packages VS luxtorpeda

Switch to using Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper for the built engines. This provides newer tooling for builds, which should make future development easier, for example being able to build qt 5.15 and have gcc 10 available. The 100+ engines have been re-built. Note that previous clients should still work on the older soldier, but any new updates will only happen to sniper (this client and above). If you run into any issues with the engines, please open a new issue in the packages repo.

What happened here is the Luxtorpeda is now allowing normal ScummVM to launch this game (this commit). I think before you needed the separate Roberta layer to do this.

Luxtorpeda OpenMW is currently broken, there’s a performance bug. https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/840

1) Then download and extract this to somewhere else.

I'm the maintainer of luxtorpeda-dev. It currently does not support cloud saves, but it's something that I'm working on (you can see progress as I make it here: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/645)

Daggerfall Unity will likely be in Luxtorpeda soon, there'a a PR for it: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/pull/651

There is also OpenGothic. Which can be used standalone or through Luxtorpeda.

Detect zip automatically instead of metadata prompt, update to v2 json by @d10sfan in https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda/pull/210

Bit late but luxtorpeda has gzdoom as an option along with qzdl for launching with mods. You just gotta install protonup-qt from the discover store in desktop mode. A quick YouTube/Google search can show you how but that's the rough gist of it.

I use ProtonUp-Qt to get different Proton versions. You can find it there. You could also manually install Lux. Then just select it from the Compatibility tools.

try using Luxtorpeda to install ECWolf to play it instead

Released a new luxtorpeda-dev client (https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda/releases/tag/v63)

There's a project called Luxtorpeda which acts as a compatibility layer in Steam but instead of running the game through Proton, it will download and run it with native engines and source ports. So if you enable it with classic Doom it will pop up with a dialog asking which port to play with (GZDoom, doomsday etc) and it will count towards your Steam play time, enable the Steam overlay etc. Keeps the engine up to date and works with lots of other games with open source ports too.