steamtinkerlaunch

I'm familiar with MO2 from when I used windows, but I had a hard time getting it working on Linux. First problem was getting it installed. I found https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch which is supposed to let you install it into each game's wine/proton prefix which worked, but when I then tried to launch the game it would run with absolute terribile performance (like even just the title screen would lag and stutter...) How did you install it? Maybe with a different method it would work for me better (even though now I'll probably just stick with my own tool I'm still curious)

Biggest I know of is https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/blob/master/st... 27k lines/24k loc

Overall, if you are willing to deal with some annoyances, give it a try, it might cover your use cases. SteamVR is playable, but not at Windows level and rough around the edges. I personally run an Index on a 4080 Super (previously 3080) via the SteamVR runtime. System details in case it matters: Arch Linux Zen kernel, X11 (i3), Nvidia drivers, SteamVR Beta, usually a recent Proton GE version. I remember playing Beat Saber, including modded [1], Until You Fall, Pistol Whip, Raw Data and After the Fall without issues. Non-steam applications outside Steam can also work, I have a launch script that sets up the env vars for Proton, should be easier via Lutris. I see some problems however. VR itself is not as smooth as it should be, 100% playable, but not as smooth as I remember it ages ago on Windows or using a FOSS VR [4] stack (which has ot

I play video games. Things have actually changed a heck of a lot in the last couple of years and seem to be accelerating thanks to the Steam Deck. 90% of the games I care about now work fine in Linux, sometimes with a little massaging (there are also now many more tools and forum posts to help with this). Modding certain things is occasionally the biggest impediment but that too is getting easier thanks to stuff like https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch , which if you use the Flatpak Steam can be installed via the app installer right alongside it.

I found it in a round about way too, could use some better publicity maybe. You can also use this to enable side-by-side 3D in VR, so like the old Nvidia 3D shutter glasses that made games pop out of a flat screen, you can see that in your virtual screen in VR. Take a look at SteamTinkerLaunch [0] to set that up (currently helping organize that giant readme, but the info is all there to play around with [1]). [0] https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch [1] https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch#Side-by-Side-... Edit: I should say side-by-side mode works for games with it builtin (like Trine) but can also use shader injection to emulate this which can work pretty well too.