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Recent save games were missing, could be because of my steam cloud being full, have to check that
5 FPS in main menu until shaders are compiled, just wait a few minutes
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json gamemoderun %command% --in-process-gpu
The launcher was a black screen with the "PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%" launch argument and I had to add "--in-process-gpu" to it for the launcher to be visible
AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json %command% fixed it
AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json %command%
is required to play the game without constant freezes with Proton both on XWayland and Native Wayland
It runs awfully. Cannot get it to play properly, even tho everyone else seems to make it work
Runs at 10 fps even with mods disabled
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
works out of box but smoother with proton ge
MANGOHUD=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json mangohud %command%
Heavy artifacts before tinkering, unplayable
Works fine on Ubuntu 25.04 with latest Proton
On the initial re-install, when I updated the display settings the game was occupying both monitors even though only one was specified. Closing and relaunching the game fixed this.
If you enable Paradox Mods, the game takes so long to load that it's mistakenly reported as having crashed. You can click "Wait" a couple of times until the game finally finishes loading.
Pardaox Mods, still a beta feature, will cause the game to have longer loading times and can appear as though it crashed. The region packs also have graphic bugs. Honestly, I wouldn't mess with mods unless you absolutely have to use them.
With the default proton version, I had crackling audio when opening any of the overlays. With the current beta version, it's gone.
Game crashes-to-desktop frequently when using bad code mods but not Linux related. Very stable without code mods.
Game runs fine as long as you stay away from badly written code mods. Some code mods seem okay. This isn't related to Linux as Win users experience the same BS.
Works fine on first launch, no command arguments needed.
It only promped me to install c++ visual redistribued when launching the game
Degraded performance on large cities
Significantly worse performance than on windows (15-30fps vs 45-50fps), with severe stuttering. ~450k pop.
Significant performace issues on big citites when compared to windows, but no other issues.
The peformence of this game is lesser than windows 10 with higher population cities. But way better than a launch
Code mods dissabled
Return after Alt-tab casues game to black out and require a game restart
Game works good. considering the CPU I'm running
Just works out of box. Runs amazingly well
Must admit I haven't played Cities Skylines II since release and that was on Windows. It ran, okay at best. Now 18 odd months later just installed it again since switching to Linux and it runs amazingly well. No issues, super smooth and great frame rate even with a fairly large city. I do not know how much is down to Linux or just that the game has been patched a bunch since I last played it; but it feels native.
In the first dozen or so hours I played, the game occasionally crashed. Afterwards there were no more crashes.
The game runs smoothly. Also no problems with mods & stuff.
MANGOHUD=1 MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=60,no_display %command%
You may experience the occasional crash, but it's not Linux related
Works perfectly, no tinkering required
Similar performance to Windows, still has "normal" game issues that can also happen on Windows like lag and the occasional game crash.
dotnet48 via winetricks (protontricks couldn't install dependency correctly)
Everything from the base game worked without issue, but multiple mods which were previously working fine in Windows were having significant trouble working with both native and MS .NET DLLs.
I haven't tried any of the usual WINE/Proton misbehavior fixes, such as moving to a case insensitive filesystem, or installing other things from wine/protontricks. Many of the issues I experience may be things the authors of the mods I use can fix. In the future I intend to return to running modded CS2 in Linux, as things will have likely improved by then.
VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV DXVK_HUD=devinfo,fps,memory,gpuload bash -c 'exec "${@/%"Launcher/dowser.exe"/Cities2.exe}"' -- %command%
Took 3 boots to initially load without crashing
Works but requires some research to remove artifacts
Some random crashes happend but I could play for hours already. One currupted a save. Still, playable. Just have to save regularly.
A crash during save deleted my city.
Other than the crashes it playes great, both in fullscreen and window mode.
I'm not sure why, but the UI transparency makes the game run at around 10 fps on any graphics settings. Removing UI transparency in the settings only removes transparency from the in-game status, so when I pause the game I still have this low fps problem since the options menu itselft has that transparency.
It's playable, but not ideal.
PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun mangohud %command%
framerate drops significantly if vram is full. I only have 8gb of vram so it happens quite frequently. alt-tabbing fixes the issue for a while but restarting the game is best to fix the issue.
Works the same and performs as well as when I was on Windows
Besides a few random closes that are rare, the game works flawlessly for me and have been playing for several months on Linux with mods and everything. Besides the games own performance issues, it works perfect on Linux here.
Works great
The game runs great with and witout mods
works out of the box with no real issues
very rare crashes, once every 6h or so.
playing the game with feral`s gamemode out of habit, not necessary.
The performance, while still pretty bad, is comparable to what you might get on Windows. The game seems to just be poorly optimized anyways.
gamemoderun PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1
The game freezes when running in fullscreen. You can start in windowed mode via the Paradox Launcher though.
I got 40 fps at 1080p high settings... on an empty map. It seems to be in line with what people with similar hardware experienced. I had DLSS off though.
did not try Skyve 2. Road Builder 2 works fine. did not try any other mods that make big changes.
gamemoderun mangohud PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command%
This game runs like shit
As I said, the performance is tanking
Generally good experience without mods, tinkering with mods. Some bugginess and crashing.
In fullscreen mode, CS2 does not use the GPU and need to change to Windowed Borderless.
Fairly frequent crashing. Also, game crashes when choosing "Exit to Main Menu" rather than returning to main menu.
