Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts | GamingOnLinux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/proton-experimental-adds-fixes-for-various-games-not-running-on-cpus-with-high-core-counts/

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17lifers@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 360d (3 replies)

oops, too many cores, no game for u :3

Peffse@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 360d

I still remember guides saying to go into BIOS and disable Hyper-Threading or any additional cores if you wanted to play specific mid-2000 games. Then when that wasn't going well, the guides had ways to select core affinity.

I specifically remember Unreal Tournament 3 that would crash with a "Negative Delta Time" error since the secondary thread could process a frame before the first thread and cause time to flow backwards. The more things change, the more they stay the same. haha

Envy@fedia.io · 8 pts · 360d (1 reply)
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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 359d

I really hope any remaster/remake of those games updates them to 64bit so we can address more ram, and as a result.. have more mods.

cause the ram limitation, even with the 4gb enabler, is the biggest headache for those games.

Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 360d
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