Wandering Adventure Party

@atomicpoet @rbos Thanks for confirming my suspicions that the video card was the quintessential problem.

This is the sort of thing where it helps having a broader range of experience and hardware.

@rbos @atomicpoet I had a Quadro K620, which IIRC went for around $25 on eBay at the time (used). Looking it up now, I think they go for around $15 on eBay.

I do not know how they compare to what's expected for gaming.

I didn't have any problems installing the non-free driver.

@atomicpoet "I suspect that using Debian Stable means you'll have to make _lots_ of changes before it's ready for gaming."

I do not like the sound of that. Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions out there.

Unfortunately, AMD is not much of an option for me because I need 4K resolution capability, and the minimum cost of used 4K capable AMD graphics cards was just too high compared to Nvidia.

@atomicpoet I am using Debian Stable, and I'll bet the problem is that I'm using old graphics hardware that isn't adequately supported. I do not buy new expensive video cards. I buy used ones that are inexpensive.

I do not expect things to work better now.

Running Windows games on Linux does not matter to me. Not enough to run a different Linux distribution on one computer and dealing with maintaining that. And not enough for me to spend hundreds of dollars on a better supported video card.

@atomicpoet So for me, it's simple. If you wrote your game for Windows, I'm not even going to try.

That's my solution for now. Shrug

@atomicpoet game work, and maybe I could have figured out what to do to make it work eventually.

And it could have been worth the effort if I had multiple games I wanted to play.

But I only wanted to play one game, and it didn't work, and after a few weeks of fighting it I didn't feel like fighting it any more.

Web games seem fine, though, for the most part, and of course there's emulation of old computers (including web emulators). I don't have to fight the computer to run them.

@atomicpoet I think I've only ever tried to make one Windows game work on Linux (through Steam and Proton).

It was Gris. It wouldn't work. I could only get the initial game menu to work but nothing of the actual gameplay. I tried for a bit, but couldn't get it to work. My money would have been flushed down the drain if I didn't also have a Windows laptop around (but anyway, it was too inconvenient for me so I ended up not playing the game).

I have heard that it makes "almost" every Windows

@juergen_hubert When I read "trying to drive it away", I was thinking something like this.

@juergen_hubert I think this was common in Japan also.

@juergen_hubert It's even worse than you think. Half a century ago, places like New Orleans, Louisiana were known for durable awnings to shade windows, as well as of course shady trees.

But yeah we decided we couldn't have that any more.