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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (27 children)

In my personal experience, the only games that don't work are those that explicitly choose not to :

  • Fortnite
  • PUBG
  • Roblox
  • Valorant

I'm not much into competitive games myself, so the only one that's inconvenient in this list to me is Roblox. There are a few really fun games on their platform that I wish I could play on Steam Deck, as used to be possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I play a lot of Space Engineers, and it randomly crashes... No idea what's causing it.

    And Space Engineers 2 just doesn't launch for me.

    There's likely a config option that could fix things, but I don't know it.

    Every other game I play is fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know about protondb already? Gives a good list of potential fixes if you come across issues, it's been a godsend on the rare occasions something doesn't work first try

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know. Tried a few things from that site, but no luck on SE, and SE2 is under active development so I'm waiting on it for a bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fair, good luck with it. Just had to figure out that a drive from a windows install was causing huge permissions issues and any game installed on it wasn't executing. Sometimes the problems can be really obtuse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you changed which version of proton it uses? It's in the compatibility options for the game, sometimes going to an older version solves some issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For SE2, it's likely a version issue. But that game is under active development, so I'm waiting on it.

    For SE1, well that one is a bit of a mystery... It probably isn't. I have a few mods.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's because of the awful spaghetti code that is the basis of Space Engineers. I gave up on that game years ago, because those devs were vibe coding before it was cool, and it shows.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I will say, the game is remarkably stable compared to what it was a few years ago. Especially pistons and rotors.

    But yes, it still crashes randomly. About once or twice an hour.

    And I got SE2 running. No crashes there, but I don't like creative mode, so play SE2 much less.

    I am excited for the upcoming SE2 survival mode

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I'm not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it's really frustrating how I don't see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    really sucks that League doesn't work . . . I know some people who play and the fact that it used to work just sours the pain.

    I guess, at least Dota 2 works? I know they are very different, but I'd say similar enough and worth a shot so long as one isn't too tied to LoL.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I'm not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Rocket League as well; it's the only reason I haven't gone full Linux for gaming.

    ...you'd think after 8+ years of playing I'd be bored, but it's just fun.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Rocket League works on linux? Unless something changed recently, because I used to play it on my Steam Deck all the time.

    https://www.protondb.com/app/252950

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

    Rocket league is inside fortnight now.

    Basically they want fortnite to be a complete (malware) gaming package with every game inside it sp youre tied to epic.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I played Rocket League yesterday on Bazzite through Steam without issues

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