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2. Under Beta participation click CHANGE button and select "Steam Beta Update".
3. Then go to you Steam Play tab (after Steam loads again) and enable "Proton 3.7-4 Beta" Under "Compatibility tool".
4. Tick "Enable Steam Play for all titles and "Use this tool instead of game-specific selections from Steam".
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/09/18 20:15, Wayland Sothcott via
Colchester wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:66e531a2-02aa-ed47-8bbb-11ff6af6c3b0@sothcott.co.uk">Hello
Colchester Linux User Group,
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There has been a massive improvement in gaming on Linux this week.
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Windows games now play perfectly. OK not all.
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I've built a test machine with the following spec to try this out;
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Hardware
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ASUS P5Q motherboard with a Xeon X5450 patched for 775 at 3.4GHz
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8GB DDR, 120GB SSD, Radeon R9 290x.
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Software
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Latest Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon
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Latest AMDGPU-PRO with Vulkan
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Latest WINE 3.15
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Latest Steam Beta for Linux
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Performance
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Cinebench 360
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Uningine Superposition 4320
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It's actually quite easy to get this installed. It is important to
build the machine from scratch for this as it needs quite specific
software of the latest version. The only tricky bit is editing the
Linux version file to trick AMDGPU installer to think you're
running Ubuntu. Everything else went in pretty much as per the
instructions on Github.
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Running Cinebench was a good test for Wine as it's only available
on Windows. I ran the Linux version of Superposition.
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Installing Steam was as easy as clicking the install button on
Steampowered website. You do have to activate BETA mode so that
even unapproved Windows games will attempt to load.
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I was able to run Uningine Heaven Windows version on DX11 at 40fps
but the Linux version on OpenGL was more like 70fps.
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I have some steam games which were Windows only which ran
perfectly. Steam uses it's own version of Wine optimized for Linux
called Proton. This is installed automatically.
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Conclusion, Valve have opened up a vast number of Windows games
for Linux. They just have to work their way through them to
approve them. Developers will now be ensuring their games are
Steam Proton compatible. With Vulkan on both Windows and Linux
coding natively for both has also got easier. More people will be
ditching Windows 10 for Linux now.
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What do you think?
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Regards,
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Wayland.
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