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Thanks, Booman! :)

I just want stable independent play on Linux to not be impacted adversely by anything. Very bad health, and simplicity/privacy help with that. I left windows to get away from corporate/privacy issues, and, with respect, don't really want to get into Proton stuff. I just appreciated your simple...

I agree; seems a heck of a faff :confused: and it's a shame that many won't be able to have confidence about whether or not a game will run or continue to run in the future. Many bug reports/issues, about what you describe. I can't imagine all those games being tested, so fingers crossed it...

Thanks Booman! :) I can understand saving the text file as exe, but am not sure what the DVI part is, eek. Sorry.

Looks a lot of fun; thanks for another great guide! I noticed you said about resizing for non-widescreen games ... the occasional older game [colin mcrae 2005 at this point] rearranges desktop icons/widgets (KDE). I'll try ... Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows" Check...

You're right; all of this 'rely on online, not yourself' I don't think is a good direction ... if people don't even get the chance to steadily read, learn and fix things, that's not fair, or even natural. There'll just be far more frustrated people, playing a lot smaller range of games. And...

That's great, Booman ... your guides are wonderful, really important for play and for giving choice and privacy. Thank you, and, yes, POL4 keeps chugging along fine ... even if no further development goes into it, will what is there now stay, no matter what? As you say, it REALLY would be in...

Hopefully they will enable dx9 scripts, as you're right; your guides clearly show that different games need different solutions. Both POL5 and Valve reducing options isn't good ... in the light of Valve cutting out dx9, POL5 even more needs to ensure independent installs can be done, not just...

That's quite a thing to discover; the Proton release certainly didn't emphasize that, lol, as many may have not been quite so excited if they'd known that ... I also thought 'play dx10/11' meant there'd be no issue with dx9 games. I haven't even touched Proton, but, just doing a quick search...

Good luck to them, definitely, but I'm a little puzzled why, with Lutris/Proton etc, they would want to do a similar thing, when POL4 is unique and surely less work to maintain. A very ambitious plan, especially when low on manpower and, sadly, support. I'm very new to linux and all of this, so...

Hopefully it'll take ages and ages more, and, in that time, they'll realise that including every POL 4 feature is how to be really popular, lol. Definitely better to work steadily and get things right. Does that also mean it could be quite a long time before POL4 is retired to a pasture...

Good summary, and I agree; it's not impressive, and, as you point out, more likelihood of games breaking (due to scripts etc) seems to be being brought IN, which, along with abandoning the better independent options of POL4, just seems deliberately regressive. Better to add to POL4, as we...

I just had a quick try of the deb, via live usb [don't want to mess up current system], and it did install a little dx9 game, but suggests lower specs eg xp/wine 3.0.2, instead of win7/latest wine ... that can be changed, but I found the wine 3.16 version I chose wouldn't download so no install...

Thanks Booman :) Winetricks sounds like it has some good features, excepting I run latest wine-staging as main system version, which eg enables installing Gog's Witcher 3, along with needing dxvk too though. Yes, the Lutris scripting not working hopefully isn't prophetic in showing that POL 5...

A real shame about POL 5; the best feature of POL is the freedom, and I worry the POL 5 scripts are going to be very restrictive, as the POL 4 freedom meant that tweaking for people's different hardwares etc could be done too. But, yes, I can see how it would be great if uploading a script could...

Sounds great! :-)

Lol, yes; good to be contented :) ... and have fun testing Neptune! When I tried KDE mid-2017 I didn't 'click' with it at all/thought it was far too complex, but in just a year they've removed two thirds of what was there, and what remains runs very simply and well ... my system is actually...

No problem, and, yes, I was on Mint, but really 'clicked' with Neptune; very happily settled there. And I agree it's always best to make the positive choice; helps health more, too. :-)

I've made my own very basic linux notes during the 15 months since coming over, reading a bit here and there, but unfortunately I can't see me being able to manage to do guides; not great health, but am able to follow guides here, and hit extremely lucky with the Witcher 3 install, when I just...

Thanks, Daniel and Booman. :-) Am genuinely grateful, and very glad I can show that and also donate. After leaving MS to get away from the utter misery, stress and lack of being able to even use the machine for anything, I've gone through challenges to learn the basics and find the distro I'm...