Early this morning Valve officially rolled out a big update to the Steam Play whitelist, which indicates Windows games that work well with Steam Play's Proton.
Having titles in the whitelist, also means you don't need to go into Steam's settings and tick any extra boxes as they will just show up for everyone with the ability to install and play on Linux.
Sending out a Twitter post to announced it, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais announced "Just pushed a Steam Play whitelist update to reflect current testing results" with a link to SteamDB which helps track it all down.
The list is reasonably long, some notable titles include:
- Castle Crashers
- The Witness
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
- Overcooked
- Guacamelee! 2
It's going to be interesting to see how Valve eventually show support for Steam Play directly on Steam store pages, that's the next step that I'm looking forward to.
A pretty exciting start to a weekend wouldn't you say?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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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)
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
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Quoting: ziabiceI suspect is a LLVM bug...It is, LLVM 7 fixes that (and Arch already rolled that out).
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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.
It does work absolutely flawlessly, by the way.
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Quoting: DuncWasn't Castle Crashers already on the whitelist? I was under the impression it was the only whitelisted game I owned. :)No it was not on the original list, which can be seen here.
It does work absolutely flawlessly, by the way.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 6, 2018
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.
and what is the criteria for to choose those specific games and not other games.
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stretch611 Oct 6, 2018
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 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.
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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
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI just want to know what is the criteria used for to whitelist games...Probably just the favourite games of people who does Proton testing at Valve.
and what is the criteria for to choose those specific games and not other games.
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Quoting: elmapulso...
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.
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI 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.;)
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