Linux - Steam Games. Sometimes work, sometimes dont?

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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This is for a couple of games in particular, but the WarHammer 40K - Dawn Of War games I am on about, specifically Dark Crusade and SoulStorm.

Now, I have a few PCs that I have toyed about with and trying out various distros just because I am bored mostly, but also Im simply .. Well, no, its cos Im bored.

Anyway, one thing I have noticed is that getting these games to work under Linux, seems to be a 100% random thing.

For example:-

My main Linux PC is an AMD 9590 in a SabreTooth 990FX Mobo with 32GB Corsair Dominator and AMD RX580 Graphics.

I did have SoulStorm running on that but the graphics were still not great ( RES was 1920x1080 but details were not as good as under windows )

So, I had a play with another PC and this time I used a GTX580 - nVidia seems to be better supported, or at least that has the nVidia drivers, so...

Didnt work?

Was it the card?

No, I put the card into the AMD and it worked on that.

Both machines were running Mint 18.3 KDE ( At the time )

Then put the ATI back into the main Linux machine and it stopped playing the game???

WTF?

I have tried this now on several distros and with several machiens and whether it plays or not, is absolutely random? So what can I possibly look at to find out why it does this?

I also need to note, that the game is NOT really supported but it does need to use that PROTOCOL thingy and yes, I have tried all versions of that too!

Any clues or is it just one of those things?
 
How are you running it? Are you running via Proton or via Lutris? Games can work differently depending upon the version of Proton and sometimes older games don't work so well with newer Proton releases. You might also want to download Proton-GE (Proton Glorious Eggroll).

AMD drivers tend to be included in the Linux kernel as they are doing a very good job of support with the open source of their software. NVidia are not so accommodating and I genuinely do wonder if you might have a better experience with an AMD GPU.

If you are having problems still, I'd suggest installing the latest release of Pop-OS on the computer and trying with that.
 
Proton Glorious EggRoll? LOL Ok, I will have a look at that!

AMD v nVIDIA
Yeah, my main Linux PC has an AMD Card. I was more specifically playing about and experimenting with nVidia v AMD
I am sticking to AMD as I simply prefer them to nVidia anyway. I have done for many years - Since the R9500 was able to Flash to 9700 and UnReal Tournament was the ONLY game that I cared for. LOL.

POP-OS.
I have tried POP-OS, but it was that rotten unity/Gnome crud and I absolutely hate that.

Oh, and I drink Coffee!
 
Already tried Manjaro KDE

For what it is worth, I am a bit of a hoarder...

I have.. Im just going to count...

69 different distros of Linux on my PC ( Not installed, just ISO Images ) and of course they are the distro, I have all the variants of each distro, KDE,Gnome,.XFCE,LXDE,Cinnamon,Mate and so on..325 ISOs in all.

I have tried many many many variations, some more than others.

I also have a stupid number of PCs too, god knows why, but it means that I have my main PCs with my main O/Ses.

I am a bit of a pleb really and Iwant to use KDE so much, but I simply dont like Plasma... KDE 4 yeah, Plasma NO! I dont like Gnome 3, but love Gnome 2 and so I love Cinnamon and Mate.

My favourite distro of all is Sabayon KDE however thats been a complete **** to install since v15 and I think 15.3 I got installed and never been able to since, on any of the PCs I have tried ( Not many )

So I have been mostly sticking to Mint cos that simply works with only a couple of games being the whore to me.
 
I too liked Sabayon but like you said, fudged its self to many times for me when I tried many moons ago.

At first I wasn't keen on plasma but after several iterations it's made a good DE. To be honest said the same about the jump from KDE3 to KDE4 at the time :cry:

Have you gave Mageia a go ? A lot of the Mandrake devs started IIRC .
 
Mageia is another one I have and yeah, I did try it, but like 99% of the others, I just never gelled.

Ill chuck on the ISO to have a play in a few minutes, but only to "Have a look" on a VM.

I agree with the KDE upgrades to a point... I loved KDE 2 didnt quite gel with 3 but liked 4 but then I found myself wanting to go back to 3 even though I didnt like it too much.

I utterly hated Gnome right from the off but then I used Gnome for a bit and found that I liked it... A LOT.

Now I hate it, or at least Gnome 3 and the unity stuff, but I think this is all mostly down to simply not liking change, but then loving the fact that the Linux lets me have so much choice, so a weirdo that I am there!
 
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