Yeah, but it's not worth. Apparently the "gold" list on ProtonDB is games that allegedly work with tweaks. So like, drop in this random DLL and it might fix the game. I'm not gonna spend time on that.

Last one I ever tried was https://www.protondb.com/app/813780 with comments like "works perfectly, except multiplayer is completely broken" and the workaround has changed 3 times so far, also it lags no matter what. Gave up after stealing 4 different DLLs from Windows. It doesn't even have anticheat, it's just cause of some obscure math library.

> Yeah, but it's not worth. Apparently the "gold" list on ProtonDB is games that allegedly work with tweaks. So like, drop in this random DLL and it might fix the game. I'm not gonna spend time on that.

I literally never had to do that. Most tweaking I needed to do was switching proton versions here and there (which is trivial to do).

I've been running opensuse+steam and I never had to tweak a dll to get a game running. Albeit that I don't exactly chase the latest AAA, the new releases that I have tried have worked well.

Age of empires 2 used to work well, without needing any babying, so I'm not sure why it didn't for you. I will see about spinning it up.

It's the kind of problem where you think it's fixed, until it's not. Someone gave an expert insight last time I brought this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042049

You're not supposed to "steal DLLs".

You're supposed to find a proton fork like "glorious eggroll" that has patches specifically for your game.

This is a perfect example of the "small" tweaks people fail to mention when saying games work fine in Linux.

Yeah Proton covers a lot of titles. It’s mainly games that use the most draconian forms of anticheat that don’t work.

It's Linux, what software doesn't need fiddling to work?

Other than maybe iOS what OSes in general don't need fiddling these days to be usable?

Mac. And Windows evidently, even though MS treats you like dirt.