Often times, games that have a native Linux runtime will still play better using proton and the Windows version. So try that with cs2. Only source game I’ve played is HL2 (recently) and i think I might have had to switch to Proton for it to run well, but I forget.

There isn’t really anything wrong to do… The first time you load up a game, it might take a little bit longer, so you might have to let it sit for a minute while Steam says “exit” instead of “play game” (meaning the button you click in Steam to start the game). That’s only the first load, after that, it should load right up.

You might also want to look at you settings for loading shaders (steam settings). I prefer to compile shaders before the game starts so as to avoid stuttering in the first few min, but it can also make it so it takes an additional 30 sec or so to open the game.

Another suggestion I’d have is to get proton-GE. Basically it’s some dude’s custom proton release that usually has better compatibility and often works better than official (if you want to avoid having to download a separate program, try “proton experimental” in your Steam compatibility options).

But getting proton-GE is easy. You have to switch to desktop mode once and use Discover (app store basically) to download “protonupQT” (I believe, this is all from memory so it might be slightly off). You can run that app in desktop mode, or do what I do and go back to game mode and add it as a “non-Steam game”. Now you can update proton-ge without having to go into desktop mode…

Anyway, I’m sure that seems like a lot but it’s really not. Hope it helps.

Edit: I’m just realizing now that your didn’t mean “Counter Strike,” but rather “Cities Skylines”. Yeah, can’t speak to the performance there. Still worth trying Windows version with proton

All of them… Lol. Way too big of a back log.

But I just picked up Tape to Tape and it’s super fun. Giving me vibes of old 16bit hockey games. What else…

I finally got Neon White on PC. Got it way back when it came out on Switch and played a little, but really prefer mouse and keyboard for fps. Very fun game.

Lorn’s Lure is another one I’ve been playing a lot. Amazing game, nothing quite like it.

Was enjoying UFO50, but haven’t picked it up in a couple weeks. Gonna go back to it.

What about you

Yeah, life saver. If you like impossible to break OS, check out an immutable/Atomic distro (I’m on Bazzite). One command to rollback to previous build.

rpm-ostree will change your life… Lol JK. It’s cool though.

I meant the:

-force-d3d12

one. Might need to put “%command%” after it, but I’m still not 100% sure what that even means and why its there so I dunno.

Edit: I would also check out the entry for the game on ProtonDB if you haven’t already (sorry if someone else has already told you all this elsewhere in the thread) to see if anyone else has had similar issues: https://www.protondb.com/app/949230

I haven’t played C:S2 yet, so I can’t say personally, but it could just be a poorly optimized game.

Yeah, it’s probably my own fault. I tend to …over-tinker(?) when I have something as deeply customizable as Arch/KDE. Bazzite has saved me from that for the most part, though I do like getting my KDE just right.

But yeah, with large updates I will sometimes get an error about “libalpm” or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah… Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.

This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn’t realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.

Timeshift was/is a lifesaver on that laptop. Though I think having it as a fallback did make me a little more reckless with my tinkering… But I’m relatively new to Linux, and that’s how I learn.

I turned an older laptop with EndeavourOS on it (Arch, btw) on yesterday for the first time in like 4 months, and tried updating it… 666 updates. I knew I was in for a good time… Let me tell you, the dependency hell… I believe it was what Picasso was picturing while painting La Guernica.

Ultimately, I had to upgrade it in batches or else it would just break every time. So yes, Arch is the hot young girls dancing around breaking shit if you don’t check in on them.

Running immutable/atomic on my current main pc, and updating is basically an afterthought and impossible to fuck up. Hard to go back.

Did you try their fix? Often it really is as easy as adding a launch option

I’m running Bazzite, and haven’t had a single issue running a game…

How to know someone hasn’t gamed on Linux in years.

Not like that at all now.

Protondb is the place to check.

Animal Well is one of the best games of the year. So good.

The less you know about anything going into it, the better.

I’ve found that Proton-GE works every time regular proton doesn’t. Haven’t tried it with Disgaea 4 specifically though.

Huh, pacman always seemed to automatically work out those dependency loops, or whatever you want to call them, when I was on EndeavourOS. The only time I had an issue with updating was when I went like two weeks without updating, and then ran out of harddrive space halfway through installing the 600 updates.

I’ve been running Bazzite for several months now, and updating is absurdly easy and unintrusive. It’s basically impossible to fuckup (and if you do, it’s extremely simple to rollback). I can really see immutable/atomic being the future of Linux.

Perhaps its just gotten better, but I’ve been on it for a year or two now, and I haven’t come across an error message that didn’t bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google. Definitely varies by distro though, I was on EndeavourOS for most of that time, and being Arch, it has like infinite documentation.

Most normal people are nervous interacting with a GUI pop-up that gives them two options, never mind putting them into a terminal window where they could seriously fuck up their machine

Maybe this is a problem that we should be addressing, rather than just making technology more of a black box, and raising generations of people who have no fucking concept of how any of it works.

no restart required

Not true for immutable

Monero is untraceable. You can swap Bitcoin, or basically any other crypto, for it on decentralized exchanges and once you have Monero it’s a black hole. At least as of now, owning Monero isn’t illegal. And it’s impossible to track once it’s swapped.

Edit: oh, sans Monero. Yeah pretty much.

You might want to look into what this dude was actually doing because he was really stupid. On like over a dozen occasions, he live streamed leaked games, days to weeks before their release.

He also sent Nintendo messages taunting them.

Dude deserves it.

It kind of just seems like you aren’t very good at determining what’s important to read/click and what’s not.

Or maybe you’re just bad at doing searches?

Once installed, I think you can often even run the exe of the pirated game through Steam as a “non-steam app” using Proton