DeepFried
Published
I've played the game previously on Windows, and there was no discernable difference playing it on Linux with proton GE.
WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 gamemoderun %command% -window-mode exclusive
eval $( echo "%command%" | sed "s/Launcher\/LariLauncher.exe'.*/bin\/bg3_dx11.exe'/" )
When I started playing this game there were significant issues with the Launcher, i'm using a launch command string to bypass the launcher and run the dx11 version of the game. This may not be necessary at this point, or some of the simpler measures others have listed may work fine, however this still works very soildly for me, so i've kept using this method.
gamemoderun %command%
The game stutters when played in fullscreen (might be related to my multimonitor setup) but runs smoothly when running in fullscreen windowed.
Note: online play is disabled on PC in general at the moment, not a Linux issue.
The stuttering and freezes break the fluidity of the gameplay, its far from the intended gameplay experience.
WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% +com_showLoadingScreen 0 +r_skipDOF 1
There are significant frame hitches, sometimes its just momentary freezes that aren't too often, other times its near constant stuttering frames. It seems to work best on the level that you load into, but once you move into a new area the stuttering gets bad. I could specualate that its an issue with asset caching or similar.
Tried proton 6.3-8, 7.0, 7.3 GE, and steamplay. 6.3-8 seems best of the lot but still unplayable in my opinion. Game wouldn't even launch without the litany of launch commands people recommend.
There are some stuttering issues at the start, possibly shader cache related, the game crashed on me one in a full playthough to very stable
The game stutters at first, setting steam to pre-cache shaders may fix this, either way its gone after the first couple of missions.
The game has some issues from the initial install, for me it wouldn't launch at first, then when I got it working with launch options it would stutter heavily. However, after some time and turning on shader pre-chaching, the game seems to run almost flawlessly without any launch options.... don't really know how to explain that.
MANGOHUD=1 DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 gamemoderun %command%
The game seems unoptimised, I don't think this is a Linux only issue. Frame rates lower than expected, some frame rate dips.
I haven't played this much on windows, and not with modern hardware, I doubt the experience is much different between windows and Linux. Note I use proton GE by default, it wasn't really a 'tinker' step, can't comment on reguar proton.
I use Proton GE by default, so I can't comment on regular Proton.
eval $( echo "%command%" | sed 's/dowser.exe/stellaris.exe/g') -dx9
Game needs to be run in dx9 or some textures are missing
I've had some issues with the paradox launcher, initialy it seemed to run fine but then it just stopped working. I've bypassed the launcher in the in the launch options and the game seems to run fine like that.
Running stranded deep with proton worked better than native for me, native was giving me a flickering shadow bug.
I completed the game using Proton, and the experience was identical to playing on windows.
gamemoderun %command%
It works perfectly with proton. no issues encountered.
the linux native version had problems with audio on manjaro, the game didn't output any audio, the pulse sink is idle. this was solved with proton.
doesn't work with proton 6 for me, tries to run directx install script then doesn't launch.
The Native version isn't stable, it crashes pretty frequently. With proton GE it has been very stable though not 100%.
DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 gamemoderun %command%
I feel like turning off overlays (steam overlay, mangohud, discord etc) improved stablity. Might be some issues with the compositor.
MANGOHUD=1 DXVK_FRAME_RATE=144 gamemoderun %command%
Started up and ran fine, no issues with cinematics as some others report. Was able to play for a few hours with no problem. Game crashed when exiting to main menu.
MANGOHUD=1 DXVK_FRAME_RATE=120 gamemoderun %command%
Frame rates lower than expected given the age of the game. Still very playable.
Pretty much works as on windows.
needed to install media Foundation, the script on github doesn't work as the download link in the script is broken, but you can download the file manually and then amend the script to point to the local file.
Despite installing Media Foundation, some in-game videos didn't work properly. I was able to complete the game but I but i wouldn't say its playing as intended.
