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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by navaati on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:37AM (#18327854)
Yep, bought Populous 3: The Beginning from GoG the other day, would not work (except in software rendering which was so slow as to be unplayable). It was €0.79 so whatever, but it was a bit of a disappointment. What about Windows legendary backward compatibility ?
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by ThrowawayR2 on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:10AM (#18328104)
> What about Windows legendary backward compatibility?

The OS is backwards compatible; nVidia's / AMD's video drivers and hardware, well, not so much...

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