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The Humble One Special Day Bundle is live with two nice Linux games
19 September 2018 at 11:44 am UTC

QuoteFor the native Linux games, you will be able to grab OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood in the $1 tier
Streets of Rage is a part of SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics which has a Linux version (but only Windows logo on its Steam store page for some reason).

DXVK 0.72 is out, bringing more configuration options and game fixes
15 September 2018 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

I thought games are more compatible with Proton rather than Wine+DXVK. But it turns out the opposite is true. I just tried Batman: AK with Wine Staging 3.15 and DXVK 0.72, and it works! The performance isn't too good though, about 30-50 fps with drops. I had 60-80 on Windows with max graphics settings, twice better. Well, at least I don't have to deal with Windows anymore to play my favourite games, GTA V and B:AK. Thank you YoRHa-2B for this.

DXVK 0.72 is out, bringing more configuration options and game fixes
15 September 2018 at 11:06 am UTC

Wait, Batman: Arkham Knight works on Linux with DXVK? It didn't when I tried and is rated "Borked" at SPCR.

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
9 September 2018 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think it doesn't matter and installing Wine isn't even necessary for using Proton. When you use winetricks (which is not a mandatory part of Wine), it changes some wineprefix which is separate from Wine installation any can later be used by any Wine installation in any WINEPATH. I don't know much about Wine though and can be wrong.

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
9 September 2018 at 3:34 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestHere's the command I ended up having to use to get xact installed in Hellblad. If you have it in the default path then just replace hellblad id number with yours and of course your username.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/ron/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/245280/pfx"WINEPATH="/home/ron/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7 Beta/dist/bin" winetricks xact
This didn't help either.

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
9 September 2018 at 9:44 am UTC

Quoting: lucifertdarkOpen Terminal from inside the 489830 folder & run WINEPREFIX=$PWD/pfx winetricks --force xact
Still the same result :(

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
9 September 2018 at 8:03 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickInstall XACT into the SKSE prefix, also make sure your open files size is large enough.
I tried to do that but unsuccessfully. I execute this:
WINEPREFIX=/2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx/ winetricks --force xact
and get this:
...
Executing cabextract -q -d /2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:/windows/syswow64 -L -F xactengine*.dll /2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:/windows/temp/_xact/*.cab
/2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:/windows/temp/_xact/*.cab: No such file or directory
...
Command cabextract -q -d /2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:/windows/syswow64 -L -F xactengine*.dll /2TB/Games/Linux/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:/windows/temp/_xact/*.cab returned status 1. Interruption.

Is there a way to install it manually by copying some files somewhere or something?

A writer for Forbes has been talking about the positives of switching to Linux
4 September 2018 at 3:30 pm UTC Likes: 21

Quoting: Mountain ManMy wife recently bought a new laptop with Windows preinstalled. I spent a couple of hours uninstalling all the junk software that it came with and configuring the OS so that she could use it.
But if you uninstall ALL junk from Windows, you'll get this:

Dealing with all sorts of amusing illnesses in Two Point Hospital, my thoughts
4 September 2018 at 3:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TcheyI played TH on Sega Genesis/Megadrive back in time
But it wasn't released on SMD, only on DOS, Windows and PlayStaion. I played the PlayStation version.

What are you playing this weekend?
2 September 2018 at 6:29 am UTC

Quoting: axredneck
Quoting: ageresStalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it.
If you haven't finished/played it then you'd better play with OGSE mod.
I tried it, and it crashes when I start a new game.