evolving features than to keep it running on Windows relatively static APIs.

So I thank Microsoft for the Linux Gaming API (and the intrepid Wine devs), I'm sure they didn't intend it to be this way but here we are.

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