What are you playing this weekend?

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Spud13y

Quoting: Mr. PinskyGTA V.

Yes, it runs on Steam Play/Proton :D

Needs a workaround to make it start, and it occasionally starts stuttering after a while, but overall it's a pretty smooth experience.

How? I've seen footage of it running on Linux, but couldn't find anything to tell me how to get past that Social Club loading.

Instead of telling you to go browse through a bunch of other posts, I'll outline *exactly* what I did to get my GTA V to work, get past social club and into the game (On Nvidia).

To get GTA V to work on Steam Play + Proton:

In Terminal, enter the following command, changing the dir to fit your own:

WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/271590/pfx
winetricks --gui

Then select default prefix, install a font and finally corefonts

I went this route because using the WINEPREFIX=/home/.../pfx winetricks corefonts command got stuck installing Gecko for me, and the gui powered through it somehow.

After that

Create a file called gta_dxvk.conf and copy/paste the following in it:

dxgi.customDeviceId = E366
dxgi.customVendorId = 1002

Then save it to your /home/<username>/ folder

Then go to the game properties in your Steam library and set launch options to:

PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/home/<username>/gta_dxvk.conf %command%

I also had to make sure in Nvidia Settings I activated "Force Full Composition Pipeline" and "Force Composition Pipeline," as they disabled themselves the last time I updated drivers. Without this, the game, for me, had tear-able tearing (pun intended).

Now I get 50-65FPS, though I do notice the textures can be a little wonky on the roads past a certain distance; but I think that has to do with the DXVK and Vulkan in the current edition of Nvidia Drivers I'm on, 396.54. I know the 396.54.02 supposedly fixed some stuff but it hasn't showed up in my graphics-drivers:ppa yet.

I hope this helps others get GTA V to work, doing the above steps makes it run flawlessly now for me.

https://github.com/Sirmentio/protontricks
in Terminal you just type protontricks {appid} {command} and it gets on with it for you.

Quoting: GuestIn Terminal, enter the following command, changing the dir to fit your own:

WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/271590/pfx
winetricks --gui

Then select default prefix, install a font and finally corefonts

I went this route because using the WINEPREFIX=/home/.../pfx winetricks corefonts command got stuck installing Gecko for me, and the gui powered through it somehow.

You should be able to avoid that mess by using Proton's wine binary like this:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/root/SteamApps/compatdata/271590/pfx" WINE="$HOME/.steam/root/SteamApps/common/Proton 3.7 Beta/dist/bin/wine" winetricks corefonts

Notice that SteamApps capitalization seems to differ between systems, and the Wine path assumes you have set Proton Beta as your compatibility tool in the Steam Play config. Also, you should naturally have winetricks installed for this to work.

A shell script to find and set up the environment variables wouldn't be difficult to write, so I assume someone who actually uses proton more extensively than I do has already done it. EDIT: I assumed right. See lucifertdark's comment above.


Last edited by tuubi on 1 September 2018 at 3:46 pm UTC

I just finished RAGE, via Proton on Linux. It was flawless gameplay. I will probably be playing Red Faction: Armageddon or Battlefield Bad Company 2. Also i need some help trying to get GTA V running. My social club window pops up, and it tries to have me login. Well then the window goes blank and i cant put any information in. Then the window starts sticking to it's location and i cant do anything with it, other than close it. I tried to add the comment to make it run in Offline mode, but it says it needs to be verified before i can do that.

Quoting: GuestInstead of telling you to go browse through a bunch of other posts, I'll outline *exactly* what I did to get my GTA V to work, get past social club and into the game (On Nvidia).

Did you actually need all of these? All I had to do was creating a .conf file and adding "DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=path_to_config/gta5.conf %command%" to the launch options.

I'm playing Windows games today with Steam Play:
Spelunky - I played it in 2013 when it was released but wasn't able to beat the final boss. A very addictive game.
Serious Sam 2. It may be the worst Serious Sam game but still fun to play. I had finished few levels in Wine, then it stopped working after one of Wine updates. It works fine with Proton, but performs bad, at about 30 fps.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it. Well, since it is oficially supported for Steam Play, I have no reason for not playing it now. I had been playing Clear Sky though (and didn't finish it).
GTA V with that workaround desribed above. It turns out there's no Steam Cloud and RGSC has not kept my savings either, and I lost 46 hours of playing. Three years passed since I played it, so I forgot all the story anyway, but I'm still angry.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I played it back in 2006 and remember it as a very scary game. I heard it runs very bad on Windows newer than XP, but on Linux I haven't experienced any crashes so far.

Deadlight using Proton. I bought that game years ago as devs said they want to port it to Linux. They never did and it ended up being wasted money. I will get some of it back now through trade cards, the game itself is so-so and visual artefacts don't help me enjoy it.

After that I'm off to Walking Dead and few other worthy games I accumulated before I switched to Linux or were freebies afterwards. In the future I plan purchasing only the white listed Windows games, but might roll a dice on a classic if dirt cheap.

Update. I followed the post with the walkthrough. I can now put in my user information in Social Club. Thanks!

Quoting: ageresSpelunky - I played it in 2013 when it was released but wasn't able to beat the final boss. A very addictive game.
Serious Sam 2. It may be the worst Serious Sam game but still fun to play. I had finished few levels in Wine, then it stopped working after one of Wine updates. It works fine with Proton, but performs bad, at about 30 fps.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it. Well, since it is oficially supported for Steam Play, I have no reason for not playing it now. I had been playing Clear Sky though (and didn't finish it).
GTA V with that workaround desribed above. It turns out there's no Steam Cloud and RGSC has not kept my savings either, and I lost 46 hours of playing. Three years passed since I played it, so I forgot all the story anyway, but I'm still angry.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I played it back in 2006 and remember it as a very scary game. I heard it runs very bad on Windows newer than XP, but on Linux I haven't experienced any crashes so far.

You'll be happy to know that the other two Stalker games work perfectly with Steam Play, not sure why they weren't added to the Whitelist with the first one.


Last edited by lucifertdark on 1 September 2018 at 4:52 pm UTC

GZDoom with some mods as always. I still have many wads to play.

Quoting: ageresStalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. Must be I'm the last man on Earth who haven't played it.

If you haven't finished/played it then you'd better play with OGSE mod.


Last edited by axredneck on 1 September 2018 at 5:00 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Spud13y

Quoting: Mr. PinskyGTA V.

Yes, it runs on Steam Play/Proton :D

Needs a workaround to make it start, and it occasionally starts stuttering after a while, but overall it's a pretty smooth experience.

How? I've seen footage of it running on Linux, but couldn't find anything to tell me how to get past that Social Club loading.

Instead of telling you to go browse through a bunch of other posts, I'll outline *exactly* what I did to get my GTA V to work, get past social club and into the game (On Nvidia).

To get GTA V to work on Steam Play + Proton:

In Terminal, enter the following command, changing the dir to fit your own:

WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/271590/pfx
winetricks --gui

Then select default prefix, install a font and finally corefonts

I went this route because using the WINEPREFIX=/home/.../pfx winetricks corefonts command got stuck installing Gecko for me, and the gui powered through it somehow.

After that

Create a file called gta_dxvk.conf and copy/paste the following in it:

dxgi.customDeviceId = E366
dxgi.customVendorId = 1002

Then save it to your /home/<username>/ folder

Then go to the game properties in your Steam library and set launch options to:

PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/home/<username>/gta_dxvk.conf %command%

I also had to make sure in Nvidia Settings I activated "Force Full Composition Pipeline" and "Force Composition Pipeline," as they disabled themselves the last time I updated drivers. Without this, the game, for me, had tear-able tearing (pun intended).

Now I get 50-65FPS, though I do notice the textures can be a little wonky on the roads past a certain distance; but I think that has to do with the DXVK and Vulkan in the current edition of Nvidia Drivers I'm on, 396.54. I know the 396.54.02 supposedly fixed some stuff but it hasn't showed up in my graphics-drivers:ppa yet.

I hope this helps others get GTA V to work, doing the above steps makes it run flawlessly now for me.

Instead of disabling e-sync you could try to get it working. See the prerequisites https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/README.esync
In my case (Fedora 28) I had to increase my file descriptors. So for Fedora and most likely other systemd based distributions just put
[Manager]
DefaultLimitNOFILE=65535
into /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/limits.conf

Next to that please also ensure that your CPU governor is set to performance. I have installed Feral gamemode (https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode which is part of the standard Fedora repositories and prefixed my launch options with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/\$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0

So finally my launch command is:
LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/\$LIB/libgamemodeauto.so.0 DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=~/.steam/dxvk-gta5.conf %command%

I don't have to set "Force Full Composition Pipeline" and "Force Composition Pipeline", both options are off on my system. Though I do have a g-sync compatible monitor, that takes care that no tearing occurs.


Last edited by jens on 1 September 2018 at 5:31 pm UTC

I am playing Cuphead and everything works fine even my PS4 controller is recognized.

I think the only problem I have is that proton uses a lot of CPU power.
For Example playing cuphead it uses all the cores at 95% of the AMD 1950x and the temperatures can get up to 70c (idle is around 45-50)

I have tried also playing The Wolf Among Us and it uses only one core at 95%