[Colchester] Valve Steam Beta on Linux Mint 19 with WINE Proton

[Wayland Sothcott]

1. Go into your Steam Settings - Account. 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".


On 02/09/18 20:15, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote:
> Hello Colchester Linux User Group,
>
> There has been a massive improvement in gaming on Linux this week.
> Windows games now play perfectly. OK not all.
>
> I've built a test machine with the following spec to try this out;
> Hardware
> ASUS P5Q motherboard with a Xeon X5450 patched for 775 at 3.4GHz
> 8GB DDR, 120GB SSD, Radeon R9 290x.
>
> Software
> Latest Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon
> Latest AMDGPU-PRO with Vulkan
> Latest WINE 3.15
> Latest Steam Beta for Linux
>
> Performance
> Cinebench 360
> Uningine Superposition 4320
>
> 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.
>
> Running Cinebench was a good test for Wine as it's only available on 
> Windows. I ran the Linux version of Superposition.
>
> 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.
>
> I was able to run Uningine Heaven Windows version on DX11 at 40fps but 
> the Linux version on OpenGL was more like 70fps.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Wayland.
>

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