The only problem is some anticheats and older games. Whenever the boys and I wanna play Battlefield I gotta switch to Windows, but besides that it’s basically fine.
Nah, I’ve been trying to get the Sims 2 ultimate collection to run on mint for a while now, to no avail. I know it’s possible, but all the necessary links etc. have died, and the internet archive hasn’t been helpful yet. Once the people making running older games possible stop doing it, it just… becomes impossible, unless you can make those things yourself.
To an extent, yes. The oldest Windows game that I’d still probably want to play legitimately is probably Thief: The Dark Project, from 1998. It was made for DirectX version 6. Naturally, it will just not run on modern systems, Windows or Linux.
There are patches that bring it to DX9. It has an internal frame rate limiter to something weird, 90 fps or something. The weakest machine I have available can push that about at 4K while apparently still in full energy saving mode.
Proton’s DX9 emulation is apparently a bit rough, but most of the DX9 games you’d want to emulate are just fine with ‘brute force’. There’s a couple of problematic games - CS:GO, for instance - where the efficiency matters.
The only problem is some anticheats and older games. Whenever the boys and I wanna play Battlefield I gotta switch to Windows, but besides that it’s basically fine.
A lot of older games run better on Linux. Lots of older games that don’t even work on Windows anymore
Huh. I would have thought that older games would run better than newer ones.
Nah, I’ve been trying to get the Sims 2 ultimate collection to run on mint for a while now, to no avail. I know it’s possible, but all the necessary links etc. have died, and the internet archive hasn’t been helpful yet. Once the people making running older games possible stop doing it, it just… becomes impossible, unless you can make those things yourself.
To an extent, yes. The oldest Windows game that I’d still probably want to play legitimately is probably Thief: The Dark Project, from 1998. It was made for DirectX version 6. Naturally, it will just not run on modern systems, Windows or Linux.
There are patches that bring it to DX9. It has an internal frame rate limiter to something weird, 90 fps or something. The weakest machine I have available can push that about at 4K while apparently still in full energy saving mode.
Proton’s DX9 emulation is apparently a bit rough, but most of the DX9 games you’d want to emulate are just fine with ‘brute force’. There’s a couple of problematic games - CS:GO, for instance - where the efficiency matters.