Dealing with games that just won't run on Linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by RadDevon@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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How are people coping with games that just won't run on Linux (aside from leaving them behind)? Do you dual boot Windows? Virtualize? What's your strategy for this?

This will be extremely rare for me since I don't play a lot of competitive stuff, but I'd love to find a solution. I have a large library, and it's bound to happen from time to time.

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[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I usually go on protondb and try whatever people tried until it works. Right now I'm playing on nvidia geforce 1050 ti with proprietary drivers on Bazzite and somehow it just works. For games that run badly natively on Steam I switch to Proton.

You might have a different experience than I do since I only play games that are at least 3 years old and never online competitive games.

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