Linux support for Poe 2

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navigator4223#0403 wrote:

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Timbo Zero#8289 wrote:

Been years since I used Linux properly (still use it a a dumb node) but isn’t there some ‘windows emulator’ think it was called Wine or Vine or something?
Might be able to get PoE to run under that on a juicy PC

We use Proton nowadays, and it's a native implementation of large portions of the Windows API under Linux, not an emulation.

Most games work, and PoE also runs on the Steam Deck (I have tested it myself), which is also a Linux box (you can even get to a proper desktop, work on the console and I was even considering installing i3 as my window manager on it for bragging rights).

Thing is: a native Linux implementation would be even better, and we do not know at the moment how well PoE2 will operate in a Proton environment, but I think I will test this a few days after the 11th, when I'm able to take my fingers off the EA for an hour or two.

Good to know, did say it’s been a few years.
If Proton is essentially a UWP platform and your hardware is good enough you’re sorted imo
Wouldn’t hold my breath for a dedicated Linux version, they’ve never done one and doubtful they have a team currently to do one. But all things change

A native client for linux is way to difficult, because they have to develop for 3 operatings systems then. I would just enough if everything just works with wine/proton.
There are games that run better with proton then on a windows machine. I would be really fine with that, but maybe they have a few things to do for it.
Thats the reason why i asked if it was tested from someone. Playing Poe 1 on linux for a while now and it works perfect.

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bennisen#4006 wrote:

A native client for linux is way to difficult, because they have to develop for 3 operatings systems then. I would just enough if everything just works with wine/proton.
There are games that run better with proton then on a windows machine. I would be really fine with that, but maybe they have a few things to do for it.
Thats the reason why i asked if it was tested from someone. Playing Poe 1 on linux for a while now and it works perfect.

No one, allegedly, has EA yet except GGG. That’s a no, no one has tested it yet.

It will probably be easy to run in Steam with Proton Experimental, which is embedded in the client. However, it is best to wait and see first reports of the early access in ProtonDB.

To all the Linux users, I recommend using WSL.
You get all the Linux functionality you need on top of your Windows.
I use standalone Linux for low specs laptops only. Both due to the lack of need to pay for the OS, as well as because some Linux distros are both lightweight and offer a great UI, such as Zorin OS, which is an Ubuntu fork.

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To all the Linux users, I recommend using WSL.

Thanks for the advice, but I think I’ll pass on that one — my Linux mascot might riot if I boot into Windows to ‘use’ Linux.
That said, I’ve been gaming on Linux for 10+ years, and POE has been fantastic. Hoping POE 2 follows suit — guess we’ll know soon enough!

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Palagachev#5402 wrote:

To all the Linux users, I recommend using WSL.
You get all the Linux functionality you need on top of your Windows.
I use standalone Linux for low specs laptops only. Both due to the lack of need to pay for the OS, as well as because some Linux distros are both lightweight and offer a great UI, such as Zorin OS, which is an Ubuntu fork.

The main reason I left Windows is because I had enough of telemetry annoyance, which ties in with privacy concerns (I have 3 separate hard drives in my case on to of two SSDs, and my harddrives would spin up every single day for a long time as Windows Telemetry service went up, and it's not like I had anything Windows related on those drives).

With that said, I would really appreciate if anyone tried PoE2 on Linux, on either Steam or Lutris.
Kinda surprised GGG didn't do any statement such as "from our internal testing on sample Linux environment of xxx/yyy the game does/does not run in Linux environment".
Doing a quick dualboot or even LiveCD Linux environment installation and a test wouldn't take more than 2 hours for a savvy tech user.

How could they, they don’t know your hardware. They also haven’t said how well it runs on Windows because they again can’t tell what hardware you have.


If for ridiculous sake they came and said it runs at 92% of windows performance on our test rig, what does that tell you? Nothing, their test rig could (again being ridiculous) be a quantum rig with 100cores for all we know.

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Timbo Zero#8289 wrote:

How could they, they don’t know your hardware. They also haven’t said how well it runs on Windows because they again can’t tell what hardware you have.


If for ridiculous sake they came and said it runs at 92% of windows performance on our test rig, what does that tell you? Nothing, their test rig could (again being ridiculous) be a quantum rig with 100cores for all we know.

It appears that you aren't very well versed with how games work on either windows or linux these days.
It's not a matter of hardware, but if the current Linux implementation of directx and system32 syswow64 has the libraries required to run the game - like the notorious Media Foundation issue. If the game can run in Vulkan mode for example, then it's pretty much certain it will work.

The drivers are pretty universal for the several previous generations. Nvidia drivers are less reliable on Linux, but still capable of running pretty much everything.

So in the end it's an issue whether PoE2 is using some kind of newest version of mf.dll or windows media, which could brick the game.

It is reasonable to conclude that POE2 will be compatible with Proton. The majority of games function seamlessly through Proton, and those that don't typically encounter issues due to unsupported anti-cheat systems rather than Proton itself. Given that POE1 works without issue, it seems highly unlikely that POE2 would face compatibility problems.