There I am, in bed about to fall asleep when my phone lights up as I forgot to put it on silent. Thankfully so, as it turns out Valve just expanded the Steam Play whitelist and that's always a bit exciting.
What is the whitelist? These are titles that Valve are confident enough that work out of the box with no additional configuration required. You don't need to turn any extra options on, they should just be click and play like any other Linux game on Steam.
The list has some interesting titles in it as seen on SteamDB, here's the full list of new titles sorted in alphabetical order for easy viewing:
- 12 Labours of Hercules VII: Fleecing the Fleece (Platinum Edition)
- A Raven Monologue
- AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
- Acid Nimbus
- Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
- Bullet Candy
- DARK SOULS™ III
- Dungeon of the Endless™
- Endless Road
- Final DOOM
- FlatOut 2
- Glass Masquerade
- Hags Castle
- I’m not a Monster
- Jamestown
- LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game
- Nidhogg
- Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast
- PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition DX+
- Pathfinder Adventures
- Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid
- Poker Night at the Inventory
- Primordia
- SEPTEMBER 1999
- STAR WARS™ - Dark Forces
- STEINS;GATE
- Samorost 2
- South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
- Star Explorers
- Starless Night
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- The House of Da Vinci
- The Room
- Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
- Wuppo
- Year Walk
- Zoombinis
Some rather varied titles available there, on top of all the titles previously added. Good to see Valve reasonably quickly add more, as things do progress forward with projects like DXVK (which forms part of Steam Play) quite quickly.
I'm assuming they won't be adding anything on the store to indicate Steam Play, until they've done a some more rounds on adding to the whitelist. They want it to make an impact of course, so the bigger they can do this the better it's going to be.
Will you be checking out any of the newer titles added? The LEGO game is tempting, since my son would probably absolutely love it and there's simply no sign of any LEGO game of that sort making its way to Linux officially through a proper port so this is the next best thing.
Also, if you missed them, be sure to check out our previous interviews about Steam Play. I spoke to the creator of DXVK, Subset Games (FTL, Into the Breach), Ethan Lee (game porter) and more.
Hat tip to mphuZ on Twitter.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
officernice Nov 15, 2018
That aside, great to hear there's progress. Still waiting for KF2 and Quake Champions to be really good. :)
Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 15, 2018
Quoting: officerniceAm I the only one who finds it annoying that Valve does not have the official whitelist somewhere in Steam?
That is because Steamplay is not yet official; it is still in beta stage...
I hope it will be officially implemented in December.
Edit: A better fix was released after I wrote this comment.
Last edited by Brisse on 21 November 2018 at 1:09 pm UTC
Quoting: robvvI can't even get past the first boss in Dark Souls III. Clearly I am useless :-)
It's a pretty intimidating boss, especially if you haven't played the previous games. Dark Souls is that kind of franchise where you will have to learn from your mistakes and then repeat and repeat until you get it right. If it becomes too frustrating then there's some good online wiki's and YouTube walkthroughs to help out.
On a completely different note, the framerate issue seem to have a proper fix now. At least it's working on my end and I no longer have to use the previously mentioned hack.
Still, 2GB of VRAM won't cut it for Dark Souls 3, the game needs 4GB at the very least.
Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 21 November 2018 at 12:30 pm UTC
Quoting: robvvI can't even get past the first boss in Dark Souls III. Clearly I am useless :-)
Yeah, same here, it took me more than a week and quite some youtube films or so to get passed. Hint: Stay close to him :)
It is really a game you have to learn and understand. I don't think that I'll finish this game, I don't have the time for that, but I get to understand why this game has such a big fan base.
Skyrim and some other games working.
DARK SOULS™ III starts, but after start a New Game, it exit to desktop.
Anyone have same problem?
Quoting: deathxxxDARK SOULS™ III, does not work for me.You can get a log of this happening, see here
Skyrim and some other games working.
DARK SOULS™ III starts, but after start a New Game, it exit to desktop.
Anyone have same problem?
Then you should probably report it to github
Lots of gamers there, often find fixes for each other.
Quoting: deathxxxDARK SOULS™ III, does not work for me.
Skyrim and some other games working.
DARK SOULS™ III starts, but after start a New Game, it exit to desktop.
Anyone have same problem?
I do have the same problem as well, didnt find a solution yet
Last edited by wolfyrion on 20 December 2018 at 5:40 am UTC
Quoting: deathxxxDARK SOULS™ III, does not work for me.Make sure you're using the correct graphics drivers as described here. No, the Nvidia driver that ships with Ubuntu 18.04 or 18.10 is not good enough for Proton, it's too old.
Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 20 December 2018 at 10:29 am UTC
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