Fortnite devs have chosen to actively not support Linux. Meaning, they have made sure it doesn't work on Linux, on purpose. It will never work on Linux because they want it not to work on it.
Dual boot, or no Fortnite.
Fortnite devs have chosen to actively not support Linux. Meaning, they have made sure it doesn't work on Linux, on purpose. It will never work on Linux because they want it not to work on it.
Dual boot, or no Fortnite.
For Epic Games use Heroic.
For Fortnite use... well, you are pretty much out of luck. A Windows VM with GPU pass-thru maybe?
EAC is the problem. It's not that the game can't run, it's that you'll be blocked from connecting to any servers.
I totally understand. Just wondering if there is something else out there that I can't find with searches.
Ge force it is
I have better ping than my son in the next room. So I dunno.
Dual boot.
Strip Windows down and make it “Fortnite OS”
https://lutris.net/games/fortnite/
did you read this?
Infected with kernel level anticheat
I like that they don't bother being gentle about it. I'd have gone further and called the publishers drooling idiots but lutris probably can't get away with that lol
Yes. But I'm wondering if there is a better way.
I guess the site could have been more clear about it, so let me help you read it:
unsupported on Linux
Will this work on Linux? No, it won't.
It does. But only through GE Force Now and cloud gaming. It doesn't work as Linux native.
GE Force Now (and other cloud gaming) is not Linux.
When playing a game through geforce now it runs on remote servers in NVIDIA’s data centers and is streamed to you as video, with your input sent back to those servers. The game itself is running in a windows VM.
I still run it through Mint
Right, but you're basically streaming a video and sending your keystrokes to the cloud to be executed remotely. The game itself is running on a Windows VM on a server.
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
If multiplaer is important to you .
https://www.protondb.com/
For general Fuck Ups stuff.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Mostly helpflul stuff if you know your way around.
Create a windows to go install on a USB to NVMe caddy, use something like nano11 and set the BIOS to boot off the NVMe. Whenever the kiddo wants to play fortnite, just plug the device and reboot
This is to avoid windows overwriting your EFI partition and nuking your bootloader at random times, the reason I stopped dual booting after win 8.1
I have never done this. Do you have a good source for a guide or walkthrough to look over before I attempt it?
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