Skitty
Published
GAME WORKS BETTER THAN EXPECTED, BUT AI SCRIPTS LAG MORE SO THAN ON WINDOWS
I have previously played this game extensively on Windows and for some reason, the traffic AI script appears to greatly lag this game on Linux when it is only ten cars. I get about 7 FPS on my Linux system where I would normally get about 20-30 on Windows with this processor. Disabling the AI brings me back to over 30 FPS, regardless of whether that cars are sill visible or not.
Game has crashed once after crashing my car, but this is probably not related to Proton considering that this game FREQUENTLY crashes regardless of the platform you are on after crashing your vehicles. It's not uncommon for the game to crash.
I see many people complain about missing textures. I have not been able to identify any missing textures on any map as of the past few days of playing.
Game installs and runs, but has choppy/laggy frame-rate every second.
Frame-Rate Choppy/Frame hiccups
I've run this game on windows and had a similar framerate on linux, but it is unplayable to do peculiar frame hiccups that occur every second.
Amazed that this works so well.
Honestly, playing GTA V on arch linux is a better experience than playing this on windows. I used to get lag and crashes when alt tabbing into discord in this but it's fine on this system. I can play this on its highest settings, furthest render distance, and the frame-rate is buttery smooth. Still can't believe this game works so well on this system, coming from someone who last tried Linux gaming 10 years ago.
UPDATE: AS LONG AS YOU STAY OUT OF WINDOWED MODE, THIS GAME HAS AN ALMOST (IF NOT) NATIVE EXPERIENCE
Full-screen works perfectly well, I'm not sure, but it is almost as if I somehow get even better performance on proton than I did on windows. However, starting the game in windowed mode causes GPU to never be fully utilized and hovered at around 15% @ 2-5 FPS until I discovered the culprit of the performance issue was the windowing mode used.
Controls were as laggy as the game when in windowed mode, but otherwise works as expected when the game is running at nominal capacity given my systems capabilities.
Switching to windowed mode, then restarting the game after a reboot causes extreme lag, about 3FPS down from my typical 80FPS in fullscreen.
Game has crashed only once while playing. The unexpected crash appeared to have been as a result of switching to a particular high-end bumper in a Sultan RS in the northern most west garage. This is not much of an issue considering that it is the only crash I've suffered for a duration of or about 24 hours in playtime I've now amassed on this system.
It appears as though when starting the game in full-screen mode, then switching to windowed mode in-game produces no abnormalities. I was even able to restart the game once or twice and have it load directly into Windowed mode without issue. However, it was the following day which gave rise to the abnormal lag, I was not sure what the problem plaguing my game was for a while, but It was when I decided to ride out the extended load time then switch to full-screen mode in-game that I discovered the extreme choppiness and lag was somehow related to the game windowing mode I had previously selected (which to add to the confusion, had previously worked perfectly fine). Running verify integrity of game files had done nothing to remediate the issue.
Game is slow.
Very slow input response.
5fps
Game crashes a few seconds into loading.
I made a report before on this, the game used to run better on this linux system than it did on windows somehow, but as of yesterday, I started to get no more than 40 FPS, so I decided to lower the graphics settings from the highest available to the lowest possible, and now despite several changes of graphics settings, mid, ultra, lowest, I get no more than 10 FPS. Other games of mine work as they have normally worked before. The only thing I have not done is delete the shader cache because I don't know where it is.
Rodina Works Great on Linux
Love this game, and it works amazingly on proton. However, do not enable vsync in the graphics settings, unless you want your frame-rate to drop to subzero FPS. I'm quite sure that setting worked as intended on windows, but not here.
GAME IS PLAYABLE APART FROM SOME MINOR ISSUES WITH THE IN GAME GARAGE
There is some kind of overlay the game is using, possibly "Sciter" as I'm convinced it is an HTML render engine. This portion of the games interface, when activated to display YouTube videos will completely bug out, cause excessive CPU usage, and will not actually display anything it was designed to do, forcing you to guess where the exit button is located or simply kill and restart the game. Luckily, it appears the game is still playable without these bloated HTML render overlays that nuke my systems typically good performance straight into oblivion.
I should note here that I am not using the steam version of the game, but actually downloaded the installer from the website instead in order to use non steam related accounts I've had for many years. The process of installing the game was time consuming considering that it is required to add the installer to proton, run the installation process, then locating where it was installed, removing the installer and then creating a library entry for the game to run over proton experimental. There were minor control position issues with the installer, but nothing that would stop you from installing the game correctly.
