How good is the recent update of proton on steam and does the newest linux kernel add anything for gaming?

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I’m only getting improvements as time goes on, they’re incremental so it can be a bit hard to notice from day to day. Overall it’s a very solid experience so far.

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Yeah it’s not like you’ll notice a huge difference, unless your specific game starts/stops working. Otherwise incremental fixes to dx12 or embedded video playback is kind of elementary. For example, Spyro Reignited Trilogy in particular seems to break / get fixed periodically, possibly due to the way they did cutscenes in that game.

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The biggest thing i’ve noticed with proton updates is I no longer have to hunt down specific proton versions, or use GE Proton anymore, or even use launch arguments

Every game I’ve played just runs flawlessly with proton experimental now.

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I totally forgot I owned that game on Xbox…

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I’m not noticing much difference, if any. But I’m playing games that have been stable and well established as deck compatible, so maybe I’m not the best example.

Edit: I do have and use steam on my laptop, just not often enough to merit an opinion

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You after something specific? I installed steam in a old ass desktop last week, got factorio running lickety split and have hardly seen daylight since

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Factorio is linux native though ;)

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It’s about incremental improvements. Proton: game computability and performance. kernel: video card drivers optimization.

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Maybe someday HDR and FSR 4.# will be enabled/work out of box on supported games without Gamescope or steam launch property tweaking. 🥹

I think that’s currently a Linux gamer tax.

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I’m kinda new to Linux, I got Nobara due to having a 4080, I have a nvidia/intel gaming laptop, since the wine 11 and proton updates Darktide started working flawlessly, and that was the only game I had major issues with.

Infact I so rarely use my dual boot of windows to do anything now, I’m like the Gandalf meme, I have no memory of this place.

Honestly it’s faster too imo, maybe it’s just bias but even down to just startup, shut down, it doesn’t hang as much, it doesn’t get in your way and ask you if you want edge as your default browser 15 times a day.

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I just made the full switch from windows to Linux Mint a few weeks ago after one of the many windows bugs hit me and I lost all my files. I’m not a huge gamer but I game.

So far I’ve only run into one issue and I think that has more to do with the program being 25 years old than it being a Linux issue lol. Everything modern has just worked with no crazy steps to take ahead of time. Granted I don’t play any games that have anti cheat built in so I can’t say anything about that.

Edit, It may help you to know what games I’ve tried so far. I’m only 3 weeks in so not many lol. Sims 2 (one of the programs for it is what’s giving me an issue not the game itself), Stardew Valley, Grounded, Grounded 2 and, I’ve loaded Ark but I haven’t played it. I have the EMERGENCY! Series in my library as well as Alice Madness Returns but, I have not installed them yet. I have several other games I’ll eventually get around to installing but, I go in waves of what games I play.

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Especially. Please tell me if wow voice chat works now under Experimental. It’s been hinky.

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