Windows Games on Linux - All you need to know - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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DarthPerfidious
god i love linux.. and its thanks to you Chris. Thanks for removing my fear. I encourage everyone else to use linux. Its not as hard as it was 10 years ago. Today you have really userfriendly distros(im using manjaro/winxp dualboot system) most things you can do via gui. And if not, you just google it. And thats the first thing ive done: establishing an internet connection. And suprise suprise i didnt have to install drivers my cellphone was usb connected to my pc and - usb tethering worked immediately(wow). Im using manjaro since last november. Since then the system has crashed 3 times(all my fault). First time because i tried to play a video from the other partition(i wasnt using wine/oops). The other crashes because of gaming stuff(you can create sandboxes to be sure). Just use linux! Its fast and just feels like it makes the best out of your hardware(and it gives you a feeling of security youll never have in windows. The firewall was setup automatically too :) ). And hell its free! so dont hesitate. Go to a linux website download your favourite distro to an usb stick and try the live version(its always a good idea to have a bootable linux usb stick just in case your windows is raped by viruses) i used unetbootin to create the usbe stick.
Its hard to describe how i felt after everything worked.. it felt like i was in heaven!
trust me you will say goodbye windows forever..
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god i love linux.. and its thanks to you Chris. Thanks for removing my fear. I encourage everyone else to use linux. Its not as hard as it was 10 years ago. Today you have really userfriendly distros(im using manjaro/winxp dualboot system) most things you can do via gui. And if not, you just google it. And thats the first thing ive done: establishing an internet connection. And suprise suprise i didnt have to install drivers my cellphone was usb connected to my pc and - usb tethering worked immediately(wow). Im using manjaro since last november. Since then the system has crashed 3 times(all my fault). First time because i tried to play a video from the other partition(i wasnt using wine/oops). The other crashes because of gaming stuff(you can create sandboxes to be sure). Just use linux! Its fast and just feels like it makes the best out of your hardware(and it gives you a feeling of security youll never have in windows. The firewall was setup automatically too :) ). And hell its free! so dont hesitate. Go to a linux website download your favourite distro to an usb stick and try the live version(its always a good idea to have a bootable linux usb stick just in case your windows is raped by viruses) i used unetbootin to create the usbe stick.
Its hard to describe how i felt after everything worked.. it felt like i was in heaven!
trust me you will say goodbye windows forever..
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Mandrake
Our systems were both ancient, so to get us current, and able to grab some video cards in the near future - I bought both my wife and I some decent spec AMD 2400G systems (16G mem, 500G ssd, with open m.2 and pci slot). They are small and limited upgradeability, but pretty smoking little units for the money. Got both of them for $599 each a while back.
Linux (I use 19.1 Mint at the moment) plays EVERY game I play. Via Steam or standalone - it's insane. Granted a lot of the stuff we play together is older stuff (Like WoW, SWTOR, LotRO), I've had no problems with anything on Steam either. I only have 3 that are Windows only - they all Proton perfect... everything else I play I didn't even realize they already have linux versions!
I can't believe it. I have absolutely ZERO need for a dual boot anymore. I'm finally FREE! :) - Although now I'm going to have to slap a drive on and try PopOS - it looks interesting.
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Our systems were both ancient, so to get us current, and able to grab some video cards in the near future - I bought both my wife and I some decent spec AMD 2400G systems (16G mem, 500G ssd, with open m.2 and pci slot). They are small and limited upgradeability, but pretty smoking little units for the money. Got both of them for $599 each a while back.
Linux (I use 19.1 Mint at the moment) plays EVERY game I play. Via Steam or standalone - it's insane. Granted a lot of the stuff we play together is older stuff (Like WoW, SWTOR, LotRO), I've had no problems with anything on Steam either. I only have 3 that are Windows only - they all Proton perfect... everything else I play I didn't even realize they already have linux versions!
I can't believe it. I have absolutely ZERO need for a dual boot anymore. I'm finally FREE! :) - Although now I'm going to have to slap a drive on and try PopOS - it looks interesting.
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benriful
Just wondering ... this idea of Wine bottles being different to one another, while some have many similarities. It does seem a waste to have multiple copies of the same dependencies in each bottle.
IMO, this is an ideal situation for something like OverlayFS as used in Docker. I.e. a base system, with an overlaid -drive- only adding new stuff or replacing only the needed portions. In fact, the Wine -Bottle- idea does seem very similar in concept to Docker as well. Just for a different purpose and use case. Perhaps it may be a better idea for me to propose such over there instead of just commenting here.
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Just wondering ... this idea of Wine bottles being different to one another, while some have many similarities. It does seem a waste to have multiple copies of the same dependencies in each bottle.
IMO, this is an ideal situation for something like OverlayFS as used in Docker. I.e. a base system, with an overlaid -drive- only adding new stuff or replacing only the needed portions. In fact, the Wine -Bottle- idea does seem very similar in concept to Docker as well. Just for a different purpose and use case. Perhaps it may be a better idea for me to propose such over there instead of just commenting here.
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Robert
I have been a Linux user since 1994, starting with Red Hat, and use it for almost everything having converted to Debian based systems in the early 2000s. Using Linux for games though has eluded me as a result of several disappointments. Early on Wine was flaky to say the least and graphics support was variable. Lately things seem to have improved by leaps and bounds and I feel ready to dip my toes in the water again, and your experiences also encourage me, so here we go with fingers crossed. Can I finally walk away from Windoze ripoff ware? Watch this space...
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I have been a Linux user since 1994, starting with Red Hat, and use it for almost everything having converted to Debian based systems in the early 2000s. Using Linux for games though has eluded me as a result of several disappointments. Early on Wine was flaky to say the least and graphics support was variable. Lately things seem to have improved by leaps and bounds and I feel ready to dip my toes in the water again, and your experiences also encourage me, so here we go with fingers crossed. Can I finally walk away from Windoze ripoff ware? Watch this space...
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Io
Thanks to these developments, I can say that my next desktop PC will probably have Linux. Thinking about either Debian or Mint. My current Windows gaming desktop from 2014 has bluescreened multiple times of late! Windows with its usual shenanigans...
I have a gaming laptop for uni, so I can hold off for a few years until some better equipment becomes available, or until current equipment becomes cheaper due to newer releases. Until then, I am stuck with windoze :P
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Thanks to these developments, I can say that my next desktop PC will probably have Linux. Thinking about either Debian or Mint. My current Windows gaming desktop from 2014 has bluescreened multiple times of late! Windows with its usual shenanigans...
I have a gaming laptop for uni, so I can hold off for a few years until some better equipment becomes available, or until current equipment becomes cheaper due to newer releases. Until then, I am stuck with windoze :P
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Cyrus
so, if I am getting it right, to play my GTA (original cd) I have -wine- that is horrible ore virtual windows that's gone a lags more than on windows.... ore I got to learn programming? I did install and play Tetris from win3.1 in wine and it worked, but not -Jedi knight-. I think that you can do a video fore ancient win user that are new to Linux and do not want to go back. specially those like me that have no comprehension of Linux environment(s).
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so, if I am getting it right, to play my GTA (original cd) I have -wine- that is horrible ore virtual windows that's gone a lags more than on windows.... ore I got to learn programming? I did install and play Tetris from win3.1 in wine and it worked, but not -Jedi knight-. I think that you can do a video fore ancient win user that are new to Linux and do not want to go back. specially those like me that have no comprehension of Linux environment(s).
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Ricardo
i would really like my new gaming pc to run linux but there is one game that i cant seem to find any info on how to make it run on linux, its Black Desert Online, i guess i have to go the virtualization route but havent yet figured out how to make it run with good performance and low input lag - also VR is a big thing for me, not sure yet how my vr games r going to run with linux & the valve index
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i would really like my new gaming pc to run linux but there is one game that i cant seem to find any info on how to make it run on linux, its Black Desert Online, i guess i have to go the virtualization route but havent yet figured out how to make it run with good performance and low input lag - also VR is a big thing for me, not sure yet how my vr games r going to run with linux & the valve index
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sandip
would you please please please make a video on how to use same testbottle for different games???????...........2nd thing is that if i have the setup.exe file of that game then like mediamonkey what you did first to execute setup.exe and then after install i have to run the actual exe file right???....and where do i install my setup files ?? in drive_c/program files or where???...please help
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would you please please please make a video on how to use same testbottle for different games???????...........2nd thing is that if i have the setup.exe file of that game then like mediamonkey what you did first to execute setup.exe and then after install i have to run the actual exe file right???....and where do i install my setup files ?? in drive_c/program files or where???...please help
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Kiwi
I tried some time back with crossover to get Skyrim running and was told the DawGuard DLC has a bug that can't be fixed and that why the game lock everytime it's run with that DLC loaded
I'd love (because it free anf you can get it) to see a video getting Epic Game's UE4 Editor running maybe on Mint and the process to do that, I need to know Perfoce witll work too
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I tried some time back with crossover to get Skyrim running and was told the DawGuard DLC has a bug that can't be fixed and that why the game lock everytime it's run with that DLC loaded
I'd love (because it free anf you can get it) to see a video getting Epic Game's UE4 Editor running maybe on Mint and the process to do that, I need to know Perfoce witll work too
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Smokemaster
Native steam games are not always just click and play... Now, to be fair, this is just poor optimization, but what can help is running that game as a Windows game through Steam play. Payday 2 is this way for me, even though it has a native Linux versions. Although I suspect newer games will be optimized better.
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Native steam games are not always just click and play... Now, to be fair, this is just poor optimization, but what can help is running that game as a Windows game through Steam play. Payday 2 is this way for me, even though it has a native Linux versions. Although I suspect newer games will be optimized better.
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