@misterk81 Updated title to make it shorter and clearer, hope you don’t mind.
OT: Hope valve follows through this time and that it’s not another one of their DOA projects.like SteamOS.
SteamOS might not have found much use in terms of install base, but it still helped Linux Gaming as a whole immensely. I wouldn’t call it DOA per se.
I really hope that this gets gamers attention, this is great news for linux gaming. I hope this project doesn’t die and the gamelibrary keeps expanding!
Nah, It’s fine. The new title is less convoluted.
Still having problems with this, games are not lauching. Tired of installing wine and DXVK.
It might be because of the update that happened yesterday. I had a similar issue where none of my games would launch and my only solution was to go into my steamapps/compatdata directory in my Steam folder and delete all of the compatdata folders and try launching the games again.
This didin’t help, i guess its the steam 
Hmmm… maybe it’s your hardware configuration? Or possibly drivers? I dunno…
I’m running latest drivers, but i have amd cpu. Dunno what is all about. I guess this doesn’t work for me atleast now 
I’m going to say that the CPU is probably not the issue. I have never really heard of AMD CPU’s causing compatibility issues like this. But it could be GPU or GPU driver related? Maybe? I’m just taking guesses.
I had two nvidia drivers on my ubuntu installation, so i deleted both and installed only one.
Have you checked out the quick start guide?
Maybe there is something here that can be useful?
I tired that, i have installed my drivers as that documentation says and deleted the old one. Btw, there is separate topic for this.
3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Windows Games on Steam for Linux. [Proton client Testing grounds]
Imo for Linux gaming to be taken seriously it need to be plug and play if the game isn’t plug and play it’s not working in my book. Think of the average windows gamer the “I wanna game” gamer , any level of work beyond buying a game and clicking install means the game doesn’t work out of the box. For us that’s a fun challenge but that’s not what steam is looking for from proton they want to distance themselves from windows (more gaben).
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Thats why proton is in beta. And proton is supposed to be plug and play with the whitelisted games
The windows gaming people will migrate themselves when they feel its time. For now lets focus on prepping the road for the journey here
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thats still not enough to call it a linux gaming win its all or nothing for linux to be taken seriously in gaming . i want this just as much as anyone here. work around outside of proton need to be sent in to steam to give the devs some more info. once proton is out of beta it needs to support ALL games or all the work we did here was for nothing. imo i will keep testing and such i just have a hope for my idealistic win for linux.
You realise what you’re asking is just ridiculous?
That you can run some Windows games in Linux is great enough, you’re saying it’s all or nothing. support all the games that were never made for Linux 100% without issues or it’s pointless.
That’s ridiculous. That attitude is the issue, not that some Windows games don’t work in linux.
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but its the truth, i love that games now work on linux that never did before but that doesn’t make this a linux golden age. its better then before but not enough to say linux gaming is ever going to be taken serious all it means is steam did the work for the devs. thats not a solution thats a band aid.
it’s going to take years and hundreds of devs and thousand of people helping with community involvement. There are several huge hurdles to jump before there is even a relatively even playing field…
i think you might be looking at this the wrong way.
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