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Earthworm Jim
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C0vrt(17 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 15 minutes with Proton)
C0vrt (17 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 15 minutes with Proton)
4 years ago

game works but not able to be fullscreened in dosbox, boxtron works better for running dos based games

4 years ago
Windowing:Activating Fullscreen

as noted with EWJ2, using boxtron works fine with proper full screen, but dosbox will not allow full screen in the builtin version for proton.

Proton 5.13-4
Distro:Freedesktop.org 20.08.2 (Flatpak runtime)
Kernel:5.9.16-100.fc32.x86_64
RAM:15 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 455.45.01
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
CPU:Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz
C0vrt(17 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 15 minutes with Proton)
Proton 5.13-4
Distro:Freedesktop.org 20.08.2 (Flatpak runtime)
Kernel:5.9.16-100.fc32.x86_64
RAM:15 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 455.45.01
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
CPU:Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz
Stoney_Fish(1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
Stoney_Fish (1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
5 years ago

No issues

5 years ago

Using Boxtron uses native DosBox and gives full height screen and MIDI music.

Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.04
Kernel:5.0.0-37-generic
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
CPU:Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz
Stoney_Fish(1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.04
Kernel:5.0.0-37-generic
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
CPU:Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz
Stoney_Fish(1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
Stoney_Fish (1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
5 years ago

No issues.

5 years ago

Used Boxtron giving full height screen and MIDI music.

Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.04
Kernel:5.0.0-37-generic
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
CPU:Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz
Stoney_Fish(1032 reports)
< 1 hour overall(< 1 hour with Proton)
Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.04
Kernel:5.0.0-37-generic
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
CPU:Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz
Amador(46 reports)
(< 15 minutes with Proton)
Amador (46 reports)
(< 15 minutes with Proton)
5 years ago

Maybe it could be played in keyboard controller mode + a joy2key-like program

5 years ago
Input:Controller Mapping

Jump button unreliable. down-left direction unreliable.

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

slowdown navigating menu and ingame

Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.10
Kernel:5.3.0-23-generic
RAM:8 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
CPU:Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz
Amador(46 reports)
(< 15 minutes with Proton)
Proton 4.11-12
Distro:Ubuntu 19.10
Kernel:5.3.0-23-generic
RAM:8 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 430.50
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
CPU:Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz
Unknown
Unknown 
7 years ago
Borked
7 years ago

Frame rate is very low after a few seconds

Distro:Manjaro Linux
Kernel:4.18.6-1-MANJARO
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:3.1 Mesa 18.1.8
GPU:Radeon RX 580
CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core
Unknown
Distro:Manjaro Linux
Kernel:4.18.6-1-MANJARO
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:3.1 Mesa 18.1.8
GPU:Radeon RX 580
CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

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