Hexen 2 crashes for me immediately with Proton 7.0.1 or Experimental as of this writing. WTF is going on here? This is a dos era game, and this shouldn't be broken like this out of the box.
@lucifertdark that is probably because the game is only officially supported on Windows 2000/XP/Vista Wine, and hence, Proton, is more suitable for running older software than newer Windows versions. Using the custom eng...
@lucifertdark thanks for the info, maybe I will use that custom engine (there is one for Linux) to play the game. The point of SteamPlay and Proton as I understand it is to make Windows games available for all Linux / St...
The game will work but you need to download & install The Ultimate Patch for the Steam version of Hexen II. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=504304725 for full details on the patch.
Confirmed the same thing happens to me. The log file grows very very quickly. I got up to about 5GB in 30 seconds Same basic versions/system info as he posted except I have GTX 970 https://gist.github.com/arcooke/7801947...