Steam Windows games on SteamOS
138I have (by my standards) a huge library of Windows games.
Games that I bought long ago when I still considered gaming on Windows or leftovers from bundles I bought for certain Linux games.
In time some of those got ported to Linux, but most didn't and probably never will. I don't usually buy games for Windows but I'm stuck with these and also recently I bought (because I really wanted) the recent Wolfenstein games and few others.
So although I gave up on Wine gaming I thought it was time to try again, see what's the state of it now.
Well, it worked out very well. It is of course Wine, and you have to be prepared to tweak certain things and encounter various bugs and so on, but generally speaking it worked much better than what I was expecting.
It actually turned out that it is uncommon to see a game NOT working. I had surprisingly very few issues while the performance was really good and the Xbox controller was working also very well (force feedback included). Wine really improved over time.
Also the games were easy to integrate in the SteamOS interface and what I considered once lost games out of my reach, are now playable titles from within the comfort of my couch without having to perform cumbersome maneuvers to start them.
The performance is good enough (usually excellent) even allowing me to record the gameplay at 60 FPS, which really takes up some CPU power.
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