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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      I wouldn’t call it working… And it’s only older titles. Newer ones also don’t. Thank you anti cheat for preventing us from playing shit games

  • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    69·
    2 days ago

    By now you can safely assume that all games work with Linux. The very few exceptions that don’t are those games that explicitly block Linux gamers.

    • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      2 days ago

      The only issues I’ve had are games with anti cheat. Otherwise everything works amazing.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        32·
        2 days ago

        There are anti-cheat games that do work, the ones that don’t are only because the developers choose it.

        • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          Oh absolutely. I wasn’t implying all anti cheat games don’t work, but the games that don’t work are anti cheat games.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          19 hours ago

          Yeah I have been there to troubleshoot but no matter which one I try it crashes immediately or after a few minutes of gameplay.

          I am running Flatpak Steam, using Niri, streaming to a Steam Link. Might have something to do with it. I haven’t yet tried local gameplay. Other games stream fine with the same setup though.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        What happens when you do that? And does doing that on windows work? Because it sounds like an incompatibility between the steam virtual keyboard and Skyrim.

          • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Because you brought up a non-proton related issue. It’s highly unlikely this is proton related, this is an issue on how the steam virtual keyboard and Skyrim interact, and since the keyboard doesn’t cause issues on any other game I think it’s very likely the culprit is Skyrim, and if that’s the case I want to know if the issue also happens on Windows.

            Is it possible that the issue is within proton? Yes, but the problem you presented can be in multiple other places that proton can’t touch. For example if the game crashes on windows too then proton is working correctly, and even if it doesn’t it can still be something else besides proton, e.g. steam closing the keyboard in a different manner, Skyrim has had a famous bug where it crashes when you alt+tab away from it and come back on Windows for a long time, and opening a virtual keyboard on top of the game and going back is essentially alt+tabing, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this is the same bug in Skyrim showing up with a different face.

            PS: out of curiosity I went and loaded my old prisoner save, and named the character which is how many people reported the bug and it just worked, so even if this used to be an issue, doesn’t seem like it is anymore.

          • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            22 hours ago

            Try pulling up the virtual keyboard in Windows while playing Skyrim. I’d be surprised if the results were helpful.

          • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            That’s like pointing at an Android-based smart fridge, saying it doesn’t run Skyrim, and saying it’s a Linux issue, because android is based on Linux.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            9·
            1 day ago

            The virtual keyboard isn’t used while gaming in regular desktop Linux. That is a steam issue, specifically a steamdeck issue since a regular desktop would use the physical keyboard to type in Skyrim.

            I know about the OS the deck is running and that it’s an arch form, but it’s not a Linux issue, it’s a steam deck issue since non steamdeck desktop Linux pcs don’t have that issue because they use a physical keyboard.

            What you are saying is like me saying that the inability to read Chinese is a human issue because I can’t read it and in human. Naaah.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            9·
            1 day ago

            That doesn’t make it a Linux issue. It’s an issue with some component that is in a Linux distribution, but it probably has nothing to do with the Linux operating system. It sounds like it’s specifically some component of the Deck at fault, not a part of Linux.

      • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        when you open skyrim, go to the mods section, hit left bumper when there to open the search. it will bring up the virtual keyboard.

        now just simply exit the menu and start the game. and the keyboard will work without crashing the game.

        its a workaround, but I’m used to doing it whenever I load up skyrim.

        enjoy! <3

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Chrono Trigger

    Wouldn’t an emulator of either the snes or Playstation version work better than the PC port? 🤔

    Does the newer remaster even have anything worthwhile? I personally do not like the UI compared to the OG.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Even if this is the worst way to play it, it’s still worth them fixing whatever the issue was. It’s not like it’s exclusive to that game. Whatever it was doing that wasn’t working as intended likely effects other games too. It was an issue with how Proton translated it, and the fix should apply to any other similar usage of whatever graphics library it was using.

    • ErableEreinte@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I wouldn’t play the PS1 port, because of the long losing loading times.
      I agree with that article though, that the best version to play is the DS port. The Steam release is okay, it’s simply the easiest to buy nowadays.

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      SNES in my opinion is the superior version. and having access to better saves is also appreciated cause some fights can get long.

        • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I admit I tend to avoid ps1 emulation because it tends to look… tilted kinda? like the polygons seem to always be out of whack.

          but maybe its a bit smoother if it doesn’t have to generate any 3d images or textures. I have not played the ps1 version so I am not entirely sure if it suffers from that or not.

          • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            That tilted look is due to the PS1 graphics hardware lacking perspective correction for projected textures. It gave its games a very distinctive look.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Well it’s a 2D game so the PS1’s quirks of 3D rendering don’t even apply.

            I know what you mean, tho. That unique look PS1 has because it didn’t use floating point integers for the vertices, so whenever the camera moves, the models look like they are shifting/wiggling as vertices jump from point to point in the most unsmooth manner possible?

            • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              yes that’s what I mean! interesting that it works that way. also its good to hear it runs well on ps1.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I heard it wasn’t very good. Just a port of the mobile version with a lot of serious flaws. Better to emulate the SNES version.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I haven’t come across any serious issues. Although, I’m not a hard-core retro-supremacist.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      When I read Call of duty cold war, I thought it was a typo, pretty sure the call of duty’s post mw2019 run a rootkit anticheat that also happens to disable the games on linux in general. Maybe there’s a workaround now and Activision lost it?