Fedora 39 To Raise Its vm.max_map_count To Satisfy Some Steam Play Games

[virr]

To the people that hated my suggestion about playing games on Windows and claim that you can play Windows games on Linux "just fine"m I defy you to play any of the Resident Evil games on Linux, except for RE4 Remake, which does run under Proton.

All the rest of them do not run.

Same thing with a lot of games,

If course, I still think that the best option for gaming is a console, buy an XBOX, hook it up to a 50 inch TV and enjoy.

I'm sorry if you get any bug haven't been fixed. But as my weekend routine, I'm playing AoE4 and FH5 on Linux very well without any stuttering image or fps drop. Notice that both of these games are developed by Mic, and only rank silver in protonDB. Yeah I knew some games act stupid on Wine or Proton, the most simple thing is anti cheat from Blizzard. But in general, I'm fine with gaming on Linux overall.

[jeisom]

On Linux?

How did you install it? When I tried to install any of the RE's other than RE4 Remake, Steam said they were unsupported.

Just installed them in Steam. You may need to go into steam’s settings and set what to use as a compatible layer.

[sophisticles]

Why are you lying on Phoronix, XBOX fanboy?

Here, take a look:

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Resident%20Evil

Also, I have a Linux HTPC hooked up to my 4K TV, and I can play alot more games than you can on your locked-down XBOX, with any input device I prefer.

But I guess a XBOX is just fine for a casual like you...

Did you bother to look at the comments?

https://www.protondb.com/app/883710

https://www.protondb.com/app/1196590

Seems to be hit or miss.

[sophisticles]

I played RE7 biohazard just fine.

On Linux?

How did you install it? When I tried to install any of the RE's other than RE4 Remake, Steam said they were unsupported.

[Linuxxx]

To the people that hated my suggestion about playing games on Windows and claim that you can play Windows games on Linux "just fine"m I defy you to play any of the Resident Evil games on Linux, except for RE4 Remake, which does run under Proton.

All the rest of them do not run.

Same thing with a lot of games,

If course, I still think that the best option for gaming is a console, buy an XBOX, hook it up to a 50 inch TV and enjoy.

Why are you lying on Phoronix, XBOX fanboy?

Here, take a look:

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Resident%20Evil

Also, I have a Linux HTPC hooked up to my 4K TV, and I can play alot more games than you can on your locked-down XBOX, with any input device I prefer.

But I guess a XBOX is just fine for a casual like you...

[jeisom]

To the people that hated my suggestion about playing games on Windows and claim that you can play Windows games on Linux "just fine"m I defy you to play any of the Resident Evil games on Linux, except for RE4 Remake, which does run under Proton.

All the rest of them do not run.

Same thing with a lot of games,

If course, I still think that the best option for gaming is a console, buy an XBOX, hook it up to a 50 inch TV and enjoy.

I played RE7 biohazard just fine.

[sophisticles]

To the people that hated my suggestion about playing games on Windows and claim that you can play Windows games on Linux "just fine"m I defy you to play any of the Resident Evil games on Linux, except for RE4 Remake, which does run under Proton.

All the rest of them do not run.

Same thing with a lot of games,

If course, I still think that the best option for gaming is a console, buy an XBOX, hook it up to a 50 inch TV and enjoy.

[AusMatt]

NO. You can play with Windows, but I'm sticking to Linux and gaming on it instead. If the game doesn't work, there are other games. I'm done with toying with Windows. I like Linux. I prefer Linux, I am going to game on Linux. I'd rather spend the time with wine and proton, than deal with Windows.

This guy knows what he's talking about. I also game in Linux and enjoy the amazing stability versus my previous life with Windoze^%&^%$#@. It's the same reason why Mac people (which is also a UNIX like system) can't stand the BS from Bill.

[krunky]

Star Citizen and some mods like RogueTech certainly would hit this issue as they do a lot of things in the background.
Another issue that nobody thinks about is swap file limits, or lack of.

Lots of my games will eat a certain high value swap size and if it can't get it, they cause the system to break. I run a 40gb swap file because Linux doesn't do dynamic swap.

You should try swapspace even systemd-swap maintainer suggest it's better.

[Volta]

Another option is to play Windows games on, oh I don't know, Windows, maybe?

Yes, I know some games will play fine under Linux with WINE, but many don't and if you are into Windows games either buy an XBOX or run a dual boot like i do.

Most of the games play fine under Linux and keeping windows around is not an option for many people. Furthermore, I don't like trashing my system with dozens of different libraries, registry entries and any other trash I can't easily track. By using Steam and Proton I know exactly when game, libraries and files go, so I can delete them easily. Windows crawls after some time and this is another reason I'm doing dual booting anymore. I don't have a patience for it.