You have. Download Protonge manually from https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases and unpack the archive into “~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/”. Each Proton version has its own folder. Restart Steam then you can use Proton GE from there. Its like Wine GE, but optimized for Steam.

And what games are you playing? You can also lookup each game in Protondb as linked before. Protondb is a database of user reports, with often useful information.

What games? Which Steam Proton and Wine-GE versions do we talk about?

BTW there is also a Proton GE and you can use it in Steam as well. Just saying. Some games do need a specific Steam Proton version, either an older or newer one, such as Proton Experimental. Some games are only working with Proton GE (or Wine GE).

And you can always lookup if the game works, by looking into reports from Protondb website (user generated).

Imagine playing Halo, but with the Portals from the game Portal added. They seem to have some abilities like in hero shooter too, but I still have to play the game to know to what degree.

Well, I really want to play the game and hope it will work in the future. If I get banned now, then this future would not be possible for me anymore. Even if I can’t play it right now, I care about not getting banned in this game. The game plays like Halo, but has Portals, a little bit of hero abilities and a good map creator; perfect!

Edit: BTW I have a Steam Deck and could play it on the device, if nothing else works on PC. So by trying to get around on PC and getting banned would take this away from me too.

The thing is, they seem to not block Linux entirely, as it runs (and is officially supported) on Steam Deck. From the outside it looks like the anticheat tool works only on certified devices or configurations when they use Linux. Maybe this is the first game that only works with a specific Kernel. This would make sense, as this is a Kernel level anticheat that would only work with known or whitelisted Kernels in example.

I’m just speculating here, so don’t want to spread false information in case this is wrong speculation. But the official support for Steam Deck is correct.

I wouldn’t experiment with renaming or deleting such files to trick an anticheat tool. There could be a potential to flag and ban a player account. It’s too risky to me.

We assume its probably the anticheat, because its a Kernel level anticheat. Maybe it only works with an unaltered image of the Steam Deck OS and Kernel. This is highly speculative and it might be just a bug on the game or Proton side or something. This is still beta and the first day, so they collect information and see what the users have to say. Hopefully they will address this issue. At the very least being open and explain the situation, so we know for sure.

SteamDeck=1 %command% was the first thing I tried. Marvel Rivals has not a similar problem, because Marvel Rivals supports general Linux and the Steam Deck. The reason why the SteamDeck variable is needed is, because with a recent updated of the game the launcher does not work properly in Proton. And in Steam Deck mode the launcher is not used.

But with Splitgate 2 it seems like they deliberately does only support the Steam Deck itself. So setting a variable to trick them is not enough. At first glance it looks like a similar problem, but only the outcome is the same. The problem is different.

For me game is running. I have the newest update of Marvel Rivals Version 20250515. In the past it would not run with Proton Experimental and had to switch to Proton 10.0-1 (beta) (still do). Also had to add SteamDeck=1 %command%, to make it run again. It runs right now as I write.

Sometimes after a system update I need to restart, otherwise games don’t launch. So maybe do system update now and restart entire PC and operating system, if you didn’t already.

Well its one thing to tell that in comments like this, and another thing to prove it with benchmarks. And not all games are CPU limited, it depends.

Why? Full RayTracing with highest quality settings on some games is even for a 5090 too much. So it makes sense to play them at lower resolution (in example with upscaling, but its still lower res). Especially if you aim for very high FPS. Maybe for some games you aim to play at 240 fps, in which case 1440p or even 1080p is the only option, not 4k. Depending on the games.

And if you are not even considering to play at lower res, you might be interested in how it compares to other cards you already own and play at 1080p. Just to get an idea of how much it improves. Its not a wrong market, you just don’t see his or her use case.

Seems to run for some. Here is a Steam Community for Assetto Corsa EVO search term “Linux”: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3058630/discussions/search/?q=linux And for future reference I link to ProtonDB too, but right now there is no report there: https://www.protondb.com/app/3058630

That’s great to hear. As you have used Linux on your Thinkpad, you know what awaits you. And that not everything is compatible. So no need for a lecture or standard disclaimer from me. I wish you good luck.

Although about PopOS, they are currently working on a completely new desktop environment and have a few betas out. Maybe with their next big release they will ditch Gnome (their current desktop environment) and use their own solution. I thought letting you know if you weren’t following the news. And I don’t know how much you like Gnome.

I didn’t know WINE could do that and play Win3x games! For anything Windows 3.x and DOS related games, I would have used DOSBox emulator. I use it for DOS and even Win98 games, and have to setup it for Win3x yet.

Sidenote: BTW I have looked what the game Castle of the Winds is about. Man its from Epic. This company was such a cool company back then.

Great to hear you got it working (somewhat). I bet it will get worse and worse with the backwards compatibility of Windows with each iteration. You are Win10, its probably worse in Win11, because they stray further and further from god. On the other hand you have WINE and Proton that gets better and better every day on Linux.

I have a top spec gaming PC now running Windows 10, but there are things this Thinkpad can do that my big PC can’t.

Your big PC could do the same. ;-)

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1295660/discussions/0/

I have looked at the Steam discussion board for the game and people seem to be unhappy (based on the official streaming to showcase): a) Denuvo is planned to be integrated (not sure if plans have changed), and b) game looks and plays much different than any Civ so far. So Denuvo might still be integrated, but game can be perfectly playable on Linux. Denuvo is not an anti cheat system, its an anti theft system against piracy.

Interesting. Thanks for digging up.

No, I’m not that guy. I also didn’t know about what the guy did, before you telling me here. Officially there was no plans on adding Kernel level anticheat to the game, right? So what the guy did was not based on real information. Or did I miss an official statement?

The previous Civilization games are playable on Linux, so its not really locking out Linux users. But I guess the online part does not work? I never played in online modes, so didn’t lookup or knew this.

I would totally ignore these specs for the moment. It’s not telling much.

System specs are meaningless without knowing what the terms refer to; the context is missing. Like what resolution and fps we are talking about here? What level of settings (graphics and such) are used for “minimum” or “recommended”? The problem why the devs do not a “proper” specs sheet is, because they could be liable for it. I mean the more detailed the list is, the more people get angry if it does not work as expected on their machine. Also nowadays we have handheld PCs like the Steam Deck, which is pretty standardized hardware. They could provide detailed information how well it runs on a device like this or if its not playable / supported.

That is longer that expected. But I don’t know what I even expected. Laptops can reach those times too (although laptops have bigger batteries).

Pre-configured hardware with pre-installed Linux is the best way to expand. The technical side of driver support and gaming support is solved already (besides one specific kind of games, but thats another topic for another day). The biggest hurdle for people is to try Linux and set it up themselves. Only a few nerds go this far. It’s amazing right now!

It would be nice to have direct comparison between Windows and SteamOS on same hardware, performance wise and also how many purchases.

OH right, now it works for me too. Must be a temporary thing. Thanks for the reply, everything fine now.

Edit: All fine now. It was only a temporary thing.

I get a bad Gateway error. Does this link work for anyone? Or did Valve take the document down / private?

It only shows up when you use the dropdown menu to filter for Linux only. Then you also will see Freedesktop SDK (Flatpak). For whatever reason Flatpak and SteamOS Holo are ignored if you look at all operating systems instead Linux only. If you compare the numbers, they are not added to Archlinux or anything else.

Where is this stated?? If that was the case, the difference to other distros would be much higher. SteamOS is usually listed separately as HoloISO: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

The survey is just accepting to send some auto collected data. There is no “real survey” involved.

Does Archlinux include SteamOS? Why isn’t SteamOS not listed, but several versions of Ubuntu is listed separately? Wasn’t SteamOS making up about half the Steam users using Linux? I would like to see multiple ways and options to enable and disable for Linux grouping, and longer lists. It may be enough for MacOS or Windows, but not for Linux.