Vamist
Published
Had to restart steam for it to run. Other then that it works fine
Game performance drops heavily during some none combat area's, unsure if it's due to proton, unity or because its a demo.
Shader failing to compile is an issue with game maker & proton. Game works great otherwise.
You need to install d3dcompiler_43, otherwise shader compile fails.
If you are into dark souls, you'll enjoy this. If you never played dark souls but it looks interesting, its a good first one to play.
VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv DXVK_ASYNC=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/\$LIB/libgamemode.so.0" gamemoderun mangohud %command%
If you have fps issues, you will find that enemies decide to become invisible.
Fixed it by going into the games steam properties, controller and selecting 'Disable Steam Input'
Had extremely low fps when looking at the open world, causing cpu usage to sky rocket to 100, and gpu to sit at 0.
If you have this issue, add this command to your launch options
VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv
This fixed it for me, and now the game is a solid 60fps aside from the odd stutter and crash.
(semi related issue on github)
The game tends to crash or freeze out the blue. This is 'normal' for this game, and happens as often as it does in windows.
Aside from the odd connecting issue (same as on windows), it works amazingly.
More general notes:
Game might fail to launch because EasyAntiCheat runtime is not installed, so go to steam, tools and install Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime, and even after that, launching it can be a hit or miss.
Shader effects in chapter 7 resulted in some graphical issues. One time it resulted in two screens appearing, DS style. It will re-occur every so often until the chapter is over.
At the same point, it once managed to open MangoHud. It could not get turned off, even after closing or trying a different game. A hard OS restart fixed this. (I don't believe there is a hotkey to turn MangoHud on, so I don't fully know / how this could have happened?)
Play it
Works like a charm (steam proton has issues loading the background in the main menu, GE fixes that).
Proton 6.5-GE
gamemoderun mangohud %command%
If you have a black screen when launching, you have one of two (assuming its not gpu/hardware related) issues:
You tried to launch the game fullscreen
If you launched the game in fullscreen, head on over to:
[YOUR_DISK]/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/553850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Arrowhead/Helldivers2/user_settings.config
Once there, change the following:
fullscreen = falseborderless_fullscreen = true.
Once you are in game, you can toggle fullscreen on (otherwise you will have a white border around the game), just remember to turn it back to borderless when you are done playing (or if you crash/forget, just repeat the steps above).
Servers are down/having issues
If you have tried the method above, and have ruled out any gpu/system issues, then try playing later. This issue also happens on windows.
6.5-GE-2 GloriousEggroll
6.5-GE-2
A game cutscene will randomly go black. I had to press ESC a few times to end it once the cutscene audio stopped.
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
Did not even notice it was using proton at first, felt like a linux native
EAC is now used, proton support is not enabled currently.
Can not run this game anymore due to the developer not enabling EAC + proton support.
Game functions on par with windows, changing the options.ini `CreateTexturesOnDemand=1` and `SleepMargin=0` can help with performance
You need to install d3dcompiler_43, otherwise shader compile fails.
