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I really hope I can play all my games on linux one day. Right now I only play Age of empires 2 definitive edition, anybody knows if i can play it ranked on linux?

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Age of Empires 2 is rated Platinum on ProtonDB [0]. This should mean it will work flawlessly without any tweaking.

[0] https://protondb.com/app/221380

I've played some online ranked in Linux with DE. On some of the older patches I had random crashes upon reaching castle age so I'm currently sticking to windows though.

I have all versions of AoE in my steam library, currently none of those are playable on Linux. Not surprising since the games are developed by Microsoft.

You could try Wine, I haven't tried that.

From ProtonDB:

Age of Empires 2 (2013) - Platinum

Age of Empires 3 - Gold

Age of Empires 2 - Gold

Age of Empires - Gold

https://protondb.com/search?q=age%20of%20empires

So not definitive edition ? :(

Apparently the 'Age of Empires 2' from that listing is the definitive edition. It's rated Gold so should work in most cases.

https://www.protondb.com/app/813780

I've played 4v4 ranked on DE with friends without any (WINE-specific) crashes. This was about 6 months ago, so it's likely things are even more stable now.

Haha, here I was thinking that I had 'all versions'.

I have in my library:

AoE

AoE 2

AoE 2 HD

AoE 2 Definitive Edition

None of them show up in my Linux steam library.

Ah, you'll need to enable proton for all games in settings

Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play and tick "Enable Steam Play for all titles"

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