Hi everyone!

I’m a Playstation gamer looking into moving to Linux gaming as the next Playstation might not be able to play physical games.

Here are my 2 computers:

MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded) with Fedora 41

Surface Go 1 with Fedora 41

I bought Frostpunk on Steam after checking on Proton DB that it would normally run on the MacBook as I knew the Surface Go would probably be way too weak.

According to Proton DB it’s a Gold game.

In the end, no matter what version of Proton I use, it doesn’t launch on the MacBook. I have a black screen, some icy sounds and then it crashes at best…

I then thought, let’s give it a try on the Surface Go and it launched immediately without any tinkering using Proton experimental.

But, the game crashes when the firat cinematic starts, probably because it’s loading too many assets for the Surface.

If anyone has an idea about what to try too many get it working on the MacBook, I would be thankful.

In the meantime, I would want to know, how do you know if a game is gonna run on your machine?

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        great game, i can recommend it. Altrough it is very short, almost anybody can finish it in 3 hours or less. All early Fallout games (1-2-3, maybe even New Vegas with compromises) would run. Far Cry 3 on 720p low, Far Cry 1 and 2 would run well. Crysis 1, 2 too. Sleeping Dogs 720p low. Minecraft too if opengl 4.5 is aviable. Resident Evil 5, Half Life 1-2, Alien Isolation 720p low, CS Source, CS 1.6, Tomb Raider 720p low. maybe these would work and worth trying. Generally, most games made before 2010 should run. The weakest part is the gpu, the strongest is the RAM

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Fallout: New Vegas lists an ATI X1300XT as the minimum and 2GB of RAM. That card has a Passmark score of 69. I’d guess that he’d probably be more than fine.

          IIRC, New Vegas was really CPU-constrained, too, not GPU-constrained, and the systems he’s using are probably pretty comparable to any other system from the time CPU-wise – it’s just that they don’t have discrete 3D hardware.

          • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 days ago

            btw it is pretty hard to launch on modern systems, as it was made with Windows Vista and 7 in mind

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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              2 days ago

              I mean, he’s using Linux, so it’d run on Proton. I’m pretty sure that it just fires right up. I don’t think that I did anything special myself.

              Getting Mod Organizer 2 set up to mod it or something like that might be more-obnoxious on Linux, but honestly, I’d say that Linux plus Proton might compare favorably against current Windows when it comes to backwards compatibility on older games. I’ve read a bunch of Steam descriptions where there are a bunch of upset reviews from people saying that they can’t get a game working on current Windows, and it just runs on Proton without problems or configuration for me.