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  • Rentlar
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    9 months ago

    Yeah Helldivers 2 is an example of a game that is mindblowing to me that it runs at all. If this were 2021 the process would be something like:

    Download Doitsu-jin’s DXVK from Github…

    Download some scripts Joshua Ashton painstakingly created from Github 🐸 to get GameGuard to work…

    Get one very specific version of Glorious Eggroll’s Wine “fork” with patches.

    Try 5 different launch options, Winetricks, and cross fingers that you get more than just the sound.

    Every update would need to get a new version of the script fork or introduce a new workaround. Those that use Lutris/PlayOnLinux would hopefully have their scripts updated within 2 days if lucky.

    Fast forward to now: Click Play and everything is set up. Hot damn.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve thrown older games at proton and wine and have made them work. Meantime the same game will work on Windows 10 with heavy modifications and does not work in 11.

      Also at work, we are dealing with a legacy app that runs… everything? Or at least just about. It works in Windows 10 but has some bugs in 11. I’m tempted to see if wine can fix the issue lol.