Which ones have you found incompatible?

I haven’t found one which won’t work for me. At the very least, if you run say Steam on your Linux desktop, you can download the offline backup on your games files and then:

• Install ProtonTricks
• Download GE-Proton (whatever the latest is!)
• Go to your offline backup folder with the game files, and add the executable file to Steam (right-click, add to Steam)
• From within Steam, go to properties and then compatibility, and choose your GE-Proton
• Run the installer (I recommend making it install to: /home /deck /Games
• Remove the setup from Steam
• Once the game is installed wherever you wanted it to go to (I recommend making a folder in your ‘home’ folder called ‘Games’), find the game’s executable file ‘ArtOfRally.exe’ for example, and do the same: right-click on it, add to Steam, then again in properties choose GE
• Play the game. 9/10 times you’ll find the dependencies covered by GE-Proton, in the rare case it isn’t, you can use something like Lutris to do this!

But…again I haven’t had any issues. If you can think of a game title you haven’t been able to run by using Heroic Games Launcher, then let me know, and if I have it I will troubleshoot it for you! More than happy to help :)

Hmmm, maybe you should try your resolution and texture settings, I’ve had not one issue playing games, no slowdowns for me.

But, never say never!

Let us know how you find it! I’d love to hear what you think, after such a long time between play-throughs!

Of the first? Yes! Its incredible. They did such a good job keeping the original game there with lovely new textures.

I haven’t the nostalgia of playing the original at release (or ever), but I really enjoyed System Shock Remake. You won’t regret it! It goes pretty cheap quite regularly on GOG, also

It’s perfect!

Performance is tied to framerate, or at least was a loooong time ago. I notice a lot of users on EmuDeck write about this. Like…a lot! Not your issue, but I read a lot who think the game is playing in super slo-mo, but this is all tied to the framerate. Keep it at 60 Hz or above, and all is fine.

PCSX2 has a huge range of tweaks you can make, but there’s also HD texture ‘packs’ you can download and apply, which re-do all the textures (yeah, I know you guessed that). Some of these can be huge like Silent Hill 2’s coming in at 29GB, and some can be teeny-tiny like MGS2’s which only re-textures the HUD and menu (because PCSX2 can upscale the native game’s resolution well enough on its own!)

Long reply, for me to say it performs perfectly for me!

I really enjoyed playing the first one on a flight, on my Steam Deck. So I’m hoping this next will play just as well!

That’s what this image is from! PCSX2 via the configurator. I use RetroDECK on my Steam Deck.

It runs perfectly! Absolutely perfect. I also use some HD texture packs, replacing the vanilla textures to make it look extra fancy :)

Announcing they’d have native Linux support with a launcher and then never mentioning it again, hoping that everyone would forget?

That feels pretty awful to me, a Linux user. Obviously negated since we have such lovely work as Heroic (the dev of which is a personal friend), but it is the odd strange misstep like this which strikes me as being pretty sad.

Then we have developers never updating their games on GOG. Admittedly not a GOG problem, per se, but they could pressure these developers so that this kind of issue wouldn’t persist. There are SO many games which do this, that the GOG forums have a dedicated thread for this very issue: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2/page316/?search=second+class At the moment, there are 4,729 replies on that thread.

GOG Galaxy 2.0 is nigh-on-abandoned now, with constant problems. There’s a slew of posts about it on all Reddit, their forum and on social media.

They have their issues. I adore them, but they have their issues.

Here you go!

https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Thank you!!!

I’d be pretty tempted by Tony Hawk’s, but the recent news that 3+4 will finally be getting remade makes me hesitate to play. Since the experience will probably be better there!

For the plethora of HD textures I’ve found. I know it seems ironic, because of native PC resolutions, but fans have taken texture replacements to a whole other level with these. I just tend to try them out and compare them to the PC version. This was one of the few I found made a significant difference, at least in my eyes.

I’m the exception to gaming, I have maybe 20-ish games on Steam, but '000’s on GOG. I’ve always had a thing for the underdog, maybe that’s what made me focus on them from the start. I just love their platform, and their ethos. They’ll never be a competitor to Steam or Epic Games, but I don’t think they’re trying to be any more.

I just love them!

I do so wish the GOGdb site acted in the same way as the Steam one did:

https://www.gogdb.org/

Instead, it runs in a different way making it far less helpful than, as you said, SteamDB!

You know I was never a car girl…for the most part. But the last 12 months or so I have become obsessed with rally racing: the games, and the history (Group B!). From there I ended up watching general car movies, like Le Mans (or is the title The 24 Hours of Le Mans? I never remember), and finally…yes, just finished watching the original two Fast and Furious movies just last week! I think I like the second one most, it is cringe, but in a fun nice way!

Thank you, this looks perfect!

HEY THAT’S AMAZING!!!

Must be sad to be so in love with a game which seems to be mostly forgotten, but I love her shrine :)

…from what I’ve read and seen in the past, that game can be rather risky on one’s thumbsticks due to all the efforts in making yourself look as amazing as possible.

(sounds worth it, tbh, thanks!)

And I’m a total wuss, too. But after becoming so enamored with the REmakes, I went searching for games to scare me!

Thank you, Timesplitters looks lovely! The art-design of it looks just perfect!