Valve are already pushing ahead with updates to Steam Play's Proton with a beta channel

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: jardonController issues

Interesting to read that your controller works with BP but not with games. Is your system updated? What distribution? Have you tried another one [or a Steam flatpak]? What kernel version? Have you tried both with and without the Steam Runtime? Did you disable the Steam overlay? Did you open an issue on Valve's Github? Is it a nonstandard controller?

That's all I can think of in the top of my head :)

Forgot to check
ls -l /dev/uinput
I've found if those permissions aren't right, most games won't work but BP will.

waiting for a Proton bundle from humble bundle or one of the others... it will come.

Quoting: lovelycuppateawaiting for a Proton bundle from humble bundle or one of the others... it will come.

The Humble SteamPlay ReBundle of the Broken Humble Indie Bundle Promises

This is so incredibly great! Many titles are already working and the project just started! I'm really excited how this will develop but i'm sure it will change a lot in the (linux-)gaming scene.

Ho. Lee. Fuck.

I've been on vacation for a week where the wireless was so shite I just gave up trying. This morning I read about Steam Play and Proton, so I'm just now arriving to the dumbstruck party.

This is the bridge we've been needing to get past the "small market share vs. more AAA titles" issue. This will let the Windows escapees leave at last. This will let me buy and play many titles (Nier: Automata, por exemplo) without feeling guilty about it counting as a Windows sale.

This is the biggest news to hit Linux gaming since Valve announced SteamOS.

I feel like I'm gonna cry.

They are going to get so much money from me in the coming year.


Last edited by Nanobang on 28 August 2018 at 1:01 pm UTC

Quoting: NanobangHo. Lee. Fuck.

I've been on vacation for a week where the wireless was so shite I just gave up trying. This morning I read about Steam Play and Proton, so I'm just now arriving to the dumbstruck party.

This is the bridge we've been needing to get past the "small market share vs. more AAA titles" issue. This will let the Windows escapees leave at last. This will let me buy and play many titles (Nier: Automata, por exemplo) without feeling guilty about it counting as a Windows sale.

This is the biggest news to hit Linux gaming since Valve announced SteamOS.

I feel like I'm gonna cry.

They are going to get so much money from me in the coming year.

I was going to say this is the first time Wine has been incorporated into a commercial product, but I guess that's not true, since there are several wrapped binaries out there, and Crossover's stuff.

But yeah, pretty exciting. I need faster bandwidth, then I'd help testing with my decently sized library. But unfortunately it took me hours to download Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and it wouldn't even start. 51GB download for nothing...

Well, Valve have updated my Steam client to the Proton-enabled version already. I hadn't jumped ship onto the Beta release, like many others here did. I was thinking: Okay, time to install DOOM (which I own already). But then, it is late at night, and we all know it works.

One game I really really wanted on Linux was The Legend Of Grimrock II which was released to Windows only. I played and completed the first game in the series, The Legend Of Grimrock, natively on Linux. Why oh why did they not release the second on Linux?

Well, it is a relatively small install, not much more than 1GB hard drive space. Installed it, played it for an hour, no glitches, all working beautifully. Wow! This is less than a week after Valve released the Proton (WINE incorporated into Steam) tech as a Beta. Now I'm playing a Windows game with it in the Official Steam client (for Linux).

Big Thumbs Up!!!!! :)

Thanks for the new, g000h!
I didn't know that Proton was included in the official Steam Client... That means only one thing: It's working!

Quoting: g000hWell, Valve have updated my Steam client to the Proton-enabled version already. I hadn't jumped ship onto the Beta release, like many others here did.

Yep, I run the "stable" (non-beta) version of Steam on my lappy and much to my surprise, I just got the update a minute ago too!

It's great to see Valve Software making a Real World effort towards getting more of their catalog available to Linux gamers and if they keep at it (by which I mean working towards getting most of the Steam catalog working via WINE within Steam), I'll certainly be spending a LOT more money in Steam... Admittedly, I'll always buy a game from GOG.com first if it's available over there (because of the DRM-free thing) - but like it or not, Steam has LOT bigger catalog and GOG.com tend to drag their feet when adding new "Linux" titles to their catalog.

Anyway, the list of "supported" games at the time of writing is (there's an option in settings to enable this for all games, which is disabled by default):

• Beat Saber


• Bejeweled 2 Deluxe


• Doki Doki Literature Club!


• DOOM


• DOOM II: Hell on Earth


• DOOM VFR


• Fallout Shelter


• FATE


• FINAL FANTASY VI


• Geometry Dash


• Google Earth VR


• Into The Breach


• Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012


• Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013


• Mount & Blade


• Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword


• NieR: Automata


• PAYDAY: The Heist


• QUAKE


• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl


• Star Wars: Battlefront 2


• Tekken 7


• The Last Remnant


• Tropico 4


• Ultimate Doom


• Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade


• Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm

And the announcement from the Steam changelog is over here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561


Last edited by Cyba.Cowboy on 29 August 2018 at 4:23 am UTC

Sweet! Google Earth VR (if you guys have never played with it) is freaking awesome!

So it has an implementation of Street View, but since it's like taking a flat map and making it 3D it's warped as hell, and looks much like the first Silent Hill game...

Also grabbing the earth and flying over it is pretty awesome.