Official proton support

Not to mention that it could(potentially) make mac support easier since mac is just a private variant of linux :3

No it's not, Marcos is based on bsd

BSD is the half brother of Linux. It may not be the same, but for the most part all the APIs match (although Apple has some exciting and different graphics extensions, and an unfamiliar X alternative). Remember in the same vein you could say Wine and Proton are half siblings of windows, in that they just provide the API part too.

As you're totally within your right to do! Here's hoping that we can see you again soon! :3

Please fix it, ASAP, I really want this game.

I play SE2 with no (apparent) issues with Proton and Fedora 41 out of the box.

I use Kubuntu 22.04.4LTS. If you have SE2 working, let me know which version and your spec & X engine is please

xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-24.1.5-1.fc41.x86_64(KDE+wayland) with Radeon RX 6950 XT. Proton version is 9.0-4. I have not tried the GE versions.

OK great thanks, not sure the fc vs ubuntu difference, but I tried wayland and had a few problems, so changed back to xorg based. I have nvidia based GPU too. If anyone else has had success with xorg and nvidia, I'll give SE2 another try (I only had success with proton 7, on SE1)

@Stinky Waffles which kernel are you running?

Also what frequency do we think is reasonable to buy SE2 again, just to see if it works yet, only to request a refund again, if it still doesn't work? Once a month?

@Simon Bazley 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64.

I bought SE1 right after planets came out. The game was totally broken for a few years and I just sat on(kept it, no refund) it trying every month or so until it worked. I personally don't see SE2 being broken in proton for too long though, especially as the game gains traction.

OK great, that's what I hoped you'd say. 6.x kernels are on Ubuntu 24 which I don't have yet, I'm still on 5.x as I use 22. I'll try again, when I figure out how to get 24 to see my LSI raid controller :-)

Thank you, that's what I was alluding to without opening up an unnecessary rant as to make this feedback short and concise on why we need official proton support :)

I would love to spend money on the future dlcs too, only if I can actually play them!!

You know Proton is for running Windows games under Linux?

I'm sure they know that Balmung, I think they're saying they'll give up on space engineers if it cant be ran under proton because of their (understandable)attitude against windows. I'm inclined to agree with them

Yeah, you may be right. Especially Linux users should know what Proton is for. And I can fully understand it.

I know proton is running a Windows program, I never said it didn't. I said I'm not running Windows the OS

I love space engineers but installing another OS just to play a game that can't do the bare minimum with proton/wine is not in the cards for me, at least not anymore

But then that leaves us more likely in a state of waiting months at a time for the updates to catch up if at all since its more tedious to keep native builds of the game rather than proton. Which, hasnt flown over my head WOULD be a better option for linux users, but ultimately more timely for the devs. I'd rather them not have the hassle while providing us the same updates when they release than holding out hope that they update the binaries when they get the chance

That's not how DotNet works, DotNet (as used to build this game) uses an intermediate representation of the app code and it's then JIT'ed when executed so the main setback to have an additional platform is not managing or updating the actual app code, but rather implementing the first iteration of native dependencies which are not expected to be updated over long periods of time.

Also, DotNet 8 probably doesn't run or can't run in Proton and since DotNet is already native in most of the platforms that Proton runs there would not be much incentive (by other developers) to add DotNet compatibility to Proton which in itself would not be an easy task

My brain is too smooth to understand this information so i opt for SPEAKING LOUDER TO SEEM MORE CORRECT! heh, nah, it does go over my head but i just genuinely want this game to be able to run with most distros with very little changes needed to be made to the system that'll probably be a patch work of getting certain drivers that are borderline abandoned again. I just want me game and me distro maaayn 🥺

i just genuinely want this game to be able to run with most distros

Also a previous comment (by Stinky Waffles), that I didn't read until now, states that the game is already working in at least one version of proton in at least one version of Fedora

Which distro are you running?

Sorry for the late reply. I was running Kubuntu 22.04 , with Nvidia 535 drivers, on X11.

I recently upgraded to Kubuntu 24.04 and Nvidia 550 drivers, still on X11.

After those upgrades SE was stuck on the splash screen, but changing Proton version from Proton-GE8-32 to Proton-GE9-25 (latest current GE version) fixed it. Valves latest stable Proton 9.0-4 did not work.

By the way, SE2 is running virtually flawlessly on Proton Experimental, Kubuntu 24.04.2 , Nvidia 550 drivers.

Graphics are set to max, framerate is smooth and the game looks georgeous! (It does stutter on major collissions, like red ship vs blue ship at max speed, but recovers quickly.)

On first launch, the game gave error about "graphics card does not have enough RAM", because it detected the laptop's integrated AMD graphics instead of the dedicated Nvidia card. Fixed by adding steam launch option:

DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060" %command% 

Then once the game launched there was a popup warning about not meeting minimum required speccs, but performance have been stellar.

Unfortunately raytracing is not working (grayed out), which seems to be a common issue on Proton for SE2 , https://www.protondb.com/app/1133870

SE2 runs great on proton-ge on arch, it will depend on your system though, i had to do a complete reinstall before the game would even launch so mileage will vary.

People do use the Steam Deck for gaming

you come into my post and take a dookie on my rug? get outta here

More people than you think. It's only going to grow, especially with how windows is going.

Ubuntu etc "just works" and you can play basically every game on it now with minimal fuss, except for those that deliberately block Linux because of "reasons" such as Warframe, Tarkov and Destiny (all of which actually work, they just ban you because you use Linux).

The work put in by Proton, Wine and Steam have made linux gaming very feasible nowadays. I play SE on Linux already, and it has more fps and stability than windows on the same system.

The writing is on the wall for Windows, although the percentage may be small, the percentage of devs and creatives on Linux as a preferred platform is quite high IMO.

Linux makes up 1.5% Win10 53% Win11 44% Mac <1% on Steam.

Win11 has anti-gamer bloat.

If you wish to own what you create Linux appears to be the better option.

Lets see what happens after October.

I litterally only had a windows machine for years, because I NEEDED it to play games. I've not booted up into that OS for years now, because of proton, and hope not to have to (although I think Windows 10 is going to die soon anyway, so I won't be able to). I wonder how many people use windows because they have to, not because they want to. Choice is good, except for the last few years you've had to be a masochist to try to play games on linux. Moving forward, I'd hope that to be less of the case. I'd suspect is more like 0.01 than 0.0001, if it isn't 0.1 already. But if you want to get all statistical, would you advocate Keen focusing entirely on XBox support, which is probably more commercially sensible for them. I'd hope not.

Honestly I've been gaming exclusively on linux for over 10 years now. Good bit of that time with space engineers. I guess I never had a problem.

Yes, proton support would be preferred....but it isn't like they went out of their way to break it at any time. It just plain works.