Game fixes

synth-ruiner

anyone had any luck with X-Com 2: War of the Chosen? I played it fine via Proton on Linux Mint a couple of years ago, and there's even a native Linux version now, but I couldn't get either version working on Solus recently.

YuriTheHenrique

synth-ruiner I have it, and I can confirm it doesn't play from steam... To play it, It is needed to enter game files and start the binary from the terminal.
but before I could play it, I had to install some dependencies, I don't really remember which... ldd the binary and see what is missing, after that eopkg sf "missing library" and install the package with the name.

It plays well, but unfortunately the video cutscenes shows a black screen with sounds, you can watch them from game files.
:/ I have contacted firaxis and they said this is a steam problem with built-in libraries, and they do not support native libraries from the system for various reasons, so steam should update it's libraries to solve this problem.

zmaint

synth-ruiner
Use the linux steam integration tool and select the steam libraries instead of native. Feral is using older libraries that causes it to crash on start.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold

Junglist Yep. Forgot to add fluid-soundfont as a dependency. Does anybody know why i can´t update my post to reflect that ?

Junglist

PoorPocketsMcNewHold Unfortunately I already had this package installed.

The music works when I used Lutris to play the game, but via Boxtron - no dice.

PS:
You can't edit posts once someone replies after you.

hdansin

PoorPocketsMcNewHold Glad it helped!

Junglist

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Steam, native version)

This fixes the unending black screen (the game doesn't even go into the menu, nothing appears).

Edit this file: /steamapps/common/Shadow of the Tomb Raider/ShadowOfTheTombRaider.sh

Replace this line in the .sh file:
${GAME_LAUNCH_PREFIX} ${GAME_SIGNAL_WRAPPER} "${GAMEROOT}/bin/${FERAL_GAME_NAME}" "$@"

Replace it with this line:
LC_ALL=C ${GAME_LAUNCH_PREFIX} ${GAME_SIGNAL_WRAPPER} "${GAMEROOT}/bin/${FERAL_GAME_NAME}" "$@"

PoorPocketsMcNewHold

Postal 4 : No Regerts

I currently do QA testing for Running With Scissors on this game, especially on Linux. I may share some fixes for it currently.
Fix video cutscenes not playing (Via proton)
The video cutscenes are in .mp4 and can be easily be watched from the game folder, so what's the issue there?
Well, Unreal Engine seems to require the Media Foundation codecs in order to do so, without it, and it will only play the sound of the video.
Currently, Media Foundation codecs has been merged into wine, but I’m uncertain if it has been, in the latest Proton versions. According to issue #1464 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464#issuecomment-710094016 https://github.com/HonkingGoose/proton_codecs_media_support_tracker/blob/main/tables/media_foundation.md_

If you still experience it, do so :
Clone the mf-install GitHub repo
Via git git clone https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install
Via gh gh repo clone z0z0z/mf-install
Via svn svn checkout https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install
Or just straight up download the repo and extract it from somewhere on your device.

Then, check where your Postal 4 game is installed, and copy the steamapps folder path.
Open a terminal prompt and do this command :
WINEPREFIX="PASTEYOURLOCATIONTOsteamapps/compatdata/707030/pfx" ./mf-install.sh
Replace obviously the PASTEYOURLOCATIONTOsteamapps with your steamapps file path.
Let it install its thing, and it should work!

Fix missing sound
I know for that particular one, that can happen to Unreal Engine 4 games in general.
I would suggest this is caused by Epic, dropping voluntary support for older Windows operating systems, has this issue started to appear quite along the time, that some Windows 7 users were reporting the same issue.
Ironically however, The fix for us, GNU/Linux users, is to... change the wine prefix of this game to Windows 7 (Yeah, I don’t know why either).
Install protontricks and input the following command :
protontricks 707030 win7
(Note for those trying this fix for other UE4 games, obviously replace 707030 by the corresponding steam id of your game. Look at your game Steam page URL to found it)

For Gog users running the game via wine, you can do the same with winetricks instead.
winetricks SELECTYOURPOSTAL4PREFIX win7

Laggy audio with Bluetooth headset
just disconnect & reconnect your headset, lol
No seriously, this fix the issue where the game/pulseaudio doesn’t correctly process the audio coming from it.

hdansin

Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Steam Proton)

The latest update broke fullscreen and borderless mode, which means if you were running it on that (like me) the game will crash at start with a UE4 error. Steps to fix:

Open the local files (in Steam: properties > browse local files) and navigate to SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/976730/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/MCC/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/GameUserSettings.ini
Open GameUserSettings.ini with a text editor and find the line that says FullscreenMode=# and change # to 2. It should read FullscreenMode=2
Save the changes, close the text editor, and it should launch.
I was able to run it in 'fullscreen' with the window manager (default shortcut is usually F11) without any issues.

Source

I also recommend using the latest Proton build by Glorious Eggroll. Instructions for installation are on Github.

Harvey

In case people are unaware https://www.protondb.com has a lots of Linux community advice on getting games running on Steam.

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Harvey ProtonDB has no affiliation with Valve Software.
That should be highlighted though.

Tjay

Can this topic maybe get a sticky or a link to this topic on the "Help Center" page, this could help allot of people.

JoshStrobl

[deleted] I'm not sure how any affiliation or lackthereof is of relevance.

[deleted]

JoshStrobl Keeping information accurate. Someone might think for example that by posting info there is helping valve for example.

hdansin

Black Mesa

I found out that the native linux version has very poor performance compared to running it with proton, not to mention having missing graphics features. In order to force steam to run it with proton go to properties > compatibility, and check "force the use of a specific steam play compatibility tool." In addition, enter -oldgameui in the launch options. I ran it with the latest proton by Glorious Eggroll and had a stable 60 FPS where it was dropping to 15 natively.

I'm still kind of baffled that the proton version runs so much better. If it runs that poorly, than why even say it supports linux at all?

Staudey

hdansin Yeah, pretty much the same situation for Dying Light, or at least used to be like that when I played it.

hdansin

Battlefield 4

Runs alright with Proton even though Origin is buggy, but that is a problem even on windows. The problem is with multiplayer. Some servers were kicking me because I had a missing ping. Run the following commands to fix (you will need to find where the version of proton you are using is located, this will not work if you just copy paste these commands):

sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ 5.13/dist/bin/wineserver
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ 5.13/dist/bin/wine-preloader
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ 5.13/dist/bin/wine64-preloader

You may need to re-run the commands if you switch proton versions or update. Note that custom Protons (such as GE's) may have a slightly different directory structure. Look for the bin folder, which contains wineserver, wine-preloader and wine64-preloader.

Source

hdansin

The latest GE-Proton has a fix for the Battlefield 4 ping issue. Haven't tested it yet but it is easier than running those commands.

alanwake82

hdansin

Thanks for these commands, helps me in Battlefield 4

hdansin

CIV VI with Proton

Native performance with Civ VI is stable but much slower compared to Windows. Not sure why this is, but there is now a way to play it with Proton and get much better performance! ~~You will need to download a modified version of Proton from this reddit post.~~

The fix has been added to mainstream proton. I tested it with GE's Proton-6.12 and it works. If the 2K launcher crashes on startup, simply keep clicking "Restart Launcher" until it works.

George

Strange Bricade

Open directory ~/steamapps/common/StrangeBrigade/bin/
Rename "StrangeBrigade.exe" to "StrangeBrigade.exe.org"
Create a backup of the Vulkan exe (StrangeBrigade_Vulkan.exe ---> StrangeBrigade_Vulkan (copy).exe)
Rename StrangeBrigade_Vulkan.exe to StrangeBrigade.exe

Play the game

PoorPocketsMcNewHold

Hedon

One issue when running Steam in native runtime mode, is that some games can complain not having access to some redistributables at all.
That’s the case for Hedon native version. I first thought for some weird reason it wanted to have gzdoom installed, but nope.

Install libbsd for it.

sudo eopkg it libbsd