Windows Games’ Compatibility on Linux Is at an All-Time High
Voytrekk
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Some games get patched to break compatibility, usually with anti-cheat. Apex Legends and Battlefield 1 are examples of that.

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Oh, I see. I don’t play anything like that, so I was oblivious to the issue. Thanks!

Voytrekk
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Fortunately those are a minority of games. Most games now are working with Wine/Proton out of the box. Multiplayer games are the only thing I ever look at compatibility lists for.

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Unfortunately these minority of games are actually popular games. I think GTA 5 Online no longer works on Linux too. There was more popular games doing that.

I don’t even play Apex Legends and I’m still a bit butthurt to this day that they decided to add anti-cheat that broke Linux compatibility. They say it helped bring the amount of cheaters down though, but who can really tell besides those who collect the numbers - which is them.

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Outlast trials is the latest game (to my knowledge) that added eac (due to a pretty useless pvp mode) and broke Linux compatibility

Not true; works fine on linux.

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I guess they enabled Linux support then in eac because it didn’t work initially

Domi
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The game is Steam Deck verified and the developer even noted that Steam Deck support for the new anti-cheat was tested before release. I played a few hours right after release and it worked fine, so not sure when “initially” is.

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