velyka krevetka
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Game runs fine with occasional stutters and game logic slow downs, might run smoother with another Proton Versions
Game runs fine most of to time, but there is definitely some noticeable stutter every now and than even on low settings without AI.
The game logic seems to struggle from time to time leading to the game slowing down to slow-motion while still running at full FPS. Seems to happen a lot when driving on gravel, crashing or when a lot of AI cars are around you at the start of a race.
Okayish performance for such a complex game, other than that a great out-of-the-box experience
Your FPS (especially with traffic enabled) will highly depend on your hardware configuration. Just driving around without traffic worked flawlessly for me even on high settings. Traffic enabled basically halved my FPS, but the game remained playable. Crashing my car with traffic enabled put me way below 30 FPS which added a dramatic slo-mo effect to the whole game.
Very smooth gameplay after applying winetrick fix
Without applying the winetricks fix the game would just freeze and close right before starting the round.
I had to force Steam to use Proton 3.16.9 via the Steam compatibility settings in order to be able to apply the winetricks fix a lot of other people recommended. The execution of the command "WINEPREFIX=/path/to/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/8800/pfx winetricks d3dx9 msxml3 msxml4 vcrun2003 quartz devenum corefonts lucida tahoma" would otherwise just fail with an error message. Newer Proton version could possibly work as well. Haven't tested all of them...
Surprisingly good perfomance, Multiplayer works just fine after changing Temp folder permissions
Note
When I first started playing this game on Windows after it launched into Early-Access I would have NEVER expected, that it would be even remotely close to being playable in Linux anytime soon... But this has been the most surprising Steam Play experience I ever had.
Performace
FPS are just up there with the native Windows version for me. Game runs butter smooth in most scenarios, even in the most intense Multiplayer moments.
EAC Error Fix
After launching the game for the first time it will give you the EAC error that a lot of other people already reported. Simply removing the write files permission from the folder
/path/to/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/393380/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Temp
for everyone fixed that issue. You can either do that by navigating to the mentioned folder using you file explorer, right-clicking the
Tempfolder and changing the settings under the permissions tab or by simply running
sudo chmod 555 /path/to/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/393380/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Temp
from your Terminal.
