• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    7 hours ago

    A few years ago I bought Star Wars squadrons in steam. It hasn’t worked in years (I never made it through the single player story.) I never understood why. It was not my antivirus, it was not my VPN. It wasn’t even my OS. I used Windows 11 briefly (I originally had it on windows 10) and it still didn’t work. I am on Linux mint and it doesn’t boot up.

    Now recently I bought RoboCop Rogue city on steam. I originally had it pirated, but on Linux mint it had a hard time booting up. I thought buying it would fix that.

    Nope. It did not. Now I spent 40$ on a digital paperweight.

    If we pay for something. We have a reasonable expectation for it to work.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      I hate to be that guy but did you try changing which version of proton its using? I know for some games you gotta change it for it to boot properly.

      I do agree though it should just work, but you gotta remember unlike consoles PCs are made of many different parts and not all agree with eachother. Developers can only test so many configurations.

      I remember when no man’s sky came out, so many people had issues while mine booted and worked properly. Thankfully steam does offer refunds.

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        4 hours ago

        To add on to this, sometimes it’s better to switch from the linux runtime to proton. Most of the time when I have problems with a game running, it turns out they tried to support linux but for some reason the compatibility isn’t there like it is with proton. At least I assume it’s compatibility because they had to have tested it on some systems at least.