Not surprised that it eventually broke. Was facing regular crashes in multiplayer and tile rendering problems for a long time on the native client before I ended up switching to using Proton. Been fine since.
Similar to you, I haven't had problems with the 2K launcher in terms of actually launching it, but it does sometimes eat all my RAM (QtWebEngine memory leaks sometimes), so appreciate the launch argument so I can skip it and not have to deal with that pointless launcher.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Similar to you, I haven't had problems with the 2K launcher in terms of actually launching it, but it does sometimes eat all my RAM (QtWebEngine memory leaks sometimes), so appreciate the launch argument so I can skip it and not have to deal with that pointless launcher.
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in reply to Douglas Kilpatrick • • •A simple guide to Steam Play, Valve's technology for playing Windows games on Linux
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I have proton. I have lots of games that work through it...but Civ is the Linux port and I couldn't figure out how to get the windows version instead.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I've actually had a much better experience on my system with all the games in my library using the flatpak version...