I am looking at switching to Linux soon. I really want to be able to keep playing my old WH40k games and my City of heroes and my other MMOs. So you are telling me these will run fine on Linux? I am new at this Linux thing so forgive me.
Dawn of war works great for me, ive also managed to play space marine one and two, (granted one is a bit of a pain in the ass to get working) ive also gotten Gothic armada 2 and gladius to run. As far as I remember the only one that didn’t work out of the box was space marine 1 and that’s because of some stupid DRM that’s been put on it. I’m on Pop!OS for reference.
In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.
The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.
Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.
I have a lifetime STO account and I like to do a taskforce every now and then. Maybe I should just keep a machine that runs my MMOs and do everything else on the Linux machine. EDIT–I just looked this up and it will run through Steam
Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)
Compatibilty of Windows games in Linux have gone a long way, partly but also independently from Steam’s work on it.
In fact Linux nowadays supports more Windows games than Windows, as especially older games still work there but not on modern Windows anymore.
I will not pretend that there aren’t games with issues, but in the vast majority of cases that’s new games and for the simple reason that some publishers actively go out their way to prevent them from working on Linux (highlights being anti-cheat tech that Linux worked hard to make it compatible, yet with certain publishers intentionally not setting a simple flag needed to run, often with totally made-up “reasons” about Linux’ insecurity…).
I’ve gotten to the point where I just assume that the game will work with proton. I’ll check protondb if it’s an expensive game but other than that I just pretend I’m using Windows.
The crazy part is games run better and I don’t have to set my region to JP to play… uhhhh… JRPGs. Not to mention I can’t relapse into playing League with That Guy.
not only can i install steam i can run almost any game marked windows only
I am looking at switching to Linux soon. I really want to be able to keep playing my old WH40k games and my City of heroes and my other MMOs. So you are telling me these will run fine on Linux? I am new at this Linux thing so forgive me.
Dawn of war works great for me, ive also managed to play space marine one and two, (granted one is a bit of a pain in the ass to get working) ive also gotten Gothic armada 2 and gladius to run. As far as I remember the only one that didn’t work out of the box was space marine 1 and that’s because of some stupid DRM that’s been put on it. I’m on Pop!OS for reference.
not really an expert at warhammer but steam has done a lot of work in compatibility of games.
you can check protondb and lutris.net
In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.
The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.
Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.
I have a lifetime STO account and I like to do a taskforce every now and then. Maybe I should just keep a machine that runs my MMOs and do everything else on the Linux machine. EDIT–I just looked this up and it will run through Steam
Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)
Compatibilty of Windows games in Linux have gone a long way, partly but also independently from Steam’s work on it.
In fact Linux nowadays supports more Windows games than Windows, as especially older games still work there but not on modern Windows anymore.
I will not pretend that there aren’t games with issues, but in the vast majority of cases that’s new games and for the simple reason that some publishers actively go out their way to prevent them from working on Linux (highlights being anti-cheat tech that Linux worked hard to make it compatible, yet with certain publishers intentionally not setting a simple flag needed to run, often with totally made-up “reasons” about Linux’ insecurity…).
The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.
I’ve gotten to the point where I just assume that the game will work with proton. I’ll check protondb if it’s an expensive game but other than that I just pretend I’m using Windows.
The crazy part is games run better and I don’t have to set my region to JP to play… uhhhh… JRPGs. Not to mention I can’t relapse into playing League with That Guy.
I can even run games that don’t work on modern Windows, like Fallout 3.