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Need For Speed Undercover (2008)

windows native,originally made to run on windows xp and vista.

for best experience ,use Proton version 5.0-10 (i think the other versons have some problems)

this game has not been updated for several years (discontinued in 2017) and hence there are some display related issues with the game (broken roadmarks,blurry in-game signboards etc)

I noted that during the start of any race,a certain cutscene plays and then the screen zooms out weirdly and the game freezes for a second,so by the time the game returns to its normal state all your opponents would be long gone.

(Pro tip: use manual transmission for better control over your vehicle and reduce in-game music volume to concentrate on driving)

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More fixes for Need For Speed Undercover

The graphical issues i mentioned in my above post can be just partially solved by adjusting the in-game video settings

Here are some of them that i found useful and working in my machine:

1) enabling v-sync [this has shown to reduce screen tearing (atleast in my case) and the game's fps will be set to your monitor's refresh rate (60 Hz for me)]

2) set shadows to either 'low' or 'medium'. However,just as expected turning this setting off gives a massive performance boost (i got +20 fps!)

3) If you set world effects and world objects to high, all particles will be loaded and this mostly solves the 'broken roadmarks' issue that i mentioned in my previous post.

4) the broken steam overlay can be fixed now, but the guide i have for that is for windows 10 only 🙁 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1138005386

5) if you press alt+tab in-game to switch back to the desktop,the game freezes and would remain that way until you forcefully close it somehow. there isnt a real fix for this other than running the game in windowed mode.

many more issues exists within the game, and i will post them here if i find a solution.

Infinitely Shader Vulkan processing when i started Metro Exodus. Does anyone know how this is repaired?

    George Were you able to skip it? I have had it get stuck on Halo, but restarting got it working.

        3 months later

        Killing Floor 2 Update

        KF2 recently switched voice chat services. This makes the fix I posted obsolete. I was able to run it fairly well with the latest Proton GE, though I haven't tested it extensively.

        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.

            zmaint hmm, I already have "use native runtime" switched off - I don't know if I ever had it switched on either. thanks anyway!

              6 days later

              Halo: MCC Update

              Seems the recent update made the UI crash happen again. I was able to get it running by adding -windowed to the steam launch properties. Switched the game to borderless in the video settings, and it ran fine.

              Additionally, if you are trying to run it with a newer proton version and encountering difficulties, you may need to delete the prefix, which should be located in steamapps/compatdata/. Find the folder with the ID 976730, back up save data inside it if you wish, and then delete it. The next time you run the game, proton will automatically remake and configure the prefix.

              Source.

              Fingers crossed that 343 turns on the EAC switch soon.

              a month later

              528491 Nice! I've been running it with Proton since I heard the native version is not relly supported anymore.

                  2 months later

                  alanwake82 Glad it helped! Supposedly the latest GE Proton has a fix for it too.

                    15 days later

                    Splitgate

                    I've had it crash with a UE4 error when loading. To work around this, set %command% -windowed -no-border in the steam launch options and then make it fullscreen with F11 or whatever your fullscreen shortcut is after it connects to the server and loads passed the title screen. It can also crash if you're using Mongohud, so make sure that's disabled.

                    Counter Strike Global Offensive

                    if you are using a desktop environment where the panel can't be hidden, but it prevents you from changing the setting from windowed to full screen, do this:

                    1. Exit the game
                    2. Open the options by clicking on the game on the left side of the screen or on the gear
                    3. Add the -fullscreen option

                    GLHF, rookie

                    2 months later

                    Itch.io Client

                    The installer works, but apparently some complications with Electron and glibc causes the app not to work. The workaround for now is to launch itch with the --no-sandbox option.

                    If you want to make this change work in the menu, you can use the program menulibre from the repo, Just add --no-sandbox at the end of the command section.

                    Source: Github Issue

                      hdansin I've been waiting about 2 years for them to update their Electron wrappers! hopefully Leaf actually manages it soon.

                          synth-ruiner Yeah Electron seems to be having a moment, at least with the apps I use 😛 . I try not to jump on the hate wagon, especially because the languages I know the best are HTML, CSS and JavaScript -- but for something that is supposed to be platform-agnostic it seems to run into a lot of dependency/platform issues (for me at least).

                              hdansin mm, my problem is that I made some web applications that use WebAssembly, which is admittedly a kinda bleeding-edge way of doing things, but many of my users are trying to use them via the Itch desktop program (which runs web content in an electron wrapper) and it just doesn't work 🙁