Steam Beta Update Now Allows Per-Game Enabling Of Steam Play, Other Improvements

[JPFSanders]

And this is why for the foreseeable future my money is with Steam.

[johanb]

This also allows for forcing Linux-native games to be run under Steam Play instead, should you so desire for comparison purposes or avoiding a buggy Linux native game.

Finally!

I hate GarrysMod which loads an insane amount of weird dynamic libraries on Linux which makes VIRT usage go past 4gb on larger servers which results in a crash since the game is 32-bit.

[woife]

"... is the ability to force-enable Steam Play on a per-game basis via the title's properties pane"

Yeah
Just tried it out, works like really well!
I bought Painkiller Hell and Damnation a long time ago when it was on sale, but I could never play it because the Linux version was completely broken (heavy visual artifacts).

[dpanter]

MXGP3 is a good example of a bad Linux port.

[Guest]

"... is the ability to force-enable Steam Play on a per-game basis via the title's properties pane"

Yeah
Just tried it out, works like really well!
I bought Painkiller Hell and Damnation a long time ago when it was on sale, but I could never play it because the Linux version was completely broken (heavy visual artifacts).

The port wouldn't even launch for me at all, so I guess you're lucky. In any case, you're not missing out, that game is a disaster, a huge step down from the original game.