ProtonDB | Game Details for Making*Lovers

Works out of box

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-11

Control Layout:Switch To Community Layout: Personal Smee Template

Battery Performance:

Limited to 30FPS

Input:Other

When windowed the mouse was misaligned to where the game thought it was. Full screen did not have this issue

Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-11

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Larnu(30 reports)

5 hours overall

Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-11

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

inFantry-32(68 reports)

inFantry-32 (68 reports)

Remember, Steam hates Visual Novels.. Until they want to sell Steam Decks in Japan.

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: Proton 8.0-3

Control Layout:Switch To Community Layout: Definitive Making Lovers Controller Layout | [Steam Deck]

Battery Performance:Made Changes To Improve

TDP: 4w / FPS Limit: 20 / Refresh Rate: 40hz | No Wifi + Bluetooth = 9-11hrs of battery.

The version of the game I have is DRM-free from Denpasoft, there's nothing really worth noting here.. Everything works OOTB, no need to tinker or use Proton-GE; Making Lovers is truly a just works experience and tha will be synonymous with the Steam version. Though I implore you to look into alt-platforms for VNs like: https://denpasoft.com/

Custom Proton: Proton 8.0-3

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

inFantry-32(68 reports)

Custom Proton: Proton 8.0-3

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

blweldon2(51 reports)

18 hours overall13 hours on Linux

blweldon2 (51 reports)

18 hours overall13 hours on Linux

Works perfectly

Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental

Control Layout:Switch To Keyboard And Mouse

Control Layout Customization:Other

Set A to left mouse button

Proton Experimental

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

blweldon2(51 reports)

18 hours overall13 hours on Linux

Proton Experimental

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Emyr(19 reports)

Emyr (19 reports)

If you like visual novels

Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental

Control Layout:Switch To Keyboard And Mouse

Control Layout Customization:Grip Buttons, Other

Just mapped various in-game hotkeys to buttons.

I used the Denpasoft version which does not require an install (it just gives you the game folder directly). I also installed the "toggle" addon which works great as well.

Proton Experimental

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Emyr(19 reports)

Proton Experimental

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Feng Lengshun(28 reports)

18 hours overall18 hours on Linux

Feng Lengshun (28 reports)

18 hours overall18 hours on Linux

Windowing:Other

Switching between fullscreen and windowed without a restart may cause issues

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

Significant Bugs:

Opening Steam Overlay may cause game to slow down or freeze

Proton 7.0-1

Distro:Garuda Linux

Kernel:5.17.1-249-tkg-cacule

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.1

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 570 (polaris10, LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.44, 5.17.1-249-tkg-cacule)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics

Feng Lengshun(28 reports)

18 hours overall18 hours on Linux

Proton 7.0-1

Distro:Garuda Linux

Kernel:5.17.1-249-tkg-cacule

RAM:32 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.1

GPU:AMD Radeon RX 570 (polaris10, LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.44, 5.17.1-249-tkg-cacule)

CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics

DaryKiri(61 reports)

DaryKiri (61 reports)

game works

Proton 6.3-8

DaryKiri(61 reports)

Proton 6.3-8

RedSpy(7 reports)

RedSpy (7 reports)

4 years ago

Customizations:Something Else

Using Proton 4.11-13

Proton 4.11-13

RedSpy(7 reports)

Proton 4.11-13

Velura(1 report)

Velura (1 report)

Instability:Occasionally

Sometimes starts printing weird issues. Can be fixed through a quick restart.

Proton 5.0-6

Velura(1 report)

Proton 5.0-6

Sensokaku(19 reports)

84 hours overall(> 10 hours with Proton)

Sensokaku (19 reports)

84 hours overall(> 10 hours with Proton)

Works great

Had to run with an older Proton version

Proton 5.0-5

Distro:Pop!_OS 19.10

Kernel:5.3.0-7642-generic

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 440.64

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

CPU:Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz

Sensokaku(19 reports)

84 hours overall(> 10 hours with Proton)

Proton 5.0-5

Distro:Pop!_OS 19.10

Kernel:5.3.0-7642-generic

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 440.64

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

CPU:Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz

Weeb(3 reports)

Weeb (3 reports)

Game runs smoothly