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this rarely happens, but when i run into a game that doesn’t work i - check protondb.com to see if someone else has already found a solution. trying different proton versions can sometimes help as well

maybe, actually. i could technically turn the game into a library and put the parts of the engine that handle input and output in a separate application. but i’d have to find a license that allows this. i don’t remember the details about linking libraries in the GPL 3, iirc the LGPL has something to do with libraries. but this would also allow others to include the game library into a proprietary application, providing they don’t make any changes to the code

true, but this would make it difficult to update the console version because i can’t include contributions from the pc version in the console version. i’d have to maintain two versions instead of just one. or not update the console version, but that’s not a good solution either.
say a contributor fixes a bug, i wouldn’t be able to use the same code in the console version because this code is property of the contributor and is GPL licensed. but the console version would make references to a proprietary console API of which i can’t share any information, thus can’t add the code. so i’d have to find a different way to fix the same bug or leave it as is

i’m procrastinating on a game also made using only free software. i want to release the code without the assets under a free software license (just like doom). but if i do this i can’t release the game on consoles unless i don’t accept contributions. because of devkit NDAs

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what filesystem you use to store your games on shouldn’t matter. as long as the file system is able to store the files you need and supports the file permissions unix systems use it doesn’t really matter.
i recall things like file management are a little faster on btrfs, but it has no impact on game performance or loading times for as far as i’m aware

You can try playing Minetest, it’s not a game on its own. More like a game engine. One of the most popular games for it is Mineclone 2. Though you will likely need to run your own server if you want to play the game online with a friend.

Looks like lemmy doesn’t accept posts with attachments.
I tried to send a screenshot of a settings for accelerated rendering in steam. I don’t think i’ll make a difference, but turning it on is worth a try

forgot the attachment, i’ve sent another post

doubt this will do anything, but have you tried turning this on?
(posted again because the edit didn’t federate and i forgot the attachment)

doubt this will do anything, but have you tried turning this on?

Most modloaders work by tricking the game into loading a dll file by giving the dll file the name of another dll file the game actually needs. (dsound.dll for example)
But wine ignores these custom dll files by default because it has its own custom implementations of the libraries that use dll files with those names and prioritizes those.
You can change settings with winecfg to make wine load the modloader dll files anyway, I don’t remember exactly how to do this for a proton prefix, but it shouldn’t be difficult

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Proton works very well for me. I don’t play any games that use anti cheat though.
A lot of games that use anti cheat middleware don’t work, but I’ve heard support is improving.
I use Debian Testing. I recommend using Testing as well if you want to use Debian, or at least a custom kernel like xanmod to get newer drivers.

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No idea, honestly. I’m guessing winetricks downloads the actual WMP, which would explain why it’s not included by default. Not sure though

A lot of games rely on Windows Media Player to play videos. So that needs to be accurately reverse engineered for videos to work properly through Wine and Proton.
Support is slowly improving.

And the Unity game engine supports very few video formats on Linux. So lazy native ports with MP4 videos won’t work, they would probably just crash the game. Unity doesn’t support MP4 on Linux.