Game fixes

alanwake82

Thanks for these commands, helps me in Battlefield 4

hdansin

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

hdansin

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.

George

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:

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

GLHF, rookie

hdansin

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

synth-ruiner

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

hdansin

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).

synth-ruiner

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 🙁

hdansin

Halo MCC (again)

Apparently they are trying to get the anti cheat to work with Proton, but they broke it again (Source).

Fix:

Open game properties -> Browse Local Files
Delete or rename the easyanticheat folder (I renamed mine to easyanticheat-broken)

[deleted]

I have an issue with Civilization VI. When I'm going to quit the game I find myself playing more and more turns. Is there a fix to that? Is it a Proton issue?

snowee

Are there any recommended "Launch Options" for Elden Ring?
ProtonDB shows many users with differing Launch Options ... not sure which combination are ideal for Solus Budgie users.

hdansin

snowee I don't have Elden Ring so I can't give a solid answer. I would recommend trying it without launch options, and if you encounter any problems try changing proton versions (I usually go for Proton Experimental), then launch options. Seems like it works out of the box for most people.

Staudey

snowee I don't own Elden Ring either, but there was some discussion about it on the subreddit (though a couple months old info by now), see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/tu7y0x/getting_elden_ring_to_work_on_solus/

bleh

PoorPocketsMcNewHold This was a game changer for me. I only really play brawlhalla and doing all this had the game instantly running better than it ever did when I had windows on my machine. Nothing ran via steam before I did this. Would be great if the help center had a game setup page with this info, would have saved me a lot of time.

tyleringo

I'd like to mention that pretty much any and all games that are known to work on Linux also work on Solus (if LSI is off). I have a massive Steam library and I play various games over time randomly, from my experience I think Solus is a reliable way to ride with the metas of Linux gaming.
I've never advertised myself or looked for an audience but I've also been uploading all my Linux gameplay footage recorded from Solus to Youtube since like July now, a good 47 videos. All on Solus. It's a super fun hobby. And in its current state anything that works on other distros also work on Solus.
I'll try to start taking the time to post Solus specific "reports" of games here that weren't mentioned. My ProtonDB has over 130 reports but you there aren't many Solus users there it seems. When I get a new game I'll come post how it works here too. All I need now is PUBG, Hell Let Loose and Hunt Showdown (EAC linux borked) then I won't have anything to miss from gaming on Windows 😃

As it stands now, besides disabling LSI, there isn't a single "game fix" for Solus that I'm aware of that you don't also have to do on other distros. But I'll go ahead and list the ones that I personally know work on Solus and/or I play regularly. This isn't even half of my library just the ones I know work.

AVA
Ark Survival Evolved
America's Army Proving Grounds
Among Us
Apex Legends (stuttery for the first few matches if you don't use the DXVK shader file but that's all distros)
Arma 2/3 (haven't tried mods)
Battalion 1944
Ballistic Overkill
Bastion
Battlefield 4/5/1/Bad Company 2 (2042 is borked on Linux, BC2 has Punkbuster wonkiness but usually works)
Black Mesa (Native performs badly for me, Proton is good)
Brawlhalla
CRSED (breaks often despite being native but currently works)
COD Black Ops 2 / MW2 / World at War
Celeste
Chivalry Medieval Warfare
CSGO
Creative Destruction
Dark Souls 1/2/3 (2 or 3 didn't carry saves over for me, I had to get them from Steam cloud for some reason)
DOOM / DOOM Eternal
Dandara
Day of Defeat Source
Day of Infamy (Proton > native)
Dota 2 (known to perform terribly on Linux, broken Vulkan)
Elden Ring
Fistful of Frags
GMOD
GTAIV / V (LSI breaks installation of IV)
Halo Infinite / Halo Reach MCU
Hired Ops
Hollow Knight (Native doesn't carry saves over for some reason, but Proton does)
Hue
Insurgency 2014 (requires rename tweak)
Insurgency Sandstorm
Isonzo
Knockout City
Medal of Honor 2010
Metro 2033
Mixcraft Studio (haven't checked this in years, and I wasn't using pipewire at the time so idk, replaced it with Bitwig)
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
Muck
Multiversus
Natural Selection 2
Nexuiz (bots)
Ori and the blind forrest / will of the wisps
Payday 2
Pine
Pirates Vikings and Knights
Planetside 2
Quake Live
Quake Champions
Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm 1 (shows annoying prompts every launch but works)
Resident Evil (last I played Protonfix was required, not sure about now)
Resident Evil Village
Retail Royale
Rocket League
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Shatterline
Saints Row 2 / 3
Sonic Adventure 2
Splitgate
Squad
Street Fighter V
Super Animal Royale
TF2
Cycle: Frontier
Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
Lord of the Rings Online
Witcher 1 / 3
Unturned
Verdun / Tannenburg
Void Bastards
Warframe
Yoku's Island Express
Yooka Laylee

528491

tyleringo Planetside

My performance became terrible compared to windows, I just can't tell since when exactly. Maybe the 10 years graphics update? Maybe Kernel 6.0? Did you experience something similar? Do you play it via Steam?

tyleringo

528491
(I have an RX580) I've played it on Arch and Solus and I believe they performed identically for me..In fact I have a recording of Planetside 2 last month from when we were still on 5.15.68, you can find it by searching. It ran about 50-80fps depending on the scenario. I haven't played Planetside on Windows in many many many years but I remember it being quite intensive even there with all the action and amount of players in one area, but Linux/Proton still handled it well last I played.
How did it perform badly, do you know if it's a low framerate thing or a stuttering/rendering thing?
I'll go ahead and install it real quick to see how it's running since the kernel updates.

528491

tyleringo
Thanks for testing it!
It worked very well on Solus (on par with windows) until lately. PlanetSide is very CPU demanding, so with my old i7-4770k I ran into fps drops in larger battles (down to the 40s from my 60 cap). Upgraded my CPU to i5-12400f a few days ago. On Windows, there are no fps drops any more now, no matter how huge and crowded the fights are. But on solus my new cpu is pushed to its limits very fast and the fps are dropping even in smaller fights and way lower (20-30). This happens only in PlanetSide as far as I can tell.

I guess the cause is some update of the game itself because even on windows, I have to cap fps to my monitors refresh-rate because else the game stutters at any frame rate.

tyleringo

I was reminded while trying Planetside 2 again that you need to have --disable_gpu in launch options or the launcher appears all white
It also performs great, main hub reaching 150fps at medium settings
But then, about 40 seconds into the game it would crash and link me to this error page
Happens with any Proton version from 6.3.8 to the newest
Hmm. I'll try and figure this one out

528491

tyleringo But then, about 40 seconds into the game it would crash and link me to this error page

Interesting. This never happened to me.
Tried Proton 6 and experimental, FSYNC off and on

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