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Running better than windows 11 version, smooth like butter. For my hardware, 140 fps on windows 11 but over 165 fps on Linux. Well done!
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Crashes when trying to enter PSO2. NGS works fine
Decend fps, no graphical glitches, crashes on base pso. Seems to be a recent regression
NGS works fine
Opted to test with the latest version of GE-Proton at the time (9-26) after reading reports on here of the game not running or running poorly on other versions of Proton. Both original PSO2 and New Genesis run perfectly fine using this version, for right now.
After reading other Protondb reviews, i saw that using ProtonGE improves the performance, that is indeed true, i started playing with Proton Umu, but it has worse performance than Ge, so i suggest using Proton Ge. It also fixes other problems like the Splash screen not showing. So far the experience is really good.
Both games work like a charm.
Pso2 and PSO2 NGS, work very well out of the box. After clicking start game it shows a black window to me, probably a splash that shows that the game is loading, but after that it loads , and plays without problems, im using an account i have on console with 200 hours of gameplay, and it log ins correctly and playing online works as it should on both games.
Running the game with the default Proton setup leads to overall slowdown in New Genesis while remaning smooth for the old version aka PSO2. Hopefully the team brings the fix from GE-Proton which runs the game flawlessly.
Only needed to install Proton-GE and it works flawlessly with a rare stutter
Game runs well after using GE-8-32. Using Experimental of GE-9 results in massive performance degredation and stutering.
Game opens to black screen and then hangs.
gamemoderun mangohud %command%
Have tried multiple versions of Proton (proton-cachyos, GE-Proton9-15, and GE-Proton8-32) as well as numerous file verifications and a full reinstall, to no avail. Game refuses to launch.
Runs natively with GE-Proton8-32 on an HDD. The performance is just as good as when I played on my SSD.
In my last report, I mentioned that, on Windows 10, this game ran pretty smooth with minimal lag on my HDD. (I was using an old Dell Optiplex 9020 with the same GPU as now. Later, I upgraded everything besides the GPU, & the game ran even better on my new SSD. At that point, I didn't test the performance on my HDD.)
Now, I'm running the game on my second HDD with GE-Proton8-32, & it runs just as good as on my SSD.
Try using GE-Proton8-32. In my experience, the game wouldn't run with Proton Experimental, & it even ran poorly with GE-Proton9-13 & GE-Proton9-11.
With the version of GE-Proton I used, this game will mimic a not-so interactive slideshow.
When the game freezes on the load screen, my mouse cursor also freezes or becomes invisible. When it's invisible, it may let me click or not. Either way, my cursor eventually starts behaving normally.
When I played this game on my HDD & on Windows 10, it'd lag a tiny bit when loading into a ship & when traversing the world, but it'd still run pretty smooth.
However, when running this game with GE-Proton9-13, loading into a ship takes around one minute, & the game often freezes on the load screen. After I load in, the game stutters heavily when I try to move; though, it still stuttered somewhat while I stayed stationary. Surprisingly, loading into another region (like Retem) didn't take long.
If the slow, freezing, steal-your-mouse load screen isn't frustrating enough, the game stutters far too much for you to process what's happening.
Try a different version of GE-Proton.
At initialization past the launcher, the game will sometimes freeze just before the opening sequence plays. Choosing another Proton fixes it, so it might be a Vulkan shaders related issue.
When I initially switched from Windows to Linux and first ran under Proton-GE, I noticed load times were much shorter. Without Proton-GE, load times are extremely long and the game stutters everywhere.
With the fixes in Proton-GE, the game runs fast and smooth. All graphical features work normally and as expected. VSync only worked as expected if set to "Compulsory" (FreeSync monitor involved), I suspect "On" is actually "Adaptive".
Zero issues with 21:9 ultrawide support, just make sure to go into the launcher settings to adjust the Text Size (they measure it by expected resolution, so 2560x1440 is appropriate for 3440x1440). No stretching of the UI, it appears they just adjust the DPI based on the selection.
prime-run mangohud %command%
Lag because of EU version, same as Windows users, but it's not bothering at all
This report is classified as tinker because of the launch options, that I use to make the game run on my Nvidia GPU (Optimus Laptop)
Great game otherwise, no issues at all
Proton GE is absolutely required, but otherwise, all other configuration was set to defaults.
Proton GE is absolutely required, but otherwise, all other things left by default. FPS lock to 60, lower TDP, and lower graphical settings to suit your needs and battery life expectations.
bash -c 'cd pso2_bin && exec "${@/pso2launcher.exe/pso2.exe}"' -- %command% -reboot -steam -optimize
Launch options is for disabling PSO launcher
Using ProtonGE it's excellent, but using Proton Experimental is very laggy and not playable
I'd recommend a 30 FPS cap in NGS for playing on battery; while it can reach 60, you'd only have about 2 hours tops of playtime.
NGS is functionally unplayable without Proton-GE, which resolves a filesystem issue that causes constant freezes when moving on the map. This can also apparently be resolved by installing the game to a drive formatted to be case insensitive. Further reading here, though note that the GameGuard issues mentioned throughout the first few years of the comments have long since been resolved.
"PSO2 Classic" is comparatively playable without it, though loadtimes will still be significantly slowed to a crawl and you may even timeout from the game servers during loading.
Having a lot of characters onscreen, ie in cities or major raids, will give some microstutter as assets for their characters load in. Don't expect them to load quickly.
All hurdles aside, the game runs flawlessly and works as expected once you've got Proton-GE sorting things out: NGS can achieve a mostly stable 60 FPS with some graphical compromises and FSR if you don't mind giving up the battery life. "Mostly stable", don't expect that to be smooth in the most cluttered city areas.
Classic can easily hold 60 FPS without too much power draw and can even be bumped up to 90 FPS on the OLED display if you're feeling fancy.
Nothing major, expected for the Deck
A bit laggy on deck, but nothing major. Playable. Works as a handheld way to play PSO2
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Same Win/Linux lag for EU player on Global server, smooth playable
En dehors de GE et gamemod je n'utilise pas d'autre paramétrage supplémentaire et le résultat est plus que satisfaisant. Le jeu tourne en ultra avec cellshading sans Tearing ou Stuttering à 144 fps sur un écran 1080P.
GE-Proton8-24 works fine with Wellbia. Crashes all the time with GE-Proton8-25 when you load into the game after you picked your Character.
With Wellbia the process load for the game is much lower than with Gameguard.
I tried a few things in the launcher, and then in the game menus to lower draw distance, or lower resolution. Nothing seemed to help.
Hang-ups every few seconds as well as crashes. Some of the crashes might be related to Steam Overlay.
Quite a lot of crashes with loading screens. Or menus not loading correctly.
Game runs perfectly on an all AMD system
As long as you set the NGS launcher setting to compatible mode when on Steam Deck the game runs stable.
Text is small at times even when in-game setting is set to large scale
The new anticheat crashes the game shortly after login only on Steam Deck, setting the game to compatible mode in the NGS launcher fixes for now.
It sometimes crashes during cutscenes or in the character editor.
Grip Buttons for swapping between palettes, Right Trackpad for mouse and left mouse click, Left Trackpad swipes to switch between chats and moving camera further/closer to character and click to start chatting.
Limited framerate to 30 FPS
Some text can be difficult to read even after setting text size to large
Without tinkering the game starts up just fine but will freeze for several minutes uppon going online, only to be disconnected from the server once it finishes loading. Switching to GE-Proton resolves this issue. I did enable seccurity compatibility mode in the launcher to use the nProtect anticheat. Performance is compareable to last gen consoles, if not a bit better.
Add limits to TDP and GPU clock.
It seems that as of Steam OS 3.5 the anti cheat ks back in full force. Closing the game not long after loading into the game world.
Game can see additional lag when enough users are being loaded in at once.
While the game runs great with minor power and graphical tuning (solid 30-45 fps while still looking good).
Unfortunately, due to recent OS updates, issues seem to have emerged once again with the games anti cheat.
That, or crashes occur without the usual crash handler appearing. Which would be unusual for this game.
It should be noted that the game doesn't even get past the character select screen on base proton.
New Wellbia anti-cheat works without issue
Works perfectly with Proton GE. I've never played it in Windows but I can't imagine it being better than 144FPS at max settings 1080p on my setup. New Wellbia anti-cheat works even with out-of-the-box Proton, but the performance seems to be poor without using a GE build.
ProtonGE8-14 fixed an issue from 8-13 where thesystem cursor displayed on top of the in game cursor, game now plays perfectly.
bash -c 'cd pso2_bin && exec "${@/pso2launcher.exe/pso2.exe}"' -- %command% -reboot -steam -optimize
Launch options are to disable the launcher, unneccesary to play. Game runs smoother than on Windows.
As a free game to play while being not sweaty about it, its pretty good. I can finally delete my Windows.
switcherooctl launch -g 1 %command%
Need to manually kill steam overlay on systemprocess
It works like a normal MMO
Before installing, I made some pre-installation steps like in this guide (https://gist.github.com/intrnl/27d710196d2bc9fe3ca19f6a9349899b) where I created another ext4 partition (because I am using btrfs as main filesys) then flag the steam library there as +F. Also I would suggest maybe try to have some automation/command to kill/stop the gameoverlay when launching the game or else pso2 will get stuck at black screen.
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis runs perfectly once Proton GE is used. An almost identical experience to running on Xbox One or PS4.
Using the Steam recommended Proton, I found that the game suffered from long load times and stuttered when exploring and fighting in New Genesis. Timers are attatched to the online experience so they were running while I was loading.
Base PSO2 wasn't tested but I would assume that they would run the same.
Works fine out of the box on ubuntu. DIdn't have to force a compatibility tool to use it.
It maybe due to shaders being optimized. I'm also running maxed settings and as for PSO2 i wouldn't expect great performance for maxed on a MMO like this
Works out of the box
I did notice if i try to run it with a proton verison like GE for example it would crash before it starts. I also notices when the game asks you to download more data for NG if you hit yes wine crashes with a wine c++ runtime library error, I haven't found a way to avoid this as no other proton versions will start the game for me. Also select no instead of yes to avoid the crash. I would recommended it for anyone wanting to play it. Just mess around with graphic settings to get stable. Mine drops frames when loading things so
Random sound effects, mostly on attacks or character grunts when doing actions are gone.
I wasn't able to get this to run on anything except GE-Proton8-4. Maybe its one of those anti-cheat issues where you need to effectively nuke/reinstall the comptatdata folder for the game every time you swap it.
Originally the controller didn't work, but seemingly it works now. But i wanted to update this primarily to mention the sound issues. Very minor and otherwise everything else works fine, but its enough to mention at least.
Steam overlay crashes the game; so better just disable that.
I had a weird problem where it stopped building vulkan shaders at about 49% on the first launch. I gave up hit skip and tried to play anyways. Game didn't make it very far. Stopped the game, tried again, it build the shaders fine that time, and it ran without much issue.
Able to run it on ULTRA with the cel shading stuff on, and the game overall seems to be solid. Just be careful if you accept its download for old PSO2 data it'll launch the steam overlay which kills the game. You can download this data via the DLC section (free) via the store page, and just disable the overlay so that can't happen again.
Runs very smooth at different graphics settings depending on your preferences! Default + 40 FPS = 2-2.5 hours of play
Added a Left Trigger action layer so the back grips could be 1-8 hotkeys.
Different graphics settings for different experiences. Default is graphics setting 3 which runs smoothly at 40 FPS for about 2-2.5 hours of play. I was able to run at Graphics Setting 5 with the IN-GAME Frame Limiter set to 30 FPS for about 1.5-2 hours! (Make sure to verify FSR 1.0 is set. In both situations, I set it to "Auto" rather than picking one setting specifically.
More battery life or higher frame rates will require lower graphics settings, as other reports have stated. But I'm incredibly pleased with how well the game plays almost out of the box.
Good game which needs optimization for online performance
The game performance seems unoptimized to properly use the driver on medium settings running on Radeon RX 6950XT. The loading screen took longer even on NVME when running on Linux. Running on Windows lacks such problem.
Slowdown issue related to the game on medium settings
