Anything with shooters that use third party anti-cheat. Most of them actively boycott Linux.

Publicado originalmente por Kepos:

Anything with shooters that use third party anti-cheat. Most of them actively boycott Linux.

Just curious, Capcom added anticheat to old RE games. Have you had any issues with any old Capcom games?

Outside of root level anticheat MP/co-op games, any that I did have an issue with usually was a very new release that got sorted with an update to proton or the Mesa drivers (sometimes both) ... but any other issues I've always found solutions for at protondb[www.protondb.com].

rainbow six doesnt have kernel anticheat. yet doesnt work (i mean it works but you cant play multiplayer, so yeah, it doesnt work)

If you need to use workarounds like wine or proton to play the game on Linux then this game certainly has some major issue on Linux - it does not have a native support.

The latest surprise I had was 3DsenVR, not to be confused with the PC version.

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/954280/3dSen_VR/

Development started very early for Steam VR then shifted drastically to support only Meta headsets using dumb workaround solutions before stopping development this summer. The app launches on Linux with Proton fine, but because of how outdated the developer's code is to integrate with the latest efforts to tie Proton to Steam VR headset and controllers on Linux, the VR version is unplayable on Linux. I haven't found a VR game like this that is so troublesome to get functional on Linux; most of them work great, in fact.

The main problem for old games not working on Linux is, as the above story shows, their development shifting exclusively to Windows or other outside platforms, struggling anyway, and pushing out a release without much more contributions.

Publicado originalmente por HulaGirl86:

Publicado originalmente por Kepos:

Anything with shooters that use third party anti-cheat. Most of them actively boycott Linux.

Just curious, Capcom added anticheat to old RE games. Have you had any issues with any old Capcom games?

Sry, didn't try.

Publicado originalmente por Xenophobe:

Outside of root level anticheat MP/co-op games, any that I did have an issue with usually was a very new release that got sorted with an update to proton or the Mesa drivers (sometimes both) ... but any other issues I've always found solutions for at protondb[www.protondb.com].

ProtonDB has been a valuable resource and has been more accurate than SteamOS compatability badges.

I just want people who will be making the leap to have a resource to see what games don't work as well as people would hope. I have been making a full stop switch, but even I keep a single windows 11 device (legion Go) on hand for stuff emergencies and stuff even windows 10 won't fix (Like updating xbox controller firmware).

While I think we are on the verge of normie switchover, we aren't quite there and will see growth in waves not a giant shift all at once.

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The latest surprise I had was 3DsenVR, not to be confused with the PC version.

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/954280/3dSen_VR/

Development started very early for Steam VR then shifted drastically to support only Meta headsets using dumb workaround solutions before stopping development this summer. The app launches on Linux with Proton fine, but because of how outdated the developer's code is to integrate with the latest efforts to tie Proton to Steam VR headset and controllers on Linux, the VR version is unplayable on Linux. I haven't found a VR game like this that is so troublesome to get functional on Linux; most of them work great, in fact.

The main problem for old games not working on Linux is, as the above story shows, their development shifting exclusively to Windows or other outside platforms, struggling anyway, and pushing out a release without much more contributions.

Huh, didn't know VR was having problems.
VR is niche but if you are one of these Niche gamers its important to know.

Anything that would need something extra installed on Windows too, since the retarded design on Wine/Proton its insanely difficult and never even works once you jump through the hoops to run software in the same prefix. Having everything separated made sense on day one when every game needed 500 patches to wine itself to run, thats not the case anymore, everything runs with Proton Experimental, by default all Windows software should be in one prefix so I can just double click an exe and have it pick up the game, not have install launchers for each game separately and run out of trusted logins and have to ♥♥♥♥ with 2FA every time. Any distro that decides to do this early will be the one that'll top the charts Im calling it now, you'll be able to sell Linux to nearly anyone once they can just run Windows software/mods/whatever without the current insane (and usually broken) workarounds. I need to keep Windows for way more old than new games because of this and I hate it so much, such a no brainer solution that needs to be implemented immediately, it blows my mind nobody thought of this before but I guess most Linux gamers too only play latest trash anyways.

About VR, I wasn't able to try it because only HTC Vive/Vive Pro(1 not 2) and Valve Index is supported natively on Linux since they're SteamVR native (I have a piece of ♥♥♥♥ Quest 2 collecting dust that I got for free, i still want a refund), anything else that needs the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ vendor software either doesn't work or is too painful to get working. I hope the next Valve headset will be cheaper, if not I hope someone hacks together the PSVR2 to work on Linux well enough. No matter what stop buying Oculus, idk how one can use Linux and at the same time consider supporting a company like Facebook, they killed PCVR as a whole, ♥♥♥♥ them, ♥♥♥♥ hardware, ♥♥♥♥ software, actively sabotaged PC support even on Windows, 0 Linux development should go into it, focus on worthwhile headsets.
Anyways also I hear SteamVR and Proton on VR games sucks in general, all wired headsets (so all headsets worth using) apparently lag badly and have other issues on Nvidia, etc.
I assume Linux VR will improve once the new Valve headset gets closer to release since its rumored (sadly) that it'll be standalone running SteamOS.

Publicado originalmente por HulaGirl86:

What games have you had problems with on Linux?

None really. Every game runs perfectly fine out-of-the-box. Wired VR (Vive Pro) also works flawlessly. I don't play any competitive online games, so anti-cheat has never been an issue for me. Especially retro games run way better on Linux than on Windows. You don't run into issues with low resolutions, scaling, aspect ratio, missing borderless window support, window positioning, alt+tab bugs and all the other stuff that Windows suffers from.

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Publicado originalmente por HulaGirl86:

What games have you had problems with on Linux?

None really. Every game runs perfectly fine out-of-the-box. Wired VR (Vive Pro) also works flawlessly. I don't play any competitive online games, so anti-cheat has never been an issue for me. Especially retro games run way better on Linux than on Windows. You don't run into issues with low resolutions, scaling, aspect ratio, missing borderless window support, window positioning, alt+tab bugs and all the other stuff that Windows suffers from.

I am hoping that Lutris and Heroic Launcher don't have issues and runs as well as steam

Code Vein never worked for me on Linux with an Nvidia card.

Just use ProtonDB. It's literally a database for exactly that.

Publicado originalmente por Chaosolous:

Just use ProtonDB. It's literally a database for exactly that.

Nobody writes their performance and game settings or anything detailed there usually, everyone just says "works perfectly" when the performance tanks by half compared to Windows or need crazy workarounds to get basics like the overlay working.
At least you can filter by hardware and Proton versions I guess.

Code Vein worked when I completed it in 2021 but doesn't now, just says running while doing nothing. Tried a few things and eventually got an error with a link to a page saying "Currently your game purchase cannot be re-validated successfully, please wait 24 hours and try again." So I got the DRM working at least.

I would say in general I have more native Linux games that don't work than I have Windows games that don't work in Proton