TheSaneGamer
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Game ran perfectly out of the box with Proton 7.0rc2-GE-1, no noticeable bugs or errors with good performance.
The game played out of the box with Proton Experimental. No other changes were required, the game played just as good as Windows.
Singleplayer experience is near perfect out of the box. Multiplayer experience is acceptable, but only on Proton 7.0.6.
The multiplayer for this game lags in the player room, but speeds back up in the actual multiplayer games and is a playable experience overall.
Same as for online multiplayer.
Singleplayer worked well on all of the Proton versions I tried. Multiplayer worked to some extent on several Proton versions, but by the far worked the best on Proton 7.0.6.
The game will become unstable if you Alt-Tab out of it too much.
The alt-tabbing issue is independent of Proton, it's just an issue with the way the game handles fullscreen graphics. It otherwise played great with no noticeable bugs.
Celeste Native runs very well. It was a good experience and I would recommend it.
I did not test any of the Proton versions, but the native version runs well enough that I don't believe you need it.
Overall, I had a really great experience. Cult of the Lamb holds really well using Proton.
Occasional crashes, but otherwise very enjoyable experience. Completely playable on Linux.
The game would deteriate in stability upon alt-tabbing too often, and would blackscreen if the game was left alone too long.
Game was slightly less stable in Multiplayer, crashing more often, but it's unknown whether this was related to playing on Linux.
I was unable to find a solution for occasional crashes that I experienced. Their cause was unknown, so they may or may not be related to playing the game on Proton.
The Native version of the game works excellently. There are no unique significant bugs in the Linux version and it plays very well.
Local multiplayer is single screen, multiple inputs. All difficulties invovled were because of design decisions and were not technical in nautre.
Fallout New Vegas is nearly unplayable vanilla on proton. With some mods and fixes the game is a playable, stable, and enjoyable experience.
Fallout: New Vegas was initially so buggy that it was near unplayable. I was able to get it to be mostly stable by installing a plethora of mods. I have no idea if the problems were just because its a Fallout game or because of linux, but the following mods in tandem resulted in a pretty good gameplay experience: Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - Base game and all DLC New Vegas Anti-Crash JIP LN NVSE Plugin OneTweak for Fallout New Vegas Ogg Vorbis Libraries Simple DLC Delay (Purely optional) Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod (Delete meshes/characters/_male/1hpequip.kf to prevent floating corpses bug) New Vegas Tick Fix (Play around with the config of this mod, it plays a bit different for everyone but really does help with stability) Asterra's Many Fixes New Vegas Script Extender 6.2.4
These mods in tandem resolved most of my problems with Fallout New Vegas and made it playable.
Surround sound doesn't play nice with Fallout New Vegas, but the quality with stereo sound is fine. The mods unfortunately don't fix this, I was unable to find a fix.
I suspect this is just due to the age of the game, moreso than any problem on proton's part. The mods will fix the artifacting and most of the broken textures, but they're not perfect and at various points I still could spot broken or missing textures.
I forget which mod fixes it, but in vanilla the game will crash about half the time you alt-tab. With the mods, it crashes about a twentieth of the time.
Before installing the mods, there was signifigant stuttering and an overall low FPS. After installing and tweaking the mods, the frame rate smoothed out and moved into a range of 120-144 fps on high settings, which is about right for my hardware.
Without the mods the game is highly unstable, and crashed every 10 to 15 minutes for me. The mods smoothed it out and made it so the game rarely crashes in some areas and occasionally in others, resulting in a tolerable and playable experience.
SteamTinkerLaunch's vortex extension was the easiest and most convenient way for me to install mods for Fallout New Vegas. Many people prefer Lutris's version of Vortex, but I was never able to get that to work. However, SteamTinkerLaunch's vortex works great and SteamTinkerLaunch is easy to install, with a helpful install wiki on the github page. The link is https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch.
I would also like to note that I use Proton Experimental to play Fallout: New Vegas.
Far Cry plays well on Proton, but as with Windows needs to have a few patches applied first.
gamemoderun %command% -mod:FarOut_Widescreen -64bit
To get the game to boot as is (vanilla) you must set Lighting Details to High (Very High will cause a crash) and you must turn off "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game", as that will also cause a crash. Neither of these modifications are necessary if you run the Far Out patcher, which I will discuss later.
I used Wine to run an installer that applies some common patches to Far Cry and bundles them together under a single mod. Here is a link to a Pastebin post where I describe my process: https://pastebin.com/QfV48QJZ.
Played just fine straight out of the box with Proton Experimental. No major modifications required.
In order to run, Steam will install the Ubisoft launcher and run it inside of Proton. The Ubisoft launcher may require you to sign in, and may require you to activate the game. If so, do it and then restart the game with Steam and it should run.
The game played great at first, but got more unstable over time. I would recommend overall, but definitely could use some patching.
The video game would forget which entries in the Help Menu, Hints, and Character Selectors that I had read once I had unlocked around half of the in-game content. It would remember for the duration of the game, but forget each time the game was reloaded.
The game become increasingly unstable the longer I played. It crashed semi-frequently as I neared 100% completion, but it was still playable when I finally finished the game.
The issues in this game were unfortunately not from Proton, as Windows players I talked with experienced the same issues. As such, Proton updates will not resolve these issues and instead the game itself would need to be patched.
While the game had occasional stability issues, it played out of the box and was overall a good experience.
The game would occassionally freeze up for around 20 seconds. The game each time would eventually unfreeze.
The game plays fine in Linux overall, but try to minimize how often you alt-tab if you'd like the game to play well.
The game experienced progressive slow downs with frequent alt tabbing. It never outright crashed, but the game definitely decreased in stability the more that I did it.
