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I have a MacBook Air (I know, it is shit). I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. I have 4 GB of Ram, core i5 5th generation and Intel HD 6000 integrated graphics. I am trying to use Steam Play to play Grand Theft Auto 5 on my laptop. After installing some fonts, it started right up and worked quite well. When running the benchmarks I was getting 24-30 FPS. However, every few seconds the game would freeze for 2-3 seconds before resuming. It is like the game paused. This is very frustrating. Furthermore, many assets fail to load after playing for a while. I can't even get passed the first mission "Franklin and Lamar" without the game freezing then crashing. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I switch OS? I am using Proton 5.0. Am I just destined to this bad gaming experience until I buy a new laptop?
Thanks! Have a nice day!
The stuttering might be shaders compiling and usually improves after a while (when all shaders are cached).
The Intel GPU might be a source of trouble too, not sure if it's at all supported by DXVK these days.
Might be worth a try to run the game with DX10 instead of 11.
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edit: also i think your integrated GPU takes some RAM away from system for its use
Last edited by Xpander on 11 February 2020 at 10:45 am UTC
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GTA V was made for consoles with 512 MB RAM only. It has 4 GB as its min system requirements on Steam.
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As for Intel's Vulkan driver on Linux, I can speak from personal experience that it's not as bad as it used to be, I tested with games such as The Witcher 3, Darksiders 3 and Guild Wars 2. They all ran without graphics issues but the performance in the first 2 titles was far from playable.
Thanks!
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Did you tried valve's fsync patch?
For me it helped with Ben and Ed blood party. The game was freezing just like yours, and I installed valve's kernel, and it stoped. Right now i'm on xanmod kernel(don't know if fsync is enabled by default).
I waneted to try GTA V on my laptop to see if there are any hags on my laptop, but when I saw 90GB download, I stoped..
My laptop config:
OS: Ubuntu 19.10 with 5.4.18-xanmod10 kernel
CPU: Intel Core i3-7130 2.70GHz x4
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
RAM: 3,7 GIB
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console and pc aren't same. and minimum specs are bullshit, we are talking about small overhead from using proton also + the IGP is using system ram for its use also. not saying it can't be anything else, but the poster doesnt even give info how much hes system is being used while in the game. GPU usage, CPU usage, RAM usage, temps etc