obobskivich |
11-05-2023 07:08 PM |
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Originally Posted by Tilly
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@obobskivich - Don't worry - I'm not discourage-able! Skyrim running via Steam and Linux will freeze sometimes (no worse than on Windows) but my first games were played on the ZX81 - thereafter I played large rpg on sometimes very flaky systems so I'm a) used to saving frequently and b) shrugging my shoulders when something goes wrong. Someone playing on Linux (maybe it was here or Steam) said that they'd done something to Skyrim/Wine/Proton and now their game was broken in 'new and interesting ways' and really it's a philosophy I go with. Getting the game stable via Steam, Proton, Wine and the zillions of mods is really a lot of fun; and sometimes I think I enjoy that more than the actual gaming.
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Spoken like a true Elder Scrolls diehard...:p
One thing I will note, since switching to Linux full-time for gaming a few years back, I've actually had significantly fewer crashes in the various Creation/Gamebryo-based games - Skyrim can still be the on the pokey side, but I honestly do not remember Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 4 (which are on 'either side' of Skyrim in terms of releaase) running so well on Windows. Even in the limited testing I've done via Porting Kit (for macOS) everything is generally pretty 'stable,' and most of the performance oddness I've seen in a handful of games probably has more to do with Rosetta2's involvement than the game itself. Always something to faff about with on the weekend, that's for sure. :study:
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I play Skyrim still and Oblivion and Morrowind - I completed Fallout3 and the various DLC to it but I never got far with Fallout 4. I guessed the ending and I never ever felt at home there... I don't think Starfield will be my game either. But I'd like to see what Bethesda have done... it might point the way to TES6.
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I notice there's no mention of Fallout New Vegas here - if you haven't tried it, it's worth a look. It's built on a heavily kitbashed version of Fallout 3 (this is one of the developer's own words), but has an entirely unrelated story (it tries to pick-up from where the Interplay-era games were set). If Fallout 3 runs well on your system, New Vegas should have no problems either (they have very similar system requirements on Windows, and came out barely two years apart).
I will freely admit to being quite cynical of post-Microsoft Bethesda, especially after Fallout 76, and haven't really paid much attention to Starfield or any prognistications about Fallout 5, TES6, etc as a result - at this point I won't be surprised if/when they make the whole thing Xbox/Games For Windows Live (well, whatever they call it today, but the idea remains alive and well) exclusive, packed to the brim with pay-to-win mechanics, and the DRM functionality likely breaks compatibility with Linux. Then again, they did just release Fallout 4 on GOG, which I think surprised a lot of people, and Skyrim was finally released (albeit only as the 'remastered' edition) on GOG not so long ago, both as DRM-free (and in Skyrim's case even with all the extra MTX DLC - Fallout 4 they seem unable to help themselves though, and the $300+ of MTX is still not included). There's a lot of other games out there though, and it isn't like old games vanish from the world, so life goes on. :twocents:
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