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Going to settings in linux steam and enabling steamplay and steamplay-for-all makes Dark-wind work natively on linux. I'm using proton 3.7-8 (steam's compatibility option ((in same settings))) and everything I've tried works out of the box. Unsure about tactical.

I'm unsure if Steamplay is still in steam beta or if it's been released. You had to opt in to steam beta before, unsure now. Should be an option for Steamplay under Steam's settings.

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Posted Jun 29, 2019, 10:33 pm	Last edited Jun 29, 2019, 10:50 pm by Groovelle

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I'm running Ubuntu and trying to make this work - no luck...

I'm trying Proton 3.7-8, but gonna try a different one...

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Posted Dec 28, 2019, 1:32 am

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It works for me pretty well using proton experimental. I have had a small bug in regard to opening up the web client in steam though.

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Posted Aug 7, 2022, 6:28 pm

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I been running linux mint, and the issue i ran in to was that my GPU was older and no longer supported by the base kernel. I have to downgrade to an older kernel 6.8 to get the 470 nvidia driver set to work without a problem. Didn't have to reinstall mint, just change the kernel, amazed it's so easy to do, compared to being used to windows.

After downgrading the kernel and installing the official nvidia 470 driver;

Right-click the game in Steam and go to Properties.

Set Compatibility to Proton 8.0 (or Experimental).

In Launch Options, type exactly: %command% -force-opengl

without the force opengl command, sometimes it will still make directx calls and i think that's where a lot of the client crashes happen even in windows

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Posted May 26, 2026, 5:52 am	Last edited May 26, 2026, 3:25 pm by RANXEROX