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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm thinking maybe you're not aware of the extent at which Proton works these days. It's come a long way, and fewer and fewer games are incompatible every day. Even games that Steam marks "unsupported" often work (for example, Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition with DSFix).

Games often play better with Proton than using their own native Linux runtime. On Steam Deck, and on my shitty Linux laptop.

My understanding about Fortnite, is that it's literally just a switch they'd have to flip to allow EAC.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago

I am fully aware of the state of Linux gaming, and I do play game with Proton, but the experience is far from perfect with many games having visual glitches and unexpected crashes. Epic likely do not want to deal with this and Valve will certainly not help a competitor get on their platform . It may be true that for the EAC, it is a switch to be toggled, but this does not show the entire story which is also the game experience.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Which games have you had visual glitches and crashes?

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The last two games I've played: Lethal Company and BeamNG.Drive, both games that should be basically perfect. They both ran fine enough for me to play for an extended period, but there were some visual glitches like flickering or stuttering.

Edit: the person talking about echo chambers was so right... I'm getting downvoted for sharing my experience that happens to go slightly (!) contradict the "Linux is the best gaming platform" narrative

[-] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Sounds like you're the only one.. I've played several hours of Lethal Company, and it's ran perfectly.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well that must be why on my 2 computers I've had some minor issues like the game crashing for having the misfortune of changing my workspace or having flickering on the top of my screen for 3 hours that persists after restarts and reboots.

Just because your experience has been perfect does not mean mine and other people's been. This community needs to stop taking criticism of real issues as an insult to their mother.

[-] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Just because your experience has been perfect does not mean mine and other people's been.

That's why I linked to ProtonDB, where the vast majority of people have a perfect experience out of the box.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you have bugs that the vast majority don't have, then why don't you... let's say... go report them instead of complaining on some random forum so they can can actually get patched...

The devs can't patch a bug only a handful of people experience if those said people don't submit proper bug reports.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Because I have not been able to isolate and reproduce it yet. I also did no troubleshooting to see if it was present on other proton versions yet. And also the game crashing on workspace switching has been reported in the past, it is a known issue.

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