Gamma Lyrae
Published
The linux native version is out of date. Force a proton build of your choice and play the windows version instead.
-tcp
Out of the box, when hosting a multiplayer session (even over LAN), the connected players would stutter around on my screen. They'd also complain of inconsistencies with interacting with objects and would occasionally stutter step around on their own client. Not a performance / fps related issue, it all has to do with the networking aspects of the game.
Setting -tcp as a launch argument switches the game from using UDP to TCP, which significantly improved playability for players connecting to me. Depending on your networking conditions, this may or may not be required. Played through the game from beginning to end on normal and didn't encounter any linux specific issues. Please be advised that the linux native version is out of date and cannot crossplay with windows users. Force proton as a compatibility tool to grab the windows version, it has the final patch for the game and lets you play online with other windows/linux via proton users.
Game wouldn't launch when installed to an EXT4 formatted mechanical hard drive. When I moved it to a BTRFS formatted NVME, it launched fine.
Aside from the weird issue of not booting from an EXT4 file system, worked fine.
Some of the tutorial videos do not play correctly (These are the small clips that play when a new screen has popped up to explain what a button does or how a feature works). An immediate one you'll come across is the "wall jump" tutorial video.
Minimal impact on gameplay. Most of them do play correctly.
When launching as configured by steam, there is no audio in the opening cut scene. I also attempted Proton GE 9-11, still no sound. Switching to regular proton 8-05 restored audio to the intro cutscene and seems to be the best fit for this game. Launch commands and recommendations to hex edit are likely deprecated and no longer required.
Needs a transcode of the videos and a plain text save edit to configure to play correctly.
/steam/userdata/xxx/631510/remote/options.sav
Change the width/height to match your resolution (Only required for resolutions higher than 1080p)
FMVs don't play correctly. Will play for a couple of seconds without sound, and then skip without any input.
https://www.nexusmods.com/devilmaycryhdcollection/mods/51?tab=description
You can download this mod, or you can manually run the provided script on your end inside the videos directory for each game.
Right click the name of the game -> Manage -> Browse local files Navigate to data. Inside each of dmc1, dmc2, and dmc3 is a videos folder. Navigate there for each game, and in a terminal and run this:
for FMV in *.wmv; do ffmpeg -i $FMV ${FMV:0:-4}.mp4; rm $FMV; mv -- ${FMV:0:-4}.mp4 $FMV; done
No "flip" was required for the videos to play in the right orientation while using GE-Proton.
Note that this does change the game files, and any time you try to verify the integrity of this game, steam will re-download the original videos. Once the transcode is complete, consider setting aside a copy of them to restore later.
The game does attempt to cap at 60fps. If yours doesn't or the frametimes are unstable, you can use mangohud to cap it to 60. My xinput controller was detected and worked fine.
(STEAM VERSION) Works well out of the box using non-gmail email login
This report is specifically for the STEAM VERSION of the game, which differs from the standalone "Windows Version" you can download from the website.
No special tinkering required. Game just boots and plays fine. My account is associated with an email address (not using the Gmail or Google login processes). Other login methods, including just being associated w/ your steam account, I did not test.
SteamDeck=1 %command%
During Season 0, the game launched with no special tinkering. After the Season 1 patch, you must now run with the argument above.
This may be subject to change as I don't think they've intentionally done anything to break compatibility. Keep an eye out on future reports, as a general rule you shouldn't launch games with arguments unless they're strictly necessary.
Works fine
No issues currently. A major patch is coming sometime in 2025 with a new DLC which could change things. Keep an eye on future reports.
Works great out of the box
Seems fine. Controller support is good. Plays exactly as you'd expect. No apparent linux/proton/wine-exclusive bugs that I can report.
Note: Did not test playing with a keyboard.
Feels like a native linux game.
Worked out of the box with no tweaks. This has remained true through a couple of game patches, too. Played for over 80 hours on a multiplayer server with no issues.
