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Tarogar ,

Iirc I did that for roughly a year and then proton hit. It was a bit of a different experience for sure but even at that time it was not all that bad. coincidentally that time also taught me a lot on how to troubleshoot stuff so I suppose it had it’s benefits despite the added hassle that it was sometimes.

psmgx ,

Yeah I did. God bless WineDB.

Steam before proton was okay for stuff like Fallout 3. Needed some hackery with Wine prefixes and getting the right DLLs in there but eventually worked. Older GoG games like Alpha Centauri were fine with DosBox.

Proton is great. Cyberpunk 2077 on Ultra.

sirico ,
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Basically some Source games, Gog’s offerings and Guild Wars in-between rounds of tuxkart

possiblylinux127 ,

Insert Tuxkart music

mipadaitu ,

Played WoW when it first came out with WINE. It was miserable. We had to mess with configs, install hacked patches, manually start jobs with scripts. And every patch broke something so you had to start from scratch again.

This was probably 2004/2005?

RandomStickman ,
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I tried to get Wine working for STALKER before Proton. Never managed lol

savvywolf ,
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It was rough. I basically gave up on playing 3D games on Linux for the longest time and used a dualboot. Much less hassle.

What convinced me was when they verified Apex Legends, which was a game I was not expecting to be verified at all. Turns out Proton secretly got really good in all that time.

joyjoy ,

It’s hit or miss. A gold rated game on protondb performed terrible when I used a keyboard and mouse. Everything was smooth, but looking around was studdery. Even worse, the game failed to properly capture my mouse, so I kept getting stopped when my “cursor” hit the edge of the screen. I literally could not look around.

umbrella , (edited )
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the stutter has to do with mouse capture too.

on my side changing to exclusive fullscreen helps, hope it helps you too!

joyjoy ,

The developers, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not make that an option.

SorryQuick ,

You can force it if you use gamescope, solved mouse issues for me in the past.

bjoern_tantau ,
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I bought Tomb Raider 2013 because it was Linux native. Nowadays I recommend people to play the Windows version.

I remember that Unreal Tournament 2003 came with a bootable Linux CD to play the game.

stoy ,

I have the original CD release of UT2004, it has a full Linux installer and worked well on a Dell E5400 running Ubuntu back in 2008-2010 when I was attending LAN perties

kender242 ,
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Still have the quake 3 Linux tin box around here somewhere…

thehatfox ,
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein also had an official Linux port in 2002-ish.

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