Windows Games on Steam for Linux. [Proton client Testing grounds]

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System:

  • CPU: Intel® Xeon® CPU E31240 @ 3.30GHz
  • GPU: Sapphire Toxic Radeon R9 270X
  • RAM: 24GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz
  • OS: Arch Linux Linux 4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
  • DE/WM: plasma-desktop 5.13.4-1 / kwin 5.13.4-1
  • GPU Drivers: xf86-video-amdgpu 18.0.1-2
  • OpenGL: mesa 18.1.6-1
  • Vulkan: vulkan-radeon 18.1.6-1
  • LLVM: llvm-libs 6.0.1-4 clang 6.0.1-2

Games:

:white_check_mark: - Works, and does so with no problem.
:ballot_box_with_check: - Works well, but has some minor problems
:large_orange_diamond: - Works, but has some major problems
:x: - Doesn’t work at all.

  • :white_check_mark: The Ultimate DOOM - starts, works
  • :white_check_mark: Final DOOM - starts. works
  • :white_check_mark: Master levels of DOOM - starts. works
  • :white_check_mark: Doom II: Hell on Earth - starts. works
  • :x: Doom 2016 (OpenGL) - doesn’t start, FATAL ERROR: wglCreateContextAttribsARB failed
  • :white_check_mark: Doom 2016 (Vulkan) - starts, and runs great
  • :x: Quake (GL) - doesn’t start
  • :white_check_mark: Quake (Software) - starts, works
  • :x: Quake 2 (GL) - doesn’t start
  • :large_orange_diamond: Quake 2 (Software) - starts, crashed when tried to draw water overlay
  • :x: Quake Champions - starts, FREEZES WHOLE OS IN MAIN MENU, REQUIRING REBOOT
  • :x: DiRT 3 Complete Edition - starts, stuck at logo screen
  • :x: For Honor - doesn’t start, uplay error.
  • :ballot_box_with_check: Binding Of Issac - starts, works well, but crashes on full screen
  • :white_check_mark: Stronghold HD - starts, works
  • :x: DLC Quest - doesn’t start, suspect: .NET
  • :white_check_mark: Rise of The Argonauts - starts, works and works with 360 controller
  • :large_orange_diamond: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - starts, works well but freezes after Alt-Tab
  • :x: Operation Flashpoint: Red River - doesn’t start, suspect: .NET
  • :white_check_mark: Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition - starts, works
  • :x: DayZ - doesn’t work 19:30:59: Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (31).
  • :white_check_mark: Source Filmmaker - starts, works

Notes:

Games that worked were played 5-10 mins.

The classic Dooms are ran under DOSBOX, you could just get the native one and play them on linux. Or get any open-source engine and copy the WADs. The latter also applies to Quake 1 and 2 (copy the PAKs).

Thoughts:

SAD. Really wanted to play DIRT 3 and Quake Champions…

I think I could make more of them work if I’d tinker, but I wanted to see the out of the box experience.

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