Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton

Second Face Software program have introduced that their extremely well-liked Portal: Revolution mod for Portal 2 has dropped the Native Linux construct.

They’ve had a Native Linux construct for a very long time, but it surely turned fairly problematic and so they weren’t capable of resolve the problems gamers stored encountering. So as an alternative, they will guarantee it really works with Proton the place the problems did not occur.

As they talked about of their announcement on Steam:

Portal: Revolution, from the beginning, has included a local Linux construct. As some gamers have lately reported, it was damaged due to latest Steam updates. To repair this we’ve got determined to take away the native Linux binaries in favour of Proton. Do not panic.

Our native Linux construct sucked. You might have skilled frequent hangs and stutters associated to gel rendering or different unusual bugs. This stems from a bug in our multithreaded rendering code for gel blobs, and regardless of our greatest efforts we weren’t capable of repair it. To make issues worse, it solely occurs on the native Linux construct. Home windows and Proton are usually not affected.

Due to these two causes we’ll ditch the native construct and run the sport by way of Proton. Efficiency ought to be comparable, if not even higher at instances and stability is unquestionably improved.

Valve rated it Steam Deck Verified with the Native Linux model, so this implies it would must be reviewed once more with Proton by Valve, in any other case it would trigger issues on Steam Deck. For now, you could have to manually decide into utilizing Proton for it within the properties -> Compatibility menu for the sport on Steam to run correctly.

In associated information, earlier this 12 months additionally they introduced Portal: Revolution 2 is in improvement, so there’s extra enjoyable to return for Portal followers.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.