Crossfader
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if you don't care about missing audio in cutscenes but want proper graphics, use 6.3-8 and turn on subtitles in Options.
Audio is fine in proton version 7.0-4 and proton experimental. In proton 6.3-8, the audio disappears in cutscenes.
When using the flashlight, grey squares appear in proton 7.0-4 and proton experimental, 6.3-8 is fine.
7.0-4 and Experimental has proper audio, but for me using Linux Ubuntu, the rendering of mobs gets a bit broken when using the flashlight. In 6.3-8, the graphics render properly, but the audio disappears in cutscenes, turning on subtitles helps with this.
This is an update on a previous review I made 2 months ago. Proton Experimental has been updated to the point the game does not experience any of the problems I saw previously with the older Proton versions, including Experimental.
Everything works perfectly, both the rendering of the enemies and the audio in cutscenes.
I started the game from the beginning, I might have seen a window flicker in a cutscene, maybe rendering of assets is not 100%, but it's 99.9%, honestly, you will only notice something is wrong if you look really hard. After an hour of play, I can say the game just runs perfect out of the box if you switch to experimental.
I get the dreaded black screen, and depending onthe proton version, I either hear the game or it just freezes.
STENCIL x=1280 y=960 -windowed
I do see the game trying to render an image at the beginning, the image is flickering, and it seems because at the bottom right corner, a steam pop up window appears. This happens with Proton versions 6.3-8, and 5.13-6, bellow that I'll just get a black screen and no sound. Above that, with 7.0-3 it is black screen with sound. Proton experimental just causes the game to crash upon launch.
I did try to set it on windowed and with a 4:3 resolution but still a black screen.
Launch Options : "STENCIL x=1280 y=960 -windowed"
The game works fine, just the intro video and other videos don't work. Go to youtube and look them up if you never played this game before.
Used Proton 8.0-4
Intro video and other videos do not play, just black screen. Recommendation, just skip them.
I have not tried the launch options for window resizing or to window it. Just works out of the box now with Proton 8.0-4. Proton 8.0-4 has fixed so many older games, so awesome!!!!!
Just download the game and set it to Proton Experimental and you are golden. Game is Unreal Engine 5 custom.
I also tried the triple screen mode without any success, I assume it will only work on windows through Nvidia or AMD software, like ACC. Guess it is a game I will try it with VR too.
Won't launch, perhaps my GPU is the issue?
Tried with Proton Experimental and Proton 6.3-6 and the error error message was 'No matching resolution was selected for the display' .
So I tried older Proton versions, 5.13-6 and 5.0-10 and it says that my GPU R9 290x does not support DirectX 12.
The strange thing is my GPU is a R9 390x, but I guess it uses the same drivers and so it also won't support DirectX 12.
This is a dual boot PC, I have Death Stranding installed on this PC in my windows OS and it runs fine, there is the occasional freeze, but it runs there with this GPU.
It runs great!! Very smooth. Just make sure to update your GPU drivers.
The only issue is lighting and shadows, you can see lighting flickering at HQs when you go down or up the ramp. Shadows also flicker and you can see missing patches on the shadows. The chrome reflection on the packages also looks weird.
My computer is kind of old, so I know it struggles to run Death Stranding at 60 fps. With low settings I had been able to get 60 fps in Windows 10, though it does slow down during heavy rain, when BTs show up. In Linux Mint with Vulkan and low settings, the game wavers between 35-50 fps, I haven't tried checking fps during a BT moment tho.
Like I said before, make sure you update your GPU drivers. I'm new to Linux so I am learning as I go. I didn't know that my MSI R9 390x was having conflicts with Radeon modules in the AMD drivers.
I learned it here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements
After I disabled the Radeon modules, and set Proton back to 6.3-6, everything just started working perfectly!!! Linux is awesome, and so is Steam!!
Game crashes while launching, black screen with error report.
I tried without Proton, I've tried it with Proton Experimental, I even tried BroWren tinker method, none have worked, I just get a crash right as the game launches, something about Worker coming to a halt. One time it was Worker 7, another time it was Worker 4, I have no idea what it means.
I'll wait for a newer Proton version to come up.
Works fine with version 7.0-1 without any launch options
Ignore my previous report, I should have tried the current stable Proton version before I made a report, game works great and smooth.
It runs well, you might need to change Proton version to get Origin to work.
It downloaded and installed properly. Unfortunately the Origin window would pop up for a couple of seconds and shut down, and the game would close. After reading a few reviews I realised it was an issue with Origin window not rendering properly and crashing. So instead of trying native Linux, I enabled Proton with Proton Experimental, still the same thing. Then Proton 6.3.8, now the Origin window rendered longer before crashing. Finally I tried Proton 5.13-6 and that is when Origin window properly rendered, I was able to install Origin, log into my account and start playing Dead Space 3, played for 3+ hours without a graphical or audio glitch.
Hope this helps others!!!
Natively - I press Start, it's launching and then it exits.
Proton Experimental - the game does launch and I see the Dota logo, then the screen goes black and I see an arrow and the game freezes shortly after.
Proton 6.3.7 - I usually get a bit further, it launches, I see the Dota logo, it loads and it crashes loading the main menu, I usually can see the background.
I wonder if my GPU has anything to do with it, AMD MSI R9 390X, the AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan does not support this card, so I had to disable the Radeon modules on my vulkan driver so I could play Death Stranding, wonder it it's causing problems here.
Game crashes and exits when trying to load a map.
Native is still broken for me, that hasn't changed from my previous report, but I did come across Launch Options at the Dota 2 wiki page, tried different setups and had some success, I can at least get into the menu without it crashing. The game now crashes when trying to load a map, be it for bots, or when trying to do the Learning to Play lessons. The videos work fine though.
The setting I use for launch is: -noprewarm
It seems the reason Dota 2 was crashing while trying to launch the game is because of trying to load resources needed to play a match. Probably why now it only crashes when trying to create a match, once inside the game menu.
I also added: -novid Just to skip the initial video, to make testing launch settings easier.
Anyways, it seems some Dota 2 resources are causing the game to crash, not sure the reason but I hope it helps the proton developers if they ever come across my report, hope it gives them a clue. Somehow I still think my MSI R9 390X has something to do with it.... I need a new PC. For the Launch Options for Dota 2, go to : https://dota2.fandom.com/wiki/Launch_Options
It is working really well now Natively. MSI AMD R9 390X GPU
It is working really well now with my old GPU, before it would crash regardless if natively or with Proton.
The game crashed at start up, it complained it needed DirectX 11 installed. I then added Proton Experimental, and it crashed. Changed to Proton 6.3-6 and still crashed.
So I decided to add the following line to Launch Options that I came across when installing Age of Empires II (2013) and checking it's ProtonDB page.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
The game started right away, just experienced a brief freeze at the starting video, but don't panic, it will run fine and you will be able to game fine.
It seems it was built with Unity engine.
PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
It needs Proton Experimental, it does not need any launch options, as I've tried with and without any launch options. I do get the issue with the mouse not going to the bottom of the screen or to the far right, but as a previous person said, just alt+tab, and it's fine.
PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
If you play at 1080p and experience the mouse not moving all the way to the right or the bottom, just alt+tab quickly and it should fix the problem.
PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
If you decide to play at 1080p and your mouse is restricted, just quickly alt+tab, it should fix the issue.
Game in Early Access, very unstable in Windows, not working on Linux
I have tried to start it with Proton 8.0-5, Proton Experimental and GE-Proton8-27 and the game will launch, it will show the company's logo, then a black window will pop up but it won't render anything and then it will crash. Same behaviour in all three versions.
The Game is in Early Access, mixed reviews on Steam, a lot of negative reviews for it being very unstable on Windows and crashing all the time. I'm sure as it becomes more stable, it will start to work on Linux.
Le Mans Ultimate uses the rFactor 2 game engine, and rFactor 2 works on Linux, so I'm confident it will eventually work. I just hope they don't add DRM.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%
So I think I might have stumpled over a fix for the black screen problem. It is the screen resolution. I switched to the older 5.13-6, from the 6.3-8, and both my monitors went black instead of just my primary left monitor, same as usual, can hear the person explaining the mission but nothing more. Decided to look around the settings, just fooling around, found the screen resolution and decided to change it, voila, the screen displays properly. Settings > Customize > Graphics, change your screen resolution. For me it was the max one, from1024x768x32 to 1920x1080x32. Left monitor now displays the game, and the right monitor stays black, but I can play my missions no problem. Tried changing back to proton 6.3-8 but it was still black with the new resolution. Launch options didn't matter between PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% and PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% , both worked. Will try later with higher details, but for now happy that it works. Just wish I could window it.
Game works fine, minus the cut scenes/videos, with current proton 7.0.1.
Cut Scenes don't work, so just skip them. Apparently, from previous reports you need to install wmp11 or something. Everything else is working fine, the game is very playable.
The game starts fine in Proton 7.0.1 but the displayed background is unstable.
Resident Evil and Resident Evil 0 use videos and/or photos with paralax, Resident Evil works fine but Resident Evil 0 sometimes has the background properly displayed and other times it is completely missing making the game very hard to play.
Cut Scenes don't properly display.
I came across this youtube video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-_vW-c4B0" and I downloaded the game fix from one of the two links in it's video description "https://www.mediafire.com/file/g23xwaval9esowo/BH5-Fixes.zip/file" . opened Local Files folder for RE5 game and copied and pasted the files.
It just works!!
My RE5 copy is the regular RE5 and not RE5 Gold, but witht he replaced files, it's RE5 Gold now, which is the version Capcom replaced GFWL with Steamworks.
Anyways, hope this helps other people.
Only downside is the intro video for the first chapter, it has no sound, I'm on Proton 7.0.2, gameplay has sound and all other cutscenes so far. Only played about 30 minutes to test it.
Audio missing in the intro video for chapter 1-1.
So happy to finally be able to play it on Steam, Steam would not let me purchase Gold Edition since I have the original with the DLC, Gold Edition is the version you want, it has no GFWL, was replaced with Steamworks.
The game fix did the job, now I can play all my RE games on steam.
I have played it before with Linux Mint and Linux Ubuntu following the setup with winetricks and protontricks. But this time it went different, I built a brand new PC with a gigabyte aorus xtreme x670 motherboard, using it's internal audio hardware and software. Installed Fedora 38, downloaded Pulseaudio Volume Control, disabled the Rocksmith cable in Configuration. I did install Winetricks and Protontricks, but I never did any tinkering with them, all I did was start Rocksmith 2014 for the first time to create a config file, but I started hearing guitar audio right away. Maybe it is Fedora, maybe it is the new Linux Kernel 6.2+ But it seems Winetricks and Protontricks is not needed anymore.
The game runs really well, and it's one of my favorite Civilization games. My PC is from 2015, nothing impressive, but the game runs smooth.
I've played the game a few times here in Linux, during my 1st time playing, the audio stopped working after 30 minutes. Ever since then, it's been working fine. Not sure what happened, but nothing game breaking.
It does not launch in Fedora 38.
I've had it run before in Ubuntu 22.04, that is when I bought it. i switched to Fedora when I built a new PC because I needed a newer Linux Kernel and Mesa drivers for the hardware I'm using. Unfortunately, it will simply not launch in Native, and when I try to run Proton, regardless of version, I get a game crash when I attempt to launch it. It is the only game that fails to work after switching to Fedora.
