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First things first, the game would not launch after installing in Lutris, but I read some people had succcess installing it from the Epic Game Launcher (through Lutris ?). I went with Heroic Game Launcher, the game installation ran without problems.
But, I had black / missing textures, and a lot of frame drops, presumably when new objects / effects were loaded (we are talking about freezes up to several seconds here). I tried with protonGE, but then the game wouldn't launch. Same when activating DXVK on Heroic Game Launcher... and I found out that the DXVK package was simply not installed on my computer !
Switching to DXVK, textures appeared, but there were still freezes. Using Corectrl, I switched the CPU to Performance mode, but the change was not very perceptible.
Then, I remembered reading on protonDB that some games were having trouble when the CPU had a lot of core, using starting at 16, which is the case on my Ryzen 5800x; also, some people had trouble when SMT was enabled on those CPU (including on Windows, especially for Threadrippers) So, I looked on how to disable SMT, and I found that useful script t turn SMT off, which will last until reboot (or if you manually set SMT on).
Magic: Legends was now playing almost perfectly ; switching the CPU to Performance mode helped reducing the last frame drops, and now I can finally enjoy the game
tl;dr:
- install the game from Epic Game Launcher / Heroic Game launcher
- make sure DXVK is installed and enabled for the game (if there are black/missing textures, it is probably not enabled)
- if freezes, try disabling SMT / Hyperthreading before launching the game
- set CPU to performance mode to further reduce frame drops
Hope this will be of some use
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fJsyjtsz-o
Well, that's nice to hear if it is working right away for some people, but I definitely needed the tweak to get a gameplay as smooth as in the video
Today, I had to connect it to another computer for troubleshooting, and forgot to plug it back on my computer. The game was smooth without having to disable hyperthreading / set Performance mode on the CPU.
Good thing to know
Yes,j I learned this yesterday... Sad.