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triple monitor setup with a verticle monitor launches the game in 1080x1920
Your mileage may vary, depending what you play the game for, but gamers with > 3000 hour players/competitive players best stay away for now.
-fullscreen -w 1280 -h 960
Booting the game in fullscreen can sometimes turn off a secondary monitor
Mouse inputs will be very inaccurate and hard to control unless you match your desktop resolution to your game resolution. (ie if you want to play in 1280x960, you would have to set your primary monitor resolution to 1280x960)
Game performs with input lag, an insignificant amount for a casual player but a completely unviable amount for anyone who takes the game seriously. (maybe 5-10 ms) The game will start at about 300 fps and gradually drop lower and lower until about 20 minutes when the average dips below 100 fps on a system that is more than enough to run CS2 on low settings.
Crashes when changing video settings such as FSR
I'd consider the game to be in an unplayable state as of now, but it's still leagues better than it was at launch, and I can see the game being fully playable within the next year.
Should be fixed within this week as it's a new release, but completely unplayable at the current moment.
Game is unplayable in its current state. Most counter strike players play on non native resolutions and it's completely broken now.
-windowed -novid -sdlaudiodriver pipewire
Audio will not work until you put -sdlaudiodriver pipewire in your launch options.
Windowing sometimes crashed CS2. stretched doesn't scale properly and sometimes will just revert to native.
1280x960 messed up mouse sensitivity to the point I could not get a single kill in deathmatch.
All versions of proton crash on startup. Game will start to a blackscreen now, and I can't even see the menu anymore.
It's a new game that they didn't beta test on Linux so I'm willing to give them some leeway for now. Hope Valve do something fast.
Stability issues aside, the game is tolerable for a sub 1000 hour casual player but completely unplayable for any CS veteran player.
-fullscreen -w 1280 -h 960
Audio sync problem that gets worse as time goes on. after about an hour there is a roughly 5 second delay from when you shoot your gun and when you hear the gunshot sound. You can temporarily fix/reset it by going into the audio settings and setting the audio device to something else and then back to your default device.
Game must be started in fullscreen to work. Game will launch to a black screen if launched in native resolution. Fullscreen windowed works, but must be applied after the game launches in the video settings menu or else the game won't display anything. Windowed mode currently completely freezes the display and requires you to restart the game completely.
When playing in a non native aspect ratio or resolution such as 1280x960, the most popular resolution among pros, The mouse controls unpredictably. For horizontal aiming, slow movements and microadjustments barely register while fast movements and flicks feel about 20% too fast. For vertical aiming, all movements just feel way too slow and unresponsive as a whole. If this was any other game this would be a minor issue, but because this is Counter Strike, a very competitive game where almost nobody at the higher levels play native resolution, this is without a doubt the most pressing issue in the game right now.
Slightly worse performance than Windows but this is to be expected as Windows uses DX11 and Linux uses Vulkan
The game will occasionally turn off my secondary monitor. when trying to use xrander to enable my secondary monitor, my primary monitor will switch to 1280x960. Secondary monitor issues withstanding, the game always works fine apon first booting the game but will crash my entire PC apon a second boot. Not even exiting Steam is enough to circumvent this, the entire PC must be rebooted. This wasn't a couple days ago so I believe it was recent patch that did this.
All versions of Proton including GE are completely borked.
Some issues with hitreg currently, but this problem is not exclusive to linux and should be fixed soon.
A lot of the reports I've read are from people who clearly don't play much CS and are just looking at how well the game runs at native resolution in a controlled environment. For anyone with over a couple thousand hours in CS, the minor things like audio desync and the uncontrollable sensitivity on non native resolutions become absolute dealbreakers in a game where every little minor details matters. I can't reccomend playing any competitive matches while the game is in its current state, and I hope I can update this to something more positive in the coming months.
Game works fine out of the box now, provided you dont turn on ray tracing
Turning on ray tracing will crash the game and make it unbootable until you delete the UserSettings.json file in your proton c drive
Some mods work fine and some seemingly don't. Not sure if this is a Linux problem or a new patch problem.
Controller rumble at high velocities isn't working, but the game works flawlessly otherwise.
Controller haptic feedback not working
Crashes every 40 minutes or so on Proton 7.0-4. Fewer crashes on Proton 6.3-8, and crashing eventually stopped.
Beat the entire game on the Steam Deck. Zero problems from start to finish. Best Experience with the Steam Deck so far.
Played the entire game on the Steam Deck. Zero problems from start to finish. Best Experience with the Steam Deck so far.
The only bug I encountered with this game was outside of the game. After exiting the game, all the Steam menus would disappear in gaming mode until the Steam Deck was fully rebooted.
Absolutely no tinkering required outside of the in-game settings menu. Ran at around 80-90 FPS the whole time occasionally dipping into low 70s on the normal preset. if your target is 60 FPS, then you could definitely bump the preset up to High or even Very High.
Played with a keyboard and mouse plugged in, so I can't comment on the controller layout. It also drains the battery quite fast.
Runs perfectly, never dropping below 60 FPS on default settings. Significantly worse performace on GE-Proton7-43, constantly dipping to 30 or even 20 FPS.
Game launches in an unplayable resolution on native. Switching to proton fixed this issue.
Game ran at a consistant 90 FPS max settings on the Steam Deck OLED, rarely dropping down to low 80s. Battery life was totally fine.
The default controls leave a lot to be desired, but I beat the entire game on Steam Deck without any notable Linux related issues. Can definitely reccomend.
Tried native plus various versions of proton including 6, 7 ,8, 9, experermental and GE.
Game is near unplayable using the same graphics settings that net 90 fps on windows
Friend could not join the world no matter what we tried
Works perfectly fine now with Vulkan. 160 FPS in empty areas on Ultra settings and around 70 FPS on low settings near the megafactory.
This game has come a long way in terms of compatibility since I tried it a year ago. Game plays great now.
64-bit fixed nearly every major issue with TF2 on Linux. Had to reinstall the game to get it to boot, but it works magically now.
-windowed
cursor position does not scale correctly while in fullscreen on a non native resolution.
What previously felt like a port held together with shoestring and chewing gum now feels like a modern title. FPS gains of 20-30% across the board, and fixed all the missing libs and incorrect mouse sensitivities. My launch options went from being longer than the length of this report to just "-windowed". This update has done so much for the Linux port of TF2, they could probably never update this game again and I would be perfectly happy with it as it is now.
Game works fine as of now as long as you force experermental or GE. First person mod is broken for everyone inc Windows users.
Fullscreen can crash the game.
Game has crashed and and lose hours of progress once or twice across 70 hours.
Coop online works fine as long as you and your coop partner on windows replace the anticheat files that you need to replace to install the first person mod anyway.
Wildlands is a Ubisoft game, so it will go through 3 months where it works and 3 months where it's broken. Uplay is trash as always and as of now, the first person mod is completely borked by a recent update that fixed Wildlands on Linux.
First person plus DoF Blur Removal mods working perfectly fine. Game runs 90-100 FPS on high settings.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b"
Tabbing to another window in fullscreen mode would turn the game window completely black until the game was restarted
Upon first launch, Game will not boot until Ubisoft Connect is installed. This can be easily achived by renaming the UbisoftConnectInstaller.exe to GRB.exe, running the game, installing Ubisoft Connect, and then reverifying integrity of gamefiles.
The First Person DoF Blur Removal mod will stop the game from booting up. I used the ReShade version instead. Same Nexus modpage, just an older version for the reshade files.
The first person mod can be installed by using Steam Tinker Launcher to run CheatEngine alongside Breakpoint. As far as I know, settings don't save on restarts, but it doesn't take more than ten seconds to set up every time.
The Dof Blur removal is normally broken but can be achived through reshade. I used this method to install reshade (https://github.com/kevinlekiller/reshade-steam-proton) and grabbed the reshade files from the old files on the modpage. (https://www.nexusmods.com/ghostreconbreakpoint/mods/550?tab=files)
Multiplayer crossplay between Windows worked with no issues and no hoops to jump through unlike Wildlands.
Running these mods means that you have to run the game through DX11 instead of Vulkan which cost me about 10-15 fps of performance.
-game Unofficial_Patch -windowed
Unofficial patch
Freezes if launched in fullscreen.
Dips below 100 fps in intensive areas given the age of the game and my hardware. Not sure if this is exclusive to Linux as I don't dual boot on this machine.
I used this guide to install the unofficial patch. Worked like a charm. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909531565
Give this game a try if you havn't, it's undoubtably a top 5 RPG ever made among the ranks of Deus Ex and FNV.