Isaac Clarke S-laughter
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Even tho it can not be easily modded, each and every Proton Version allows anyone to actually play the game smoothly, without major bugs.
DXVK_FRAME_RATE=144 %command%
tl;dr I made a post on Steam's Community https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3424834997
As MY Guide states, "Proton Experimental & Hotfix don't allow me to edit game settings, BUT allow the mod to work even if it was made to only work on Windows".
I REALLY advice you to read my Guide, I had to figure out a couple of things by myself, since they were not easy to find at all.
Proton manages to get almost 1to1 with W10, but sometimes it just bugs out. Source doesn't play that nice with Proton for some reason...
-w 1280 -h 720
Sometimes it crackles while it slows down a little for a moment, it's like it's caching something...
Sometimes the water's rendering "skips" with a white zone where the reflection "gets stuck" instead of moving with the camera.
Framerate caps at screen's refresh rate.
THIS is the most stable Proton version for this game. I read Lost Coast runs natively, but that's not my goal, I want to figure out how to make Source Engine games perform AS WELL as they do on Windows 10 before oct2025 because I don't like my hardware working harder to get the same or lower results.
"Typical gamers" don't fixate on hardware or performance. Most just drop €1000 or more on either PC or Console and as long as it looks good and the FPS is enough for the action (BG3 technically needs only 30 stable) they'll be happy with it, even if the rig may waste some power for the same performance. I instead want to understand the problems with Source and Proton and fix them.
As soon as you take the first steps towards the fisherman after you spawn, it freezes, loops the audio and just don't get out of it.
-w 1280 -h 720
I have already waited a couple of minutes to see if it de-freezes after some time. It acts like this with some versions of Proton too.
"But 144 stable is enough" is not good, I want my hardware to be used properly, otherwise it's more work for the same result, or less...
-windowed
Sometimes it "bites": it either goes out for a moment or it crackles.
The framerate caps at my monitor's top. Makes it difficult to test out performance properly. Only Windowed 1440p allowed me to get the proper test going to compare 1 to 1 with Windows 10.
1440p, EVERYTHING except Vsync maxxed, the game should RARELY hit 100% GPU use because it just does not do that on Windows 10. Different Protons (3.16-9 & Experimental) work with the same result, mostly. This version is "the most stable vanilla option I have found".
Sometimes, when deciding the version of Proton, either the color range gets reduced (looks compressed) or the rendering just breaks; one time something went wrong and a windows-crash_Blue "big pixels flood" rendered over some things on the screen when going fullscreen to windowed.
I would really like to just find, written in bold, BIG 172 dimention letters, "Here's THE Proton version which just makes Source Games run as well as on Windows". Source games only act like this consistently, because W40Ksm2 and Helldivers 2 just go as well as on Windows, and outliers like War Thunder are a beast of their own.
