Currently, I game on ALL of my Linux Mint clients to some extent. Some are more limited than others, usually based on age or (lack of) Expandability. At the strongest is my Lenovo N720 Desktop which has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB GDDR5 card in it, and 32GB of RAM, and at the weakest would be the desktop I have attached to the TV, a Micro Dell 7060 machine, which mostly acts as a "streaming device" for the aforementioned Lenovo.

Here's what I'm going to tell you, and not going to tell you, at a glance. I will tell you gaming on linux is posible, and generally, as good as, sometimes better, sometimes not so much, than Windows. I won't tell you, however, that it's as EASY as it is on a Windows system - hence this page.

The next layer down are games intended for Windows that don't take a lot of messing around to work. For me, these are mostly older Win-16 and Win-32 stuff that runs well natively on WINE, or have a decent install script on a WINE Frontent like LUTRIS, Play on Linux, or Bottles.

Next down is Virtual Machines - which I have a luxury of being able to use on the Lenovo because 32GB of RAM is plenty for Linux + a couple sizeable (were talking Win 7 x86 or older) Virtual Machines roaming around in RAM somewhere.

THen the last layer are things that are so bloody fiddly you're lucky to get them working....the worst being the Robot Arena 2: Design Destroy in my experience, which is one of my favorites from Infogrames, but also one of the most irritating to get working on a Windows system.

The Backrooms: Found Footage - This was one of hte first games to drive me to get an actual proper GPU. While I did get it working with Proton 7.0.6 on a 4th gen Core i5 a couple times, it didn't run so great on that system, so I have stuck to anything with an NVIDIA or AMD Card in it. Most of the time I opt to run this one on the Lenovo for obvious reasons. The reason it's really slow in the first "level" of the backrooms is because the devs made "Level 0" so tremendously huge that it puts all but the highest spec Threadripper to a real test. Tends to run best windowed at the lowest resolution, but runs decently enough on the Lenovo with everything at "mid". One MAJOR bug with this game is the menus are all off-center and kind of hard to manipulate.

Drive Beyond Horizons (Bemo) - Drive Beyond Horizons Demo I initially had to use 7.0.6 Protoon to get around the video card limitations, but once I upgraded to a 750 TI in the Lenovo, I didn't have to use it anymore. It runs great straight-up on Linux Mint Cinnamon and gives you little trouble. Also needs a -dx11 for a startup option. I no longer use PRoton and run it bare these days.

Drive Beyond Horizons (Full Version) - Same as above, except Tacty Studios was smart enough to put the DX11/DX12 option in a dropdown in the game's pre-start menus. It takes up a little more CPU overhead due to the higher content, and sometimes the computer can get a bit ahead of the proceedural generation of the landscape and in-game assets, but otherwise it runs fine.

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