Quoting: GuestInstead of telling you to go browse through a bunch of other posts, I'll outline *exactly* what I did to get my GTA V to work, get past social club and into the game (On Nvidia).

Did you actually need all of these? All I had to do was creating a .conf file and adding "DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=path_to_config/gta5.conf %command%" to the launch options.

I'm playing Windows games today with Steam Play:
Spelunky - I played it in 2013 when it was released but wasn't able to beat the final boss. A very addictive game.
Serious Sam 2. It may be the worst Serious Sam game but still fun to play. I had finished few levels in Wine, then it stopped working after one of Wine updates. It works fine with Proton, but performs bad, at about 30 fps.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it. Well, since it is oficially supported for Steam Play, I have no reason for not playing it now. I had been playing Clear Sky though (and didn't finish it).
GTA V with that workaround desribed above. It turns out there's no Steam Cloud and RGSC has not kept my savings either, and I lost 46 hours of playing. Three years passed since I played it, so I forgot all the story anyway, but I'm still angry.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I played it back in 2006 and remember it as a very scary game. I heard it runs very bad on Windows newer than XP, but on Linux I haven't experienced any crashes so far.

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Quoting: Guest(and that's not even mentioning the fact they gifted people Sonic 2 for the 2 week delay on PC, which I heard caused issues with some people trying to refund the game for having denuvo)

I haven't heard about that but probably issues were caused by the delay, not playing a bonus game. Valve doesn't allow to refund a game if it was bought more than two weeks ago even if that was a pre-order. This happened to me once. I had pre-ordered Armikrog, it was delayed for two months and then released as an unfinished broken piece of crap. I tried to refund it, and even if I was playing for less than an hour, I couldn't do this. That't why I don't pre-order games anymore.

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It's worth noting that the Windows version has Denuvo (and is already cracked).

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I think Wine and Proton should be separate questions.

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Quoting: jardonAm I the only one that hasnt gotten a controller to work in any proton game? In general my controller(s) working is hit or miss. I've tried 360 controllers, PS4, and Steam controllers.

Try to launch Steam in Big Picture Mode. Prey (the new one) recognizes my Steam controller (but no others) only if launched from BPM. I have no problem with controllers in other games though.

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Quoting: GuestSteam has been Microsoft's de facto gaming store for 15 years. Remember GFWL? Who should be bowing down to whom?

I guess that's why Quantum Break, Microsoft's breakout, DX12, UWP, Windows Store, Windows 10, Xbox 'Play Anywhere' flagship title is on Steam.

... and I just bought it on Linux, so that counts as a Steam for Linux sale—and it runs flawlessly on Steam Play!!!

"Thanks Microsoft Studios! This looks like a pretty good game." ;)

I wonder what would happen if some publishers (Microsoft) don't want their games on Proton. Could they prohibit for Valve to make them Proton-compatible?

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Quoting: RoosterAs far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

According to the compatibility chart, you should be able to play the original but not the Special Edition.

Both versions work in Wine, but I don't have any voice sounds there. I tried the Special Edition with Proton, still the same problem. Actually, the SE works even better then the original Skyrim. Better performance, better graphics, has controller support.

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Quoteattempt to type "Hello", but it will end up as "Hheelllloo"

I remember I had this problem in Lazarus IDE few years ago. I solved it by removing ibus.

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Quoting: Scoopta"Ported." Everyone makes the FOSS argument but the entire game is proprietary so what does it matter if the layer is FOSS? If you don't have 100% free software then you're not in control anyway. That proprietary code could still do anything it wanted. As far as existing ports using layers. A compile time layer is not the same as a runtime layer but even still I do avoid most AAA ports for this reason anyway. I only occasionally buy AAA Linux games I'm extremely interested in. I mostly stick to Unity and UE4 games which are as native on Linux as they are on any platform.

I don't understand you. If your biggest anxiety is proprietary code, why do you use said Unity and UE4 games? They are not open-source. If it's about performance, well, Wine, DXVK and hardware is still evolving. I get solid 60 fps in Dark Souls 2 with DXVK, a year ago I wouldn't have believed this could be possible. Rise of the Tomb Raider on Vulkan sometimes performs better than it did on DX11 and DX12.

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Quoting: ScooptaMaybe it's just me but I personally think it'll be a dark day in the Linux world when devs target Windows and just expect wine or some other compatibility layer to be used.

Yeah, sure, it would be much worse than now, when devs target Windows and just don't care about anything beside Windows. *sarcasm*

EVERY big modern software uses compatibility layers in some ways. At least we would know it's FOSS Wine and DXVK, not something unknown and proprietary.

Imagine this situation:
1. Games on Steam get Linux support,
2. Ubisoft (for example) watch significant income from Linux users,
3. They don't want to share that money with Gaben,
4. Uplay and some games there get ported to Linux.

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