WEI on 26/12/2023 at 20:36
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Is playing The Black Parade on a Linux rig a doomed endeavor?
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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.
Same here with GOG version.
Heroic Launcher is great for that because it has the option "run EXE on prefix" allowing you to install Tfix, Openal for EAX and other stuff with ease. If only steam could do the same..
WEI on 26/12/2023 at 20:47
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Yeah, it's not the issue - it's the intel codec that was used for those movies. Likely if you try the black parade you'll see it's movies just fine.
Made me realise I always install higher quality versions of these movies, even when I was on windows, even for Shock2. I would never have guessed xD
vfig on 26/12/2023 at 23:44
Quote Posted by Kerrle
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.
or you can use TFix Lite, which is just a .zip with files to copy in. it doesnt come with any of the optional mods, but thats already ideal for the black parade. the GOG release of thief gold already comes with TFix Lite 1.26 preinstalled.
Kerrle on 28/12/2023 at 16:46
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Same here with GOG version.
Heroic Launcher is great for that because it has the option "run EXE on prefix" allowing you to install Tfix, Openal for EAX and other stuff with ease. If only steam could do the same..
Yeah, it would be nice for them to add that option, maybe in the compatibility tab. You can do it via launch arguments but that's a power user level thing. They could just have a drop down to select which game's prefix to use.
Esme on 9/1/2024 at 15:18
I have a thought about Thief on Linux
Whoever it was released the latest version of the Dark engine has access to a copy of the source code, trust me the number of fixes & features was not someone poking around with a hex editor**
I can't help wondering how difficult it would be to port that to Linux & have a native code version instead of using WINE
**If it was someone poking around with a hex editor then they are a coding GOD never mind wizard
Kerrle on 13/1/2024 at 06:38
It's a Direct X game, so doing it native would mean completely rewriting the renderer with Vulkan in mind.
And no, Newdark wasn't done by editing the old EXE. Thief source leaked years ago. That's part of why they remain anonymous; it hasn't been officially cleared.