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I heard it's starting to get better (lemdro.id)
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[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 126 points 1 year ago

With proton, this is less and less the case.

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 50 points 1 year ago

Indeed, God bless proton

[-] intelati@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

Basically, I tried proton and I'll never go back.

The overhead of windows is so heavy

[-] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I just made the jump again and I don't think I'll be going back to Windows. I'm getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.

Very happy to be free of windows finally.

[-] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming

[-] bigdog_00@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise it's all Linux babyyyy

[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I've been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I can't login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesn't launch at all. It's still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. I'm hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.

[-] zcode@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

Was amazed at how good this is.

[-] heehaw@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

what is proton? what does it do?

[-] moody@lemmings.world 22 points 1 year ago

Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It's a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It's a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It's gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if only I could multibox.

turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.

edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, I'm not even sorry for my Windows partition while that's a thing.

[-] Poopmeister@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I've recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.

[-] Water1053@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

"Has some quirks" is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.

[-] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It’s just a even more evil cheating if still do it

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