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Plenty of older games only seem to work with certain versions of Proton/Wine, DXVK etc. There are projects like Bottles which let you manage multiple Proton distributions https://usebottles.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago
If it need installation (or has some kind of wizard), probably look into UseBottles and once installed, link the .exe to Steam. Source: 6 months ago
Bottles is very convenient to manage wine https://usebottles.com/. Source: 6 months ago
For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 6 months ago
Bottles is great for old classic non-steam games. I haven't tried 🏴☠️ with it but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Source: 6 months ago
Probably wouldn't fly for a work laptop, but I've been setting up Windows VMs recently using the "AtlasOS" thing and it seems to strip out all of the MS crap properly: https://atlasos.net Not a long term user of those VMs though, so I have no clue how they behaviour over a period of months (etc). - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago
Https://atlasos.net/ - does all that for you. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
> I usually have to spend an hour just removing stuff, disabling things and multiple reboots just to trim things down. All of that is automated now. https://atlasos.net. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
Probably worth to take a look https://atlasos.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
As a last hope you could backup your windows install and try installing Atlas OS on top, haven't tried it yet on Win11 but it should clear some process and ram for the game to run : https://atlasos.net/ MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR WINDOWS DISK FIRST. I'd recommand a software that you can launch on a USB stick instead of a program ran from Windows. I used https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/ but many others offer... Source: 6 months ago
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Wine - Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.
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Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
AME Wizard - AME Wizard is an opensource tool for modifying Windows.