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Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR
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This is an absolute no-brainer on their part
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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Related: has anyone actually tried Alyx on Linux recently? I set up ALVR with my facebook quest the other month and every game except Alyx was fine. Half-assed googling makes it sound like that was a known issue but there are also probably like five people on the planet trying Alyx in Proton.
Why would you run it in Proton? It's a native game.
I tried last week but was getting some odd pausing issue. Using alvr and a quest 2 headset. Haven't figured out what setting is wrong to cause that.
I played it with ALVR on Linux with a meta quest 2 from start to finish like a year ago. ran like a champion (ok, it froze like every 3 hours, now that I think of it).
i just played yesterday, alyx is one of the few that run without issues.
oh except, controller plugged in usb prevents it from starting (same as vr home)
why run it in proton?
Completely stops it launching? Most recently I could get to the main menu but would crash on loading a save, previously I could get to early quarantine zone before crashing on a level transition when I gave up. But if it's that simple I'll have to try unplugging my flight sim gear.
Same. I played it with steam link on my Pico 4 and it runs great. And it's a phenomenal vr game.
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the gpu is weak, but with proper foveated rendering it is absolutely good enough I think
I just want to say, I find it so goddamn funny that we got Half-Life 3 before Star Citizen. Anyone remembers that?