Chaosian
Published
Switched to experimental, just to be careful.
Played around with several different versions of Proton, just to see.
No audio whatsoever.
Sad, I was looking forward to trying more of this. Fingers crossed for a patch.
Fully Functional
After the Dec 20th 2023 patch, that fixed the audio issues, the game is 100% fully functional with Proton.
Required compatability mode to boot, used Proton Experimental. Alt-Enter to go fullscreen. Options screen fully functional, which was good because the default resolution was quite low.
Very promising!
Fully functional out of the box.
No Anticheat issues whatsoever. Included play time in Big Team Battle and Firefight. I suspect Campaign would also be fully functional.
Fully functional, excellent co-op experience.
Occasional crashes on some loading screens - happened about 4 times across a 15 hour playthrough with a buddy. Would have to replay certain segments because of it.
Underrated game, and an excellent co-op experience. Fully functional in Proton.
No official support. Missing required .NET 4.8 support in Wine seems to mean it's a bust.
Steam, Launch Options: -perf.notemplatevirt -crypto.mng -tut.path "C:\Program Files"
Various DLLs installed in Winetricks including the existing .Net implementations.
Copied from my inital investigation in the comments of:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1671014486
Looked into this and with some help from Aritcy Staff [...] It seems that this [Articy under Linux] was, at one point, fully functional. Updates to Articy however have basically bricked a Linux installation however, and there just isn't enough support to catch up.
If anyone reading this wants to try and give it a shot, here's what I did:
STEP 1, in the compatibility properties for the game, make sure you're running Proton 8 (or above). This should be enough to let you open Articy. If it's not, you'll need .NET updates for your version of Wine [...]. This is only a first step as, unfortunately, Articy will die immediately after you close the notifications window. This is because Tutorials appear, and the .NET framework does not support their usage.
STEP 2, add the following as launch options for the game on the general tab: perf.notemplatevirt -crypto.mng -tut.path "C:\Program Files" [These are] performance optimizations [...], as well as a bit of a cheat to turn off tutorials. This should let you get so far as opening a project with Articy, but again, not much further. Most of the buttons won't be functional (or will just be outright hidden) and trying to go into the flow editor will kill the program. You can confirm a working project though by looking at its variables.
STEP 3, finally, to address the actual problem, you'll need more up-to-date .NET support for Proton. Install Winetricks if you don't have it already, and use it to get .NET 4.8. With this, you can access the Flow editor and even find entities in your projects. However, interaction with the UI in Articy will be really spotty and creating a node on the Flow editor will kill the project. As you might have noticed during the installation, .NET 4.8 support is still work in progress, and I suspect this to be the final nail in the coffin for Articy on Linux right now.
The good news at least, is that this probably won't be the case forever. One day .NET conversion will be complete, and Articy will probably run again on Linux.
