Canoly
Published
Haven't played too much but from what I did it worked fine.
My only issue is my hardware. Poor old thing can't run this game. The performance on windows was only slightly better.
Played through the whole thing no problem.
Switching workspaces didn't always work smoothly.
I had some issues with creating and linking my steam account though. When linking the account (in the browser) it asks to go to the launcher, which didn't work (nothing happened after clicking the link). When I loaded the launcher up a little while after that I was logged in.
Flatout was bought from GOG and installed/played using Heroic Games Launcher selecting the windows version.
Had to map the controllers manually, in the games menu.
I had to use my ~/.wine prefix (any stock wine prefix would have probably worked) inplace of protons default one to get around an instant crash to desktop issue.
The only minor issue I've had is it being slow on initial load (HDD, ~3-5mins).
Had some performance issues later on in the game but could be due to my PC being antcient.
I'm not sure if it has something to do with my setup but I had trouble joining matches. Matchmaking would work most of the time but I was only ever able to join a game via the server browser once. Every other time I would click join (or double click/push enter) and absolutely nothing would happen.
Takes me about 5 minutes to get into the menu (HDD).
After an error during first install (uplay), running it again worked flawlessly.
An error popped up running it for the first time, I think it was something to do with uplay. Running the game again worked fine though.
The only way it could better if it didn't requre uplay.
Rarely, audio will cut out for a few seconds. Doesn't happen in other games but it could just be my setup (pipewire).
The game seems to use a lot more RAM than on windows and the more I play (especially some workshop maps) the more it balloons, almost seems like a memory leak. It regularly uses swap on my machine (8GB of RAM, 4GB of swap) but it has yet to go completely oom.
No issues playing mulitplayer (that I haven't also had on windows)
I get slightly less fps than on windows and maybe a tad bit more input lag.
Anyone with a relatively modern computer should be able to just boot the game up and play.
This is marked as tinkered only because I use Proton Experimental which doesn't really do how well this game runs justice.
Had no real issues, didn't try multiplayer though.
Just like windows. I didn't run into any issues and I got 100% of the achivements (mostly on linux).
The only thing I can think to mention is that the game didn't exit smoothly.
