Luxtorpeda is a tool that will play certain Steam games through native Linux source ports instead of their original releases (e.g. Arx Fatalis will run through the Arx Libertatis engine). The full...
Luxtorpeda is a tool that will play certain Steam games through native Linux source ports instead of their original releases (e.g. Arx Fatalis will run through the Arx Libertatis engine).
The really nice thing about Luxtorpeda is the lack of manual setup you have to do. I was able to get Re-Volt running through RVGL and the original Tomb Raider running through OpenLara on my Steam Deck with pretty much zero effort.
All you have to do is use ProtonUp-Qt to install Luxtorpeda, then install the game you want to play via Steam. Once installed, change the compatibility tool for the game to Luxtorpeda, and launch. It will automatically identify the game you’re playing, download and unpack and set up the engine, and then boot you into it.
It isn’t fully meant for the Steam Deck and works on regular computers, but it really shines on the Deck because it saves a lot of fiddling around in desktop mode if you were to try and get these up and running manually.
My go to check for these types of tools is how they handle DOOM (1993). There's quite a few source ports out there and folks are fairly opinionated about them. So it's a good litmus test for the...
My go to check for these types of tools is how they handle DOOM (1993). There's quite a few source ports out there and folks are fairly opinionated about them. So it's a good litmus test for the maintainer's bias about ports for games I'm less familiar with.
IIRC Chocolate Doom, Crispy Doom, GZDoom, and Woof! are some of the more popular ones. Chocolate Doom is the most conservative in terms of faithfulness whereas the others are more suitable for modding and/or have updated backends. So it's nice to see that the default is the most original, but that it also supports a total of 17 ports.
Luxtorpeda is a tool that will play certain Steam games through native Linux source ports instead of their original releases (e.g. Arx Fatalis will run through the Arx Libertatis engine).
The full list of supported games is here.
The really nice thing about Luxtorpeda is the lack of manual setup you have to do. I was able to get Re-Volt running through RVGL and the original Tomb Raider running through OpenLara on my Steam Deck with pretty much zero effort.
All you have to do is use ProtonUp-Qt to install Luxtorpeda, then install the game you want to play via Steam. Once installed, change the compatibility tool for the game to Luxtorpeda, and launch. It will automatically identify the game you’re playing, download and unpack and set up the engine, and then boot you into it.
It isn’t fully meant for the Steam Deck and works on regular computers, but it really shines on the Deck because it saves a lot of fiddling around in desktop mode if you were to try and get these up and running manually.
My go to check for these types of tools is how they handle DOOM (1993). There's quite a few source ports out there and folks are fairly opinionated about them. So it's a good litmus test for the maintainer's bias about ports for games I'm less familiar with.
IIRC Chocolate Doom, Crispy Doom, GZDoom, and Woof! are some of the more popular ones. Chocolate Doom is the most conservative in terms of faithfulness whereas the others are more suitable for modding and/or have updated backends. So it's nice to see that the default is the most original, but that it also supports a total of 17 ports.