STALKER 2 runs on Linux day one.

[Stremniy tip]

Don't own the game but I see already people streaming it on Linux. Switch to Proton experimental which now supports frame gen.

Also since the game is very new, I still suggest to switch to Proton experimental which has the newest stuff in it.

[NightKnight]

STALKER 2 ? Wtf you can just play Half Life Alyx

[Stremniy tip]

Originally posted by N1GH7KN1GH7:

STALKER 2 ? Wtf you can just play Half Life Alyx

Seen benchmarks for STALKER 2. I am not so happy anymore

Those benchmarks were from Windows btw., but still, game seems very un-optimized.

[peppeok12]

Ultra based devs they deserve respect and my money

[Krakn3dfx]

Yeah, it runs great for me, ChimeraOS box on Proton Exp. Gamepad is not working for me currently, haven't had time to mess with it much, but Steam Input seem broken at the moment.

[Pepe]

Here, I've fixed your clickbait for you.

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

STALKER 2 runs on LinuxProton day one.

Originally posted by peppeok12:

Ultra based devs they deserve respect and my money

"Ultra based devs" would have created proper GNU/Linux binary and offer real GNU/Linux support.

[Stremniy tip]

Originally posted by Pepe:

Here, I've fixed your clickbait for you.

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

STALKER 2 runs on LinuxProton day one.

Originally posted by peppeok12:

Ultra based devs they deserve respect and my money

"Ultra based devs" would have created proper GNU/Linux binary and offer real GNU/Linux support.

Native ports are not needed and are certainly not the future. It's not clickbait. Game launches on GNU Linux day one, meaning people who have GNU Linux can play it.

Also many native ports run awful, except actively maintained ones like those from VALVE. And even those have worse performance than Proton.

[Pepe]

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

Originally posted by Pepe:

Here, I've fixed your clickbait for you.




"Ultra based devs" would have created proper GNU/Linux binary and offer real GNU/Linux support.

Native ports are not needed and are certainly not the future. It's not clickbait. Game launches on GNU Linux day one, meaning people who have GNU Linux can play it.

Oh, you have a magic globe knowing how the future looks. I see. Enjoy the moment the game will stop working a few months down the line with no support offered whatsoever because GNU/Linux is not supported. I think you're doing someone's bidding at this point.

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

Also many native ports run awful, except actively maintained ones like those from VALVE. And even those have worse performance than Proton.

Many more native games run very very well, you are generalizing.

Publishers and big AAA devs try to create the illusion you don't need native games so they can be lazy and have no legal binding to support a platform properly. There are so many small dev companies that can publish proper games cross-platform, including GNU/Linux, just fine. I rather support those.

I hope they paid you well for the advertising.

Later Edit: One thing is to be a fan of the company and try to help tell everyone about it and another is to bend the truth about the game running on GNU/Linux, meaning having full support, which it doesn't have. That's just marketing dark pattern 101.

[Stremniy tip]

Originally posted by Pepe:

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

Native ports are not needed and are certainly not the future. It's not clickbait. Game launches on GNU Linux day one, meaning people who have GNU Linux can play it.

Oh, you have a magic globe knowing how the future looks. I see. Enjoy the moment the game will stop working a few months down the line with no support offered whatsoever because GNU/Linux is not supported. I think you're doing someone's bidding at this point.

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

Also many native ports run awful, except actively maintained ones like those from VALVE. And even those have worse performance than Proton.

Many more native games run very very well, you are generalizing.

Publishers and big AAA devs try to create the illusion you don't need native games so they can be lazy and have no legal binding to support a platform properly. There are so many small dev companies that can publish proper games cross-platform, including GNU/Linux, just fine. I rather support those.

I hope they paid you well for the advertising.

Later Edit: One thing is to be a fan of the company and try to help tell everyone about it and another is to bend the truth about the game running on GNU/Linux, meaning having full support, which it doesn't have. That's just marketing dark pattern 101.

What you mentioned can be applied to native ports which can get abandoned. Proton is a translation layer of the Windows version of the game.

And I base my argument that native ports run usually worse on my own experience and on what I have read on ProtonDB.

Native ports do consume a lot of time and work compared to Proton.

There is no marketing either, since I dislike UE5 in general and STALKER 2 came out as an un-optimized mess. And now I have read that it does not even have proper A-life, which means NPCs just spawn randomly. A-life mod in STALKER makes it so the NPCs do not just spawn in, they walk around and do their stuff like real humans, STALKER 2 doesn't really have this.

[King of Yugoslavia]

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

Don't own the game but I see already people streaming it on Linux. Switch to Proton experimental which now supports frame gen.

Also since the game is very new, I still suggest to switch to Proton experimental which has the newest stuff in it.

runs perfectly fine for me on arch linux. the only big issue is performance problems, but that's universal across all platforms. CPU-bound performance bottlenecks need to be fixed on developer's side

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

And I base my argument that native ports run usually worse on my own experience and on what I have read on ProtonDB.

You're aware that ProtonDB is an obviously biased sample set?
People being happy with their native port don't go there in the first place...

[King of Yugoslavia]

Originally posted by Zyro:

Originally posted by Stremniy tip:

And I base my argument that native ports run usually worse on my own experience and on what I have read on ProtonDB.

You're aware that ProtonDB is an obviously biased sample set?
People being happy with their native port don't go there in the first place...

also for unpopular games a lot of outdated info.
also a lot of people just have some meme distros and suffer from that, unable to launch games