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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So anyways, I've been playing Baldurs Gate and Genshin on Linux and it's pretty dope

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The steam deck being on a Linux architecture really pushed this forward. Go Linux! And go ARM!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Steam deck is arm? How the hell did I miss that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That didn't sound right to me since i knew it was AMD. but long story short, no it's x86 64 bit. It's an APU. The CPU portion is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I knew that running windows and Linux on arm is weird still especially the latter so that makes more sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No it’s not ARM. But the arm platform is really promising.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valheim works like a charm too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Valheim doesn't work anywhere like a charm, Windows included. They like certain nVidia cards but other than that it's one of the worst optimized games I had disfortune to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It works fine if you're the chosen one.

I can play it fine in my machine, both windows and Linux, but most of my friends can't get it to work anywhere close to fine.

It's also terrible on steam deck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It runs fine for me on Linux, same as it does in Windows, always has since release. I am using an Nvidia card though, so maybe I lucked out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From my experience it's almost luck based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thats unfortunately true.What I ment was that it runs much better than windows that tend to BSOD if I'm lucky or shut down my computer after a couple of minutes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

genshin works on Linux now? I thought it's anticheat wasn't compatible with proton

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They actually made the anti cheat compatible. You just run the exe through wine-ge (I use lutris for that) and it just works. Nothing is modified. Lutris installer also has an installer script that just runs a clean unmodified exe from mihoyo's site.

I've been running it since 3.8 just fine, everything just works in it. Apparently it's been supported since 3.5.

Avoid AnAnimeGame Launcher, that is the launcher where they modify your files, which is completely unnecessary now that it's compatible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

woah, so I could even just add it to steam and use vanilla proton, huh? guess it's time to make space for another couple dozen gigs in my hard drive lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if the anticheat actually works that way or it just makes the game think it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably works that way, because it used to be a kernel level anti cheat which Wine can't fake. If an anti cheat runs in user space (which they should, kernel level is a massive security issue), then it should run with Wine just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ban hammer will come soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Personally, I don't see it coming anytime soon. I played genshin on linux for maybe over a year, and with the fps unlocker for maybe almost 2 years, on both windows and linux, and have never been banned.

I stopped playing on version a few months ago though.