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Yakuza 0 Linux test

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I’ve been wanting to check out Yakuza 0 for awhile now, and figured why not try it and see how well it performs with via Proton? Performance wise its a nice steady 60fps with everything turned up with only a few dips during cutscenes and once running through the streets of Kamurocho. There were no graphical glitches , but I did kind of run into a wall in game play. As I tried to perform a rush combo the game crashes instantly to desktop. I’ve tried changing a couple settings but it fails to progress. I’ve even tried rolling back to the non beta branch of Proton, but that only causes the game to not load at all. Perhaps this will remedy itself in future releases. Still, this kinda felt like a tease to me. Everything was going so well until I had to right click. :v: Of course right clicking itself isn’t an issue, but something about performing that combo causes Yakuza to commit Seppuku. :morty:

I’ll have to give this game a go on my Windows side, if it performs this well graphically under Linux I imagine it’ll be just fine under Win 10. Seems to be really well optimized. :happy:

SteamPlay testing 9/3/18

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Here’s today’s roundup of games tested under Proton using some more modern game titles:

  • Quantum Break: Worked until I tried to talk to one of the NPC’s on campus, then it Quantum Broke my machine and I had to restart. Frame rate was extremely low despite setting to the lowest settings.
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: Other than some small strange facial glitches the game ran perfectly with no performance impact whatsoever on the highest settings. Praise Vulkan!

Wolfenstein II was most of my prime focus for today, felt good to blast nazi’s again AND on a different platform! I’m surprised it hasn’t been whitelisted yet. For me this runs better than DOOM 2016 (which would be perfect if I could figure out how to get the damned mouse to function). I wish Quantum Break worked just as well… I played that under Windows 10 last night and I think I’ll have fun with that one. I think I’ll save that game for another post though, it was a lot to take in despite only having played it for an hour.