C#•3y ago

✅ Making games linux friendly

I play various games off the Steam launcher and they all seem to be primarily windows OS based games. If I wanted to make them Linux based friendly as well without the need of the wine application (or other alike), would I have to completely re-write the games?

MekOP•7/23/23, 4:56 AM

right now, in order to use a windows game on linux, one would need an assistant like Wine to make that possible as 99% of video games are packaged down to files, or aka windows dependent. How would I go about making them files so that they're linux friendly too?

Angius•7/23/23, 4:57 AM

You wouldn't

Angius•7/23/23, 4:57 AM

Unless you have access to the full source code and are in the clear legally to modify it and re-release it

Angius•7/23/23, 4:58 AM

And unless whatever the game was made with actually supports Linux in the first place

MekOP•7/23/23, 4:58 AM

well that was short lived dream lol so basically it's either get the company to allow me to legally access the source code, and make it linux friendly given that linux supports it, or re-write the entire game myself (illegally)

Angius•7/23/23, 4:59 AM

Basically, yes

Angius•7/23/23, 4:59 AM

But Steam's Proton got good enough recently to let you run pretty much any Windows game without the need for Wine

Angius•7/23/23, 4:59 AM

Or so I heard

Angius•7/23/23, 5:00 AM

Steam Deck works thanks to Proton after all, since it's based on Linux

MekOP•7/23/23, 5:00 AM

ok so just a theoretical question. I by no means have the balls to do this myself, but something I've always to know was if I wanted to get access to the source code of an application, how would I even begin to hack the file to do so?

AAngius Steam Deck works thanks to Proton after all, since it's based on Linux

MekOP•7/23/23, 5:00 AM

so I would download steam deck instead of steam?

Angius•7/23/23, 5:00 AM

Steam Deck is a handheld console made by Valve

Angius•7/23/23, 5:00 AM

Steam is enough

MMek ok so just a theoretical question. I by no means have the balls to do this mysel...

Angius•7/23/23, 5:01 AM

Chances are, you wouldn't

Angius•7/23/23, 5:01 AM

There are decompilers out there, but not everything can be decompiled

Angius•7/23/23, 5:01 AM

And if it can, chances are it'll look like gibberish

Angius•7/23/23, 5:02 AM

You're more likely to see in the decompiled code than

Jimmacle•7/23/23, 5:02 AM

also even provided you have clean source code and a build system it would probably be a significant amount of work to make it multi platform

Angius•7/23/23, 5:03 AM

Yeah

Angius•7/23/23, 5:03 AM

If the game was written for DX12 good luck rewriting it for OpenGL or Vulkan

Jimmacle•7/23/23, 5:03 AM

depending on the game you're looking at hundreds of thousands of lines of code or more

ero•7/23/23, 6:00 AM

The source code is also only half of what you need to build the game, most likely

ero•7/23/23, 6:01 AM

You need the levels, the art, the text

AAngius But Steam's Proton got good enough recently to let you run pretty much any Windo...

jcotton42•7/23/23, 6:18 AM

Ish
Proton is built on wine

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:39 AM

I just want to figure out a way that I can just keep my OS as linux and still play my games. Windows has me so pissed off at the moment that I wish I could just never touch the OS again. This f'n tech agent walked me through doing a fresh install with using the Windows Media Creation tool to do the reinstall with and now my computer is useless. I have no mouse drivers so no mouse. No touch screen drivers so no touch screen and no wifi drivers so even if I wanted to continue through the installation process using my keyboard to nagivate, I can't because I can't connect to a wifi service. I'm just so pissed at the moment it's not even funny

Angius•7/23/23, 6:45 AM

Proton

Angius•7/23/23, 6:45 AM

If a game doesn't work through Proton, it doesn't work on Linux period

Angius•7/23/23, 6:45 AM

And, well, good luck getting any decent touchscreen drivers on Linux lol

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:46 AM

ok I currently play all of my games on steam except for Final Fantasy XIV.

I don't need the touchscreen drivers. It was just an alternative way to navigate the screen when I was too lazy to use the touchpad or I had my laptop flipped over. It's an HP Envy 2 in 1 laptop that has a tablet mode or whatever

Angius•7/23/23, 6:47 AM

You can add non-Steam games to Steam as well, and they will run through Proton

Angius•7/23/23, 6:47 AM

So if FF is the one giving you problems, try that

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:48 AM

Idk if it's going to give me problems. I'm currently trying to fix the tech agents mistake with my computer but I doubt it's going to work because the window iso doesn't come with wifi drivers

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:49 AM

without wifi drivers, I can't get past the installation screen that asks you to connect to a network and this laptop doesn't have an ethernet port so I can't hardwire

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:52 AM

I don't even understand how an ISO file doesn't come with mouse drivers. like that just befuddles the fuck out of me

MekOP•7/23/23, 6:59 AM

I gave up on windows. I'm just erasing everything and going with linux lol when I have the money to pay an actual shop to fix and install a clean windows os, I might do it.

AAngius You can add non-Steam games to Steam as well, and they will run through Proton