# Linux gaming \[Guide\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Gaming, sound and video\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/linux-gaming-guide/7339 "2020-08-24T18:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/keybreak/32/9257_2.png) [@keybreak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/keybreak)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/linux-gaming-guide/7339/3 "2020-08-24T18:37:54Z")
# Disclaimer Demand for this guide was over the roof lately (both publicly and through PM, some of you even offered help - which i appreciate a lot!), so i have to release it earlier than planned. 🙃 This guide should be suitable for anyone from complete newcomer to advanced user (latter will just read TL;DR of given sections for current **Best practices** and **Resources** ). Also, this guide is useful for any distribution, not only EndeavourOS or Arch - so you can share it for anyone who use Linux! 👾 It is far from finished, but should be a very good start for PC gamers 🥳 ### Things to come • I know that set of simple scripts in **Wine** section is very far from ideal workflow, to be user-friendly for wide range of people, but still it’s much easier, than what you’ll find after reading Wine wiki for 12 months. Meanwhile i hope that those who don’t know **Wine** up close in personal will find great help in understanding it’s operation from guide and those scripts. ❗ Don’t use this scripts, if you have **PlayOnLinux** installed and used - as i use it’s folder-structure to get auto-hooked by **Lutris**! You can use many available tools like: **pywinery** , **PlayOnLinux** or **Lutris** itself to manage, but i won’t recommend it. Personally i respect them for good ideas, but find them very bloated, unnecessary huge, full of dependencies, not-vanilla ways of dealing Wine sometimes, and not-functional for some advanced stuff… I have already created a great script in bash capable of much more than just ease for gaming, but can’t release it right now until i’ll be 100% sure it’s perfect, after that i’ll release it FOSS on GitHub and AUR: > **FEATURES** > > - Pure bash > - Very user-friendly > - Interface GUI / CLI / mixed > - Don’t auto-mess mime-types and .desktop files of original system (like Wine and Winetricks do), create PREFIX portable by default > - No dependencies except **winetricks** and optional **Zenity** for GUI > - Advanced management of ENGINE and PREFIXES, mass actions for: > - Update selected PREFIXES for specific ENGINE version > - Remove selected ENGINES (will warn if they’re in use by some PREFIXES) > > - Download and auto-install ENGINES: > - For now only **PlayOnLinux** ( **wine** / **wine-staging** ) > - Looking forward for adding **Proton** , **Tk-Glitch** , **GloriousEggroll** > - Will try to add custom sources in config, for pre-built Engines > > - Very easy to create prefix > - Execute .msi or .exe Windows files from file-manager’s double-click - it will ask on which of available PREFIXES you want to run it! 🕶 > - Optional config for places where you store your prefixes, you can have multiple places which will be symlinked (for example Games on separate drive)! > - Easy scripting from: > - Bash > - Probably will parse Lutris scripts for the future too > > - Config for chosen prefix: > - Change Engine > - All the usual options like winecfg, regedit, reboot etc > - Kill all processes > - Make prefix portable > > - Kill all processes for all PREFIXES > - Make all PREFIXES portable > > * * * • Bridging old games (DirectX 1-8, Glide, DirectDraw) to work with **Wine** / **Proton** and **DXVK** 👾 • Advises on Game configs and Mods • Emulators * * * ### What i’ll need help with Contrary to popular beliefs - i’m not terminator or even Wine-guru 🤖 😅 Please alert me on: • Typos, errors, dead links • Best practices updates What i very much need help with: • **[Downsampling](https://www.neogaf.com/threads/downsampling-a-simple-method-for-making-your-pc-games-look-better.509076/)** (i need universal ways of achieving something like Nvidia DSR for any game, regardless of drivers etc) - this is super-important for me personally and games quality! • **nvapi** - if someone will come up with ways to hook this latest PhysX development or help **Wine** and **DXVK** - please do! • **AMD** / **Intel** / **Hybrid / Optimus graphics** gaming. Anything on best practices for as i don’t have experience on Linux and hardware for it. * * * Now ENJOY! And please excuse me, as i was and still am super-busy on a work, but will be here and will try to help however i can, but for now i need some rest 😂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/linux-gaming-guide/7339)._