I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • Aux@lemmy.world
    5125·
    9 months ago

    Short time? Proton is built around Wine, which is 30 years old. 30 years is not a short time.

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
      681·
      9 months ago

      Remember the wine days where proton didn’t exist? Barely any game was playable.

      We got from unplayable to “download and play” within 5 years

      • Tau@sopuli.xyz
        18·
        9 months ago

        Or you went from hell and back trying to install all the dependencies with winetricks

      • gens@programming.dev
        83·
        9 months ago

        Warcraft 3 worked better then on win. At that time more then half of games worked (newest aaa-est usually had problems). Just before proton almost all games worked (with some winetricks black magic). Valve did help, but there’s more to the story.

        • Clbull@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          I had the opposite experience. WarCraft III would frequently soft lock my PC forcing a reboot, plus you couldn’t use the mouse to move the camera because the game couldn’t detect the mouse going to the screen edge, forcing you to use the arrow keys.

          Some versions of Wine also wouldn’t allow you to connect to Bnet, requiring a rollback to a previous version from months prior.

          • gens@programming.dev
            2·
            9 months ago

            I put -opengl on the end of it and it worked great. Wasn’t on release, but later when dota was popular.

            • Clbull@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 months ago

              Of course I would’ve forced OpenGL. DXVK didn’t exist at the time and DirectX 8 or 9 games were unplayably laggy back in 2007. Apparently you could run DirectX apps with near-native performance by sourcing the necessary Windows DLL’s but that would involve piracy?

      • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
        56·
        9 months ago

        Guys, actually this stuff was written in C which has been around for 50 years. But yea, this happened quickly.

    • KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world
      557·
      9 months ago

      Don’t you people have something better to do than unironically doing the ackchyually meme? Follow the fucking post and its fucking intent, you fucking internet weirdos. You’re not as smart as you think you are.