• innermeerkat@jlai.lu
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    22 days ago

    Except for online games, pretty much all the other games work without any tinkering for me since at least a year

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      22 days ago

      Glad it works for you, I have the exact opposite exepeirenxe with most games (I rarely play online).

      To the point I sometimes feel like I’m taking crazypulls

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          22 days ago

          The one who probably provided me the most trouble and headache over the years is my favourite anno, 1404 history edition

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            21 days ago

            I usually check the proton DB website, to read the comments and see what people do to fix games and software.

            Just recently I used it to get old CAD software to run, had to lower the proton version to 6 or something and it worked.

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              21 days ago

              from all the times i tried to use protondb for help, for me, i can count the times it actually did on one hand

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            22 days ago

            I tried it running with portproton with pirated version works smooth no tinkering.Running on arch linux with hybrid graphics on nvidia mx940.

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        22 days ago

        Are you using Steam, or games from another service? I’ve only found 1 or 2 things that didn’t work immediately on Steam, but I have an absolute hell of a time getting anything off Steam to run, it’s like pulling teeth. Especially older Windows games; they’re just a non-starter most of the time.

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          22 days ago

          I just use a single Bottle’s bottle to install a bunch of off-Steam games. Contains many older windows dependencies; you have to install them yourself but they are found within the bottle’s settings.

          I remember trying to get Sims 3 working for my partner, it had all sorts of missing textures, kept crashing and had poor performance. Turns out you need a 4gb patch?? made from the community? Decided to toss it in my bottle and it works flawlessly. Have not tried dos games but may be worth a shot.

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          22 days ago

          From steam, to lutris to base wine to he to trying a couple back cause nothing else worked.
          Saw it all, did it all and I hazard a guess I soon will see it all again

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            22 days ago

            Is it possibly your distro? Maybe share what you’re using, and see if others are having different luck with it?

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              22 days ago

              the distros never made a difference sadly, endevouros, mint, i could fire up any one of em and they would have the same problem.

              some people theorized here it may be my ram (two different speeds) when i removed them it made games crash that didnt before