Lernaeus
Published
gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 gamemoderun %command%
The game itself runs fine, but origin launcher doesn't like me using a tiling window manager (BSPWM) and will lag. Origin launches like 7 sub-windows under the same name and a WM is not really able to cope with that
I mostly used this guide: https://gist.github.com/Decclo/da097b504ccbc61514926ae2d96350ef Game itself runs really well after following that guide, but getting to the point of running the game can be quite the challenge.
I also had to use gamescope so that Origin won't slow down while booting up the game, otherwise it will hang on starting up the game because of my tiling WM.
Having the games running through Steam AND EGS really hurts the overall ability to play this game out of the box or with just minor tweaks
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
After trying to run Fall Guys through both my old Steam copy and Epic Games Store with Lutris, only running through Heroic Games Launcher works for me.
I basically followed this guide: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/FallGuys
It is really well written, but overall, getting Fall Guys to work on Linux is somewhat of a pain, mainly due to the stuborness of Epic Games giving Linux user some kind of service to run their launcher directly or allowing easy compatibility with Steam (as Fall Guys is not the only game has to or can connect to Epic Games Services) rather than of Steam's fault
Basically locked 60 FPS on medium settings and no vsync. Game plays like a charm without any modifications on the OLED Deck
The game works surprisingly well, with no tampering whatsoever. I'm sure some tricks can be done to get better performance.
Some more-than-expected slowdowns when a lot of effects are happening or in some zones
I was getting high 60-70 FPS in some cluttered zones and triple digit framerates in lower density/boss zones on 1440p, mixture of high and medium settings and FSR Q. Sadly, the FSR implementation is pretty bad (it's probably FSR 1, sad). I personally was getting pretty bad ghosting from it, but it is still not that noticeable in the middle of the action.
gamemoderun %command%
4-man co-op worked flawlessly out of the box; both joining via lobby code in clipboard and via steam invites worked without any apparent problems.
You probably won't even realize you are not running this game natively. Only in lategame stages (3rd loop onward, stage 10+) you might encounter slowdowns, but that usually happens on natively supported platforms as well due to how many things happen on the screen at once.
PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
Multiplayer seemes pretty stable with no visible slowdonws. Played some battleground matches and everything was pretty much as expected.
The launcher itself won't launch without the included launch options, mainly due to WINE gimmicks and the launcher not detecting your storage for some odd reason. The game itself runs as expected, i'd dare say even 1:1 with Windows performance. Furthermore, addons work really well, but getting Minion to work on itself somewhat complicated.
For AMD (idk if Nvidia supports this) GPU users: FSR worked in game out of the box
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
Enabled xact and xact_x64 to fix mute NPCs in some modlist instances (such as Septimus3)
Mute NPCs with some modlists, need to enable xact and xact_x64 using protontricks. This is not the case for the vanilla game though
Skyrim Vanilla with or without the creation club content works pretty much out of the box. It is when you attempt to mod the game using anything else than the in-game mod organizer (which is pretty decent now to be honest, even though it's clearly made for consoles) that things can get complicated at first glance.
Your options of running mods installed by yourself or running modlists provided by Wabbajack are the following:
- For running your own modlists: install steamtinkerlaunch and use one of the options in there to launch MO2 or Vortex instead of Skyrim.
- For running Wabbajack modlists: this Github Gist explains how to do it relatively painlessly: https://github.com/Omni-guides/Skyrim-Wabbajack_Modlist-Linux/blob/main/README.md#general-linux-instructions
