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    10 months ago

    Xbox cloud seems like a decent alternative when games simply don’t run easily on Linux

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      10 months ago

      are there any games not running easily in linux these days?

      i mean apart from games with anticheat blocking it.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, of course. There are plenty. I couldn’t play Ghostwire Tokyo at all. And Ghostrunner required some random Windows package, vc2019 or something like that. That’s just off the top of my head.

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          10 months ago

          From epic freebies? I got it running by just installing vcrun via wine tricks button in heroic launcher. Steam games usually install these at first launch behind the scenes.

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          10 months ago

          oh, most games need visual C runtimes nowadays.

          i find that i have this sort of issue often with pirated games, sometimes they don’t automatically install those like Steam does, but its the same fix as Windows.

          you can simply run the .exe installer for VC on the same prefix, exactly like you would do on windows, so not any harder at all.

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            10 months ago

            you can simply run the .exe installer for VC on the same prefix, exactly like you would do on windows, so not any harder at all.

            I don’t know what any of that means but it’s not something I ever had to do with Windows.

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              10 months ago

              @helenslunch @umbrella A lot of Windows games need vc runtime or other libraries installed on the system.

              Steam users got this managed from the installer (also in linux) but if you install it manually from the game installer chances are that the installer may not manage their dependences.

              On linux world you can get a lot of oresets using lutris btw

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                10 months ago

                Yes I understand all of that. My point is, once again, this is additional configuration I never had to figure out with Windows.

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              10 months ago

              i never had to do this for original games on any os.

              windows needs this sometimes if you pirate, so does linux.

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                  10 months ago

                  in any case you can download it from microsoft and run it to install.

                  OR, to make it simpler some launchers like heroic offer an option to automatically install it, it should be under the option winetricks or similar. dunno if thats your case tho.

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                    10 months ago

                    Yes I’m aware. That’s what I said I did. The point being that it wasn’t as simple as it is on Windows.

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      10 months ago

      Xbox cloud requires a controller, which kinda defeats the purpose of playing on PC imho.

      That said, it DOES work well if you’re into that kinda thing. I tested it out with MS Edge installed via flatpak.