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Gaming on Linux is great!

I know, lame post, but I wanted to say that Linux gaming has gotten soooo much better, to the point that I honestly think my games are running better than on Windows. I’ve played so many games, but notable ones are Halo: MCC, MS Flight Sim 2020, Satisfactory, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and right now I’m starting a full playthrough of Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is notorious even on Windows for being a pain because it’s such an old game. You have to install the 4gb patch, and even then it’s a bit rocky. Not on Linux though! I did have to install PhysX but I googled it and saw it was 2 buttons to install on Linux! Now it’s been rock solid and stable, with no crashes.

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn, but that bar is constantly getting lower! Exciting times!

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m starting a full playthrough of Dragon Age.

If you gonna play the 3 games I can give some advice and some sadnews.

DAO is the oldest but works quite well on Linux, not a single problem.

DA2 need the fucking EA App crap bullshit to run, even on steam. Because of that crap I had a lot of problems with alt + tab, crashings, resolutions bug. To fix it I need to enable virtual desktop in the wineprefix with my monitor resolution, after that everything went smooth.

DAI again the stupid fuck EA App. If you are in the same situation than me: bought the game on Origin, not on steam, I have some bad news about mods. FrostyMods just doesn’t work and is the EA bullshit problem. With the steam version someone made a patch for linux and looks like it works.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted , (edited )
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

DA2 need the fucking EA App crap bullshit to run

Yo ho.*

^*^^At^ ^least^ ^on^ ^Windows.^ ^Not^ ^sure^ ^about^ ^Linux.^

ZeroHora ,
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Extremely annoying have to pirate a bought game because the pirate version works better.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

RIGHT??

I hate it too!

InternetUser2012 ,

I haven’t played that game, but I have some EA games that work great on Lutris. Have you tried that?

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

I tried Lutris, Steam and Bottles, the bug with mods on DAI for what I understand is because the EA crap App doesn’t recognize launch options like Steam does so anything that depends on it doesn’t work, I don’t know why but with the Steam version you can pass I think was GAME_DATA_DIR option and Steam launches the game with the mods.

The bug on DA2 is probably EA not giving a shit with older games, the DAI, ME Andromeda and ME Legendary Edition doesn’t have it.

MicrondeMMMMMMM ,
@MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yep, all my games just work, to be honest it takes me less time to setup my gaming rig on Linux than windows, and it feels solid as hell. If I have a Linux PC I can get steam in a few seconds and start playing just like that!

sturmblast ,

Next time I build a gaming machine it will be Linux based. 2x GPU’s and I’ll do a IOMMU passthrough to a Windows VM for any games that I still need it for. I have several machines and all but two are linux currently. My recording studio is Windows because I have too much invested in software at this point. And this rig which is my main\gaming pc. And if it wasn’t for some anticheat systems I would wipe this thing right now.

ulkesh ,
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Good luck. My experience with vfio is that it works…ish. There are a lot of compromises still, depending on what kind of setup you really want. I’ve effectively said now that if the game doesn’t work on Linux (which now, like you mentioned, is anti-cheat-related), then it’s not worth playing. Windows Recall was enough to finally break me of this “Windows safety blanket” that I’ve had for 25 years of trying to game on Linux. With Proton and Glorious Eggroll’s ge-proton, everything effectively just works. And one day, all this anti-cheat nonsense will be a thing of the past.

sturmblast ,

I’ve done it in the past. It’s always a bit of work. But I really only need it for a handful of things at the most.

Hellmo_Luciferrari ,

There are very few games I have I can’t play on Linux.

Cant get the Crysis Remastered trilogy (epic games variants) working. Can’t get Alan Wake Remastered working above 16fps. And a few more, but guess I don’t need to play them.

victorz ,

Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing the resource you followed to get PhysX to install on Linux?

scrubbles OP ,
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I’m using Lutris, and Wine is my runner. On my game I could see this button here, for Wine.

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/pictrs/image/0db00a81-004e-4695-94b0-28abe4e59659.png

Select the arrow and hit “winetricks”. Then in there it’s a bit convoluted, but

  • Install an Application
  • Cancel
  • Install a Windows DLL or Component
  • Select physx and go!
victorz ,

Lutris seems really cool. I couldn’t get it to work.

I’m on Arch and I tried both the native package as well as the Flatpak version. None of them worked. Something going wrong when installing some shit in an automated installer, I dunno. I wish I could find a good guide. I’m usually handy with these things but I don’t understand the error messages, so…

brocon ,

I’m in the same boat. I installed Bazzite oh my desktop as well as on my Legion Go. Everything runs out of the box. Except Lutris.

victorz ,

I just don’t get it. 😔

AmosBurton_ThatGuy ,
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I’ve been using Bazzite for about 2 months now (daily driver for about a month and a half) and Lutris came preinstalled for me. I’ve had zero problems using it, I have battle.net games and EA app (fuck that app BTW) games installed and it just works for me.

Was it not preinstalled with your initial installation of Bazzite?

brocon ,

Nevermind. Found out it was a failure on my part. By default it does not show un-installed games. Because I had no games installed, it always showed no games. And I assumed it was broken.

AmosBurton_ThatGuy ,
@AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca avatar

Trial and error, I feel your pain. I’ve learned a lot since switching and I’m loving it tbh!

Glad you got it figured out!

GameMuse ,

Yeah Windows has been giving me the shits of years finally moves to linux a few months ago and only one issue I have for gaming is when I am playing balders gate 3 and a switch to another app while it’s running it crashes the game but yeah blown away how great it has been

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