I tried playing a game outside steam for the first time yesterday. Two hours of trying to fix the stuttery low frame rate, missing textures, and crashes using Wine.
Then I found out there are really simple apps that use Proton just like Steam does, and you “open with” and it just works.
Maybe my experience is outdated. I had about a 20% success rate in getting Windows executables running in Wine without fiddling.
So for a while now I only game via the Steam client, since I don’t pirate or mod games anymore.
Maybe things have improved in recent years, I wouldn’t know.
If you actually mean wine, there’s your problem. You should run games with proton. I use lutris for cracked games with proton, and rarely have issues with games not working.
So far the only crack that hasn’t worked for me was Far Cry New Dawn. I’ve read on that one Russian forum that cracks for their newer Denuvo games don’t work on Linux… but I have serious doubts I’d even want to play their games based on their track record.
Unless you rely on pirated/cracked games, CAD or Adobe software, Linux will be a massive improvement to your computing experience.
I tried playing a game outside steam for the first time yesterday. Two hours of trying to fix the stuttery low frame rate, missing textures, and crashes using Wine.
Then I found out there are really simple apps that use Proton just like Steam does, and you “open with” and it just works.
What kind of issues do you expect with cracked games? Maybe I’m lucky, but the 20+ cracked games I tried worked perfectly fine in WINE.
Maybe my experience is outdated. I had about a 20% success rate in getting Windows executables running in Wine without fiddling.
So for a while now I only game via the Steam client, since I don’t pirate or mod games anymore.
Maybe things have improved in recent years, I wouldn’t know.
If you actually mean wine, there’s your problem. You should run games with proton. I use lutris for cracked games with proton, and rarely have issues with games not working.
So far the only crack that hasn’t worked for me was Far Cry New Dawn. I’ve read on that one Russian forum that cracks for their newer Denuvo games don’t work on Linux… but I have serious doubts I’d even want to play their games based on their track record.