Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Bioshock Infinite
- Steam AppID of the game: 8870
System Information
- GPU: GTX 970
- Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.56
- Kernel version: 4.4.0-148-generic
- Link to full system information report as Gist:
- Proton version:4.2-4
I confirm:
- [ ] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
- [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.
Symptoms
The game doesn't work via forced PROTON.
Reproduction
*Go to the game tab.
and force the game to be played via PROTON.
*Download...
*And click play...
The game doesn't work...
I also observed some OSX content in the DLC tab...
What are the doing there?
CSahajdacny
All 6 comments
Looks like the Windows release of this game uses CEG (#753).
kisak-valve
on 17 May 2019
Are there any problems with playing this game nowadays using native version? I finished this game on Linux and remember it working great out of the box...
dreamer
on 17 May 2019
Are there any problems with playing this game nowadays using native version? I finished this game on Linux and remember it working great out of the box...
Yes, but the performance of the OpenGL Linux port is poor compared with the DX11 game on windows 7 with the same hardware.. the gap is huge.
The main problem of Linux ports is that once they are released, they get abandoned by porters....
This port must be updated to Vulkan by default, but keeping the Legacy version in the beta tab, like Croteam did with Talos Principle..
But if the problem here is CEG... I can't believe that a Valve creation is the biggest obstacle for to enjoy PROTON.
CSahajdacny
on 19 May 2019
I played the linux native port and it was fantastic!
ghost
on 8 Jun 2019
Yes, but the performance of the OpenGL Linux port is poor compared with the DX11 game on windows 7 with the same hardware.. the gap is huge.
Tbh I played Bioshock Infinite on Linux and Windows. Performance was similar. I did not notice any issues in the native version for Linux.
Also as you can see at Phoronix benchmarks Bioshock Infinite working even better on Linux than on Windows. Proof here (first chart): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-linux-pascal&num=5
The main problem of Linux ports is that once they are released, they get abandoned by porters....
It is not a porter company fault but the publisher abandons it. So you should blame publishers not porters.
This port must be updated to Vulkan by default, but keeping the Legacy version in the beta tab, like Croteam did with Talos Principle..
I do not agree with that. The topic has already been discussed many times. Vulkan is a very good technology, but to remember that it is not a wonderful solution that will solve all problems out of box.
To really exploit Vulkan's potential, we need a well-written game engine, preferably written from scratch under the low-level API.
Sometimes Vulkan did not give any benefits, and sometimes even a decrease in performance. As an example, I will give here Dungeons 3, where devs drop Vulkan and back to OGL because it gives better framerates on this game.
Additionally, Vulcan use in new port makes sense but I do not see a reason to do it for old ports, especially since it works well in OpenGL and sometimes even better than on Windows.
It is not economically viable for the publisher. Nobody will invest in this for the old port.
The more so since the game itself is not even maintained on Windows for a long time. So no make any sense.
But as you see in Crotem example, they still developing this game and thats why they pick up Vulkan.
Also by creating an port for old game from OpenGL to Vulkan, you will cut off many players with old hardware, which can still be played perfectly well, and which GPU does not support Vulkan.
In the case of new games this is not a problem. But if gamers bought the game a year ago and played it on their equipment and later it turns out that the game abandons OpenGL and becomes Vulkan only then it is unfair because they can't play on it anymore. Here is an example - Rust.
Even creating the legacy branch you write about is not fair. Because someone bought it, pay for it. Since the game is still being developed and gets new content and when developers force him to stay with legacy branch - so he received an incomplete product and was cheated in this way.
AngryPenguinPL
on 15 Jun 2019
Just fyi: just tried the steam installation with the gog exe (currently on sale, so was worth the try)
and the game works fine (played unti after the baptism).
It doesn't accept the language I set on steam though and falls back to english (no big deal).
Also copied "Galaxy.dll" and "common.dll" which are probably required by the exe.
frostworx
on 24 Aug 2020
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Tbh I played Bioshock Infinite on Linux and Windows. Performance was similar. I did not notice any issues in the native version for Linux.
Also as you can see at Phoronix benchmarks Bioshock Infinite working even better on Linux than on Windows. Proof here (first chart): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows-linux-pascal&num=5
It is not a porter company fault but the publisher abandons it. So you should blame publishers not porters.
I do not agree with that. The topic has already been discussed many times. Vulkan is a very good technology, but to remember that it is not a wonderful solution that will solve all problems out of box.
To really exploit Vulkan's potential, we need a well-written game engine, preferably written from scratch under the low-level API.
Sometimes Vulkan did not give any benefits, and sometimes even a decrease in performance. As an example, I will give here Dungeons 3, where devs drop Vulkan and back to OGL because it gives better framerates on this game.
Additionally, Vulcan use in new port makes sense but I do not see a reason to do it for old ports, especially since it works well in OpenGL and sometimes even better than on Windows.
It is not economically viable for the publisher. Nobody will invest in this for the old port.
The more so since the game itself is not even maintained on Windows for a long time. So no make any sense.
But as you see in Crotem example, they still developing this game and thats why they pick up Vulkan.
Also by creating an port for old game from OpenGL to Vulkan, you will cut off many players with old hardware, which can still be played perfectly well, and which GPU does not support Vulkan.
In the case of new games this is not a problem. But if gamers bought the game a year ago and played it on their equipment and later it turns out that the game abandons OpenGL and becomes Vulkan only then it is unfair because they can't play on it anymore. Here is an example - Rust.
Even creating the legacy branch you write about is not fair. Because someone bought it, pay for it. Since the game is still being developed and gets new content and when developers force him to stay with legacy branch - so he received an incomplete product and was cheated in this way.