The Steam Play whitelist just had a large update including The Witness and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

One of the most notable titles on the list is Spelunky :) And Stick Fight The Game as well!

I was going to say "Commander Keen" instead..but that would make me feel really old..

..oh too late..darn it!

Did a double take when I saw that! I never did finish that game... Don't think I would have the patience for it now :P

Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ is the first game on the whitelist that's in my library. Pretty excited for that, I was really happy with how they remastered the games.

Monkey island is a great game series so I am glad they added Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™. I have them all on gog though.

Any idea why they would whitelist The Old Blood but not The New Order? Aren't they the same engine?

Awesome!

I'm curious why Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is whitlisted but The New Order isn't. They are basically the same game, with different campaigns, and very small changes.
They both performed 100% under WINE with no noticeable performance loss whatsoever. Is it different in Proton? I don't want to try TNO again since I already finished it not too long ago.

Not sure about Old Blood, but TNO had a pretty major issue (crashing in the menus)with AMD/mesa that only recently got a fix. It also has a major frame rate bomb in one area of the game on those drivers too.

Suprised Wolfenstein 2: New Collosus hasn't been added to their whitelist

Uses vulkan by default and I played the game from start to finish on Proton with zero issues

There's some kind of facial animation bug that affects AMD/mesa users.

I think this is a common problem, you need it working on all major graphics drivers beforw a game gets white listed.

Which is why I think The Witness got white listed so fast. It works perfectly from day 1 on all GPU.

Suprised Wolfenstein 2: New Collosus hasn't been added to their whitelist

Uses vulkan by default and I played the game from start to finish on Proton with zero issues

I played the demo today, and it runs very well but characters don't open their mouth when they speak. There's just some weird distortion around it.
I take it that you didn't see that on your gameplay?

I played the demo today, and it runs very well but characters don't open their mouth when they speak. There's just some weird distortion around it.

Known LLVM bug on AMD. This doesn't happen with the proprietary Vulkan driver, or on Nvidia.

This might as well be the main reason why it is not whitelisted yet, since the game should otherwise run flawlessly.


Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 6 October 2018 at 1:21 pm UTC

The other day, I was going through my Humble unclaimed keys (mainly due to the unclaimed ones being Windows titles). I've been claiming some of the ones that are appealing, and adding them to my Steam account. It'll be pretty cool being able to play many of them (easily) as Proton continues to improve. Also the fact that when they are played it shows up as Linux play is great too.

Some examples of games I claimed:
Rusty Lake: Roots, Domina, Western Press, Westerado: Double Barreled, Sam & Max season 1, Sam & Max season 2, Tower 57, The Sexy Brutale, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Telltale: Texas Hold 'Em, Puzzle Agent, Puzzle Agent 2, Poker Night at the Inventory, Killing Floor 2.

Quite happy that some of those claims turned out to be in the new Valve Supported List.

Meanwhile, I also own those two Wolfenstein titles (TOB, TNO), and I've been twitching to give one a go.

@YoRHa-2B & Doktor_Mandrake, thanks, got it.

Anyone knows if it's on the stable mesa drivers the fix for the old blood?

Mesa 18.2 should be fine, yes.

It’s weird to have the second HD remaster of Monkey Island and not the first.

Just bought Nier:Automata, I'm getting random GPU (and system) hangs in the first seconds of the first mission

I suspect is a LLVM bug... Running on Mesa 18.2.1 and (output from inxi) Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.26.0 4.18.9-1-MANJARO LLVM 6.0.1), with Proton 3.7-6

I suspect is a LLVM bug...

It is, LLVM 7 fixes that (and Arch already rolled that out).

Wasn't Castle Crashers already on the whitelist? I was under the impression it was the only whitelisted game I owned. :)

It does work absolutely flawlessly, by the way.

Wasn't Castle Crashers already on the whitelist? I was under the impression it was the only whitelisted game I owned. :)

It does work absolutely flawlessly, by the way.

No it was not on the original list, which can be seen here.

I just want to know what is the criteria used for to whitelist games...
and what is the criteria for to choose those specific games and not other games.

Fieldrunners 2...

I have that from a old Humble Bundle... It does have a linux native version though, but only through Humble, not Steam. It a Tower Defense game originally on iPhones than ported to Android, then windows.

When Fieldrunners 2 was new, it worked well except for a graphic glitch on a few of the later puzzle levels. So completely unlocking everything on linux ended up being impossible. I last played it about a year ago on linux, but I did not play to the point of seeing if that glitch was still present on different hardware... but it still worked well.

The first Fieldrunners was also ported to linux by Humble only... I tried it as well, and it had a clocking problem. As soon as you unpause the game, it is over in 2 seconds.

I now wonder who those people are that do the whitelist testing. Are some of those part of linux gaming community? I guess there are worse jobs to have :P

I just want to know what is the criteria used for to whitelist games...
and what is the criteria for to choose those specific games and not other games.

Probably just the favourite games of people who does Proton testing at Valve.

so...
they ignored our list
https://spcr.netlify.com/needs-testing
and they are going with steamdb list instead?

Seems like the majority of people submitting to that list didn't bother to read the prerequisites that Valve stipulated in the initial Steamplay announcement (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md). Lots of submissions from people running Nvidia with (steamplay) unsupported old drivers, or running AMD that are not using mandated PPA for required bleeding edge MESA and LLVM.

Valve should add a system check to not allow the steamplay option to be turned on, unless system requirements are met. Since Valve are the ones on the hook for supporting the games they add, you would think they would want to force people to abide by the system requirements. Otherwise they just get buried with invalid bug reports.

I just want to know what is the criteria used for to whitelist games...
and what is the criteria for to choose those specific games and not other games.

Simple. it must work on every system as if it would be a native game. It must work on Nvidia and AMD cards without any extra steps. That means massive testing and they can't just blindly trust fan sites with their anonymous tests.;)