Baal on 16/12/2023 at 22:03
Quote Posted by Anarchic Fox
Is playing The Black Parade on a Linux rig a doomed endeavor?
No, it works perfectly well. The codec problem doesn't even apply to The Black Parade as its movies use a different video format.
Anarchic Fox on 16/12/2023 at 23:24
Quote Posted by Kerrle
Nah, it works fine and has for years - my first post about it here was from like 15 years ago.
Quote Posted by Baal
No, it works perfectly well. The codec problem doesn't even apply to The Black Parade as its movies use a different video format.
Good to hear!
Kerrle on 17/12/2023 at 00:54
For the record, I just finished my initial playthrough of The Black Parade last night, and I did the whole thing on arch linux. No issues and alt-tabbing arguably works more consistently than in Windows.
If you're using Steam, the only thing that is any harder (or even different) than Windows is running TFix; the easiest way to do it is to just add the installer as a non-steam game and tell steam to run it with Proton via the compatibility tab. You can remove it from Steam after it's been run.
But you don't have to use Steam; if you have any vaguely modern version of wine set up on your system you can just run both Thief and TFix through that.
I moved exclusively to linux at the end of May and gaming basically just works now - the only exception is some online multiplayer titles that use rootkit level anticheat, and I don't play any of those.
Valve's work on Proton for the Steamdeck has had major benefits for linux users, whether you use their platform or not.
Anarchic Fox on 17/12/2023 at 02:52
Quote Posted by Kerrle
Valve's work on Proton for the Steamdeck has had major benefits for linux users, whether you use their platform or not.
It has!!! Most of what I buy works without fuss. Most of the remainder works after heading backwards a release or two of Proton.
Risen 2 doesn't work, though. I'm a little mad about that.
Anarchic Fox on 17/12/2023 at 08:24
Oh, there are some new ProtonDB suggestions since last I tried. Thanks.
katt on 17/12/2023 at 15:28
Quote Posted by Anarchic Fox
Is playing The Black Parade on a Linux rig a doomed endeavor?
I'm currently playing it on Linux, so no. :p And Thief/Thief II also works for me.
Necroitmutox on 17/12/2023 at 23:35
Deleting ir50_32.dll and ir41_32.dll from my Thief 2 root folder worked for me.
Baal on 18/12/2023 at 13:24
Thanks for the hint. I haven't thought of that (I didn't even know these files were still there). That did it for me too. Shock 2 and both Thiefs now work with the newer ProtonGE builds. Cool.
desin on 19/12/2023 at 10:17
Thanks
First apply TFix / T2Fix
then remove ir50_32.dll and ir41_32.dll
works