Then you can run whatever you want under proton, though this isnt "officially" supported so you might have an odd glitch or 2. But if it runs on steam proton fine enough, it shouldn't be much different
OK I didnt know you could run older games from windows xp through steam I'll try to figure it out, I was watching a video last night about using lutris and how to mount the iso from archive.org
Go to your Steam library, and on the bottom left, click the "+" and then click "add non-steam game" browse to the exe and add it. Then go to the game in your library, hit the gear and go to properties. Go to compatibility, and you should be able to choose your desired Proton version from the drop down. Then launch the game through Steam.
This is from memory so it might not be exact, but it's close.
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MrSoup@lemmy.zip · 56 pts · 301d
It's D7VK
morto@piefed.social · 48 pts · 301d
Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.
TeddE@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 301d
Soon? Let's talk DOSBox
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 13 pts · 301d
For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there's 86Box.
refalo@programming.dev · 7 pts · 301d
dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.
Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 2 pts · 300d
Bookmarking softgpu that's a great link, thanks.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 300d
Already does.
fascicle@leminal.space · 4 pts · 301d
What can I use to play kingdom under fire a war of heroes I think it was on windows xp
cm0002@futurology.today · 7 pts · 301d
Looks like it's supported on proton, silver
https://www.protondb.com/app/1315200
So install it through steam and it should be playable
fascicle@leminal.space · 1 pts · 301d
Yeah but the steam one seems kind of sketch reading the reviews
cm0002@futurology.today · 5 pts · 301d
Ah then what you want is probably umu launcher
Then you can run whatever you want under proton, though this isnt "officially" supported so you might have an odd glitch or 2. But if it runs on steam proton fine enough, it shouldn't be much different
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 300d
You don't need to buy it on Steam to launch it through Steam
fascicle@leminal.space · 1 pts · 300d
OK I didnt know you could run older games from windows xp through steam I'll try to figure it out, I was watching a video last night about using lutris and how to mount the iso from archive.org
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 300d
Go to your Steam library, and on the bottom left, click the "+" and then click "add non-steam game" browse to the exe and add it. Then go to the game in your library, hit the gear and go to properties. Go to compatibility, and you should be able to choose your desired Proton version from the drop down. Then launch the game through Steam.
This is from memory so it might not be exact, but it's close.