Azarilh
Published
It should run fine on most gaming PCs, i would expect some slowness on lower end PCs tho, and using FSR with a 1080p monitor is not ideal.
gamescope -h 1440 -H 2160 --force-grab-cursor -- %command%
The mouse would not be locked so it would reach the edge and the camera would stop moving. To solve this issue, use gamescope --force-grab-cursor -- %command% as launch options ( add FSR like i did if you want ). The controller was not detected at all, but i didn't tinker with it, maybe toggling Steam input would work. I don't think this game really needs a controller, it's a short experience anyway.
It's prolly due to it being an indie game with advanced graphics. Wasn't too bad tho. Using FSR from 1440p to 2160p solved the problem.
Fix is easy.
Overrall it was good. Remember to diable the water reflections and pay attention to the dubbed notes, if they get partially skipped.
If you have enabled water reflections, the game will always crash at a water level. Disable that option and it won't crash.
Seems like some dubbed lines are randomly(?) skipped rarely. I've noticed it twice with the dubbed notes, which luckily you can read by yourself right after. I'm not sure if it happen with flashbacks, that would be more problematic, but it's hard to tell without the whole text.
Performance is perfect on my low end PC.
Controller input icons are wrong.
The game saves, but not in the directory it should. In fact, i have no idea where the save is. I know where it should be, i found all save files of other Proton games, but Blasphemous? Nope. have no idea why.
I lose control over the game when i increase my max health (can't interract with the game at all, i need to force quit). It wasn't a problem at the beginning, but at some point it started doin' that everytime (no updates were involved). At this state is impossible to complete the game at 100%.
Crashes when i try to save from the map editor.
The game broke. I've played this game native on Linux for 200 hours, but now it crashes after about a minute in my city. Or it crashes when i try to load, or every time i try to save a map from the editor. I tried Proton 7.0 but it changed nothing.
Hopefully they'll fix it soon. As it is now, it's unplayable. :/
Need slighly better PC than what is recommended
It's not as smooth as it should be, but playable.
Online leaderboards don't load.
Maybe with a powerful PC, definetly not with a mid tier like mine. I have to play it on windows, unfortunately.
I get the same FPS as on windows (about 45 fps at 1080p) but i get frame skips (I think??) that make the game unplayable. Also if i set 900p the framerate stays the same for some reason, altough i get 60FPS on windows. I tried to disable the vsync like others said but it doesn't really help and i get tearing so it's even worse.
Honestly the best Proton experience so far.
I have played more than 100 hours on windows (with two accounts) and i have never experienced this bug: After beating the demon boss that drops the titanite slab (can't remember the name) i opened the menu, then the "victory achieved" text popped up and since then i couldn't close the menu anymore nor i could interact with the menu itself, i had to force shut down the game. Problem is that the slab... disappeared forever... I also lost the 20k souls right after but that's just because i'm dumb, no bugs here. :v Also, i had some micro stuttering at the beginning, but since then i never got it again the days after. Now it's perfect like on winzoze 7.
I tried this game on Windows, as well as on Linux with different Proton versions. The benchmark is done on a snowy area with a simple FPS overlay, and then i would write down my experience. FPS are rounded according to approximations and how much the FPS matter at certain times ( ie i don't care if during a cut scene i get +50 FPS, get that out of my averages! ). ========================================================================================= WINDOWS: Min 80; Max 100; Average 90 ========================================================================================= LINUX PROTON 8: Min 65; Max 90; Average 75 ========================================================================================= PROTON GE 9: Min 70; Max 90; Average 80 ========================================================================================= LINUX PROTON 9(beta): Min 75; Max 100; Average 85 ========================================================================================= Examination: GE frees the cursor, if you have multiple monitors, the cursor is gonna go in that monitor while you move the camera. Not a problem if you play with the controller. With normal Proton 8, i got some frame skips that didn't register as low FPS. It happen only once while getting under one of those things that repair your baggages. Not a problem with GE9, Proton 9 or on Windows. Proton 9 behaved well enough to make me recommend it to everyone, even lower end graphics cards ( unless you got 4GB VRAM, in that case, stick to Windows and enable FSR or alikes ). Proton 9 behaved better then GE9, it was almost as good as on Windows. This is yet another instance in which i don't see the point of GE, as official Proton is clearly better. People ask about slow loading times int his game, and whether they are normal. Slow loading times in this game is absolutely normal on slow SSDs on either OS, it's not a Linux thing. The game loads pretty quick on an NVMe on Linux compared to a sata SSD.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%
The launch options i used are for mods.
Unplayable. I get like 10 fps.
Perfect out of the box, at least singleplayer.
I don't remember if i played the multiplayer on Linux or not. So i can only tell about my last singleplayer sessions.
It's perfect!
Don't worry! The studio has been saved so they will be able to make new games!
Perfect
I installed the game on both Windows and Linux OpenSuse. I couldn't play this game with a low end graphics card with 4 GB VRAM on Linux, but with a card that has more than that seems to make run the game similiarly to Windows. Here's my report ( FPS are approximate as i did everything by eye and memory ): Max settings, motion blur and depth of field off, 1080p. ========== WINDOWS > Min FPS: 100; Max FPS: 145; Average FPS: 120 ========== LINUX > Min FPS 100; Max FPS: 140; Average FPS: 120 ========== As you can see, the only difference is 5 max FPS, which we can discard as the difference is well within the human mistake. Both were tested against a Diablos in the Wildspire Waste.
I tried the GE 9 version of Proton but i got min FPS down to 90, and max FPS only to 130, so i would recommend normal Proton ( i used 8 ).
Crashes and broken world generation.
I played it up to the end of animal stage. On the animal stage it crashes sometimes. Annoying.
World generation is completely broken. Check this tweet for screenshots: https://twitter.com/Azarilh/status/1213250184840450050
Can't install some mods like the Dark Injection (which i recommend), but HD retextures are installable.
It's playable. Issues are minor.
Can't show other windows on top of the game. I am lucky i have two monitors.
Controller was not detected. Tried to disable Steam input like some said, but didn't work.
I get constant 58 FPS instead of 60 for whatever reason.
I had to use the Linux Runtime to run it smooth on OpenSUSE. After that, all perfect.
As expected.
On Kubuntu i didn't need to enable the Linux Runtime. Not sure why it needed it on my OpenSUSE.
Perfect
Did not play the game, really, only tested the framerate at the very beginning of the game. If you don't see any update after a month, then you can assume it's still perfect from me. I tested the game both on Windows and Linux, here's the difference i noticed by eye. ========== WINDOWS: Min FPS: 270; Max FPS: 460; Average FPS: 300 ========== LINUX: Min FPS: 240; Max FPS: 420; Average FPS: 280 ========== As you can see, the performance on Linux with my system was noticibly lower, but the averages were really close. The biggest difference is getting a lot of FPS while looking in the sky from Windows, which Proton is unable to achieve, but i would say it's not really that relevant. Those 30 FPS of difference might be noticable on low end PCs, so beware. One thing to point out is that i noticed two stutters on Windows, which i did not notice on Linux. They would probably disappear by capping the FPS tho, which i do recommend to always do when not benchmarking, in any game, for lower input latency. I tried GE but i got on average 10 to 15 less FPS, i still don't understand the point of GE, i always either get the same or worse performance.
gamescope -h 1080 -H 2160 --force-grab-cursor -- %command%
Cursor would not be locked. Had to add this in the launch options gamescope --force-grab-cursor -- %command%.
Poor performance, as expected by this kind of indie game, nothing unusual, even on Windows. It was especially bad in the basement.
Easy to fix.
gamemoderun %command%
FSR upscaling ( with or without framegen ) causes ghosting of anything. It's annoying. XeSS is Intel's alternative that works on AMD and Nvidia and it doesn't have the ghosting with seemingly same performance. Unfortunately XeSS has no framegen tho.
Fullscreen of any kind would cause weird blinking effect on the whole screen. The less FPS, the more of the blinking. It's normally noticeable only during loading and saving. I fixed it by forcing it on windowed mode ( not from the game as it doesn't work, on my system i use F11 to toggle fullscreen for anything ). You may need to manually remove the window titlebar and frame, it wasn't necessary for me for some reason. I do have to hide the appbar tho. This way it feels like fullscreen. It automatically goes back to fullscreen whenever i alt-tab, so i have to toggle windowed every time with F11.
Game is still not as optimised as it could be. It's not a Linux related problem.
Works*
*But the game is not well optimised yet; FSR gives problems so better stick with XeSS without frame gen for now. With framegen i could play with ray tracing ( hardware lumen ), otherwise it's better to use software lumen at low ( not really visibly different from high ( there is no medium ) ). Honestly i was surprised that i would get 50 fps with ray tracing without framegen and most settings at ultra or high, although unstable. With a 9070xt you might be able to play with ray tracing without frame gen. Technically the game is playable without tinkering, but i do suggest keeping in mind these issues that are easy to circumvent. You can also go on Nexus and look for a mod called "Ultimate Engine Tweaks" and see if that makes it better for you. Personally i don't think it did anything, but some say it did.
Works great overall!
Very rarely i would hear a voiced line double. In the whole series maybe it happen 3 to 5 times, no big deal.
Shadows break in certain places. No big deal.
It just won't start
I tried "protontricks -c winecfg 477870" that was suggested by someone else, but it gives me several errors. The game just won't start just like on windows which is funny. Game developers' fault here, not Proton.
