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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games (arstechnica.com)
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But author warns that Direct3D 7 “is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.”

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[–] 56 points 1 year ago

It's D7VK

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    [–] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.

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

    Soon? Let's talk DOSBox

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

    For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there's 86Box.

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

    What can I use to play kingdom under fire a war of heroes I think it was on windows xp

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Looks like it's supported on proton, silver

    https://www.protondb.com/app/1315200

    So install it through steam and it should be playable

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah but the steam one seems kind of sketch reading the reviews

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    You don't need to buy it on Steam to launch it through Steam

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    OK I didnt know you could run older games from windows xp through steam I'll try to figure it out, I was watching a video last night about using lutris and how to mount the iso from archive.org

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Go to your Steam library, and on the bottom left, click the "+" and then click "add non-steam game" browse to the exe and add it. Then go to the game in your library, hit the gear and go to properties. Go to compatibility, and you should be able to choose your desired Proton version from the drop down. Then launch the game through Steam.

    This is from memory so it might not be exact, but it's close.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What now, dxvk or wine's own wined3d? And, btw, some late 32 bit games have trouble with dxvk using more address space.

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

    it makes you wonder why valve is pursuing it; are there enough people still playing these old games to justify a profit from the endeavor?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, I have seen online of people playing older Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck especially. Even though it most likely not as huge market compared to [insert new game], there's still fair share people that would buy the old game, even if it may be troublesome to run especially on Windows 10/11.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I’d really like to hope it’s a genuine effort to preserve history.

    There’s a lot of history on Steam and losing it to dead os’es sucks. I know my account has a few hundred games that are a pain in the ass to get running on modern hardware without PCGamingWiki, ModDB, Widescreen Gaming Forums, etc…

    Be cool to have them plug and play under proton.

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