Wanna say firstly how amazing people are in this forum, with everyone’s help my last issue with my drives now looks easy to fix since I know howto now.
I tried following @keybreak guide Linux gaming [Guide]
but as a new user I found some of it confusing, more so since I want my games on my SSD and not installed on main boot drive and I am never touching steam.
My install is the Nvidia (non-free) version and all I have installed is the latest version of wine and Lutris (bare-bones just to test)
To my understanding (correct me if wrong) but Lutris creates its own wineprefix for every game it installs so i just changed preferences to go to my SSD. Tried installing a few GOG games with Lutris and this is my result.
Crysis - start up movie before menu stuttering at 2-3fps, took 4 mins to see the Nvidia logo The Witcher Enhanced Edition - Runs perfect but no sound, wineconf showed no audio driver Amnesia The Dark Decent - Stutters like Crysis Assassins Creed - would not launch saying audio is being used by something else Alan Wake - nothing happened
Same games but installed on there own to my SSD no Lutris
Crysis 64x exe doesn’t work but normal .exe launches and game runs fine The Witcher Enhanced Edition - No problems runs perfectly Amnesia The Dark Decent - No problems runs perfectly Assassins Creed - launched and played the opening cinematic but black screen on menu (but you can hear it)
*Alan Wake intro played but crashed with 3D3 error ran out of memory
Well, now you seem to know why i recommended to install games on your own, and not follow just some scripts from Lutris installers (which ain’t bad most of times, but still not perfect)
I’d recommend to use Lutris only as a launcher, but install games on your own.
It’s not Wine’s fault, it was always the case.
Make sure it’s patched to latest patch (if it’s GOG it should be already), or use unofficial c1-launcher, which removes all drm garbage and resolves some of compatibility bugs.
Launch game from:
Bin64/Crysis.exe
Add commandline arguments:
-dx10 -devmode
Try with other wine engine, for example Glorious-Eggroll or TKG, there are links in guide
Must enable “PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“xaudio2_7=b,n” %command%” in launch options, or game will not load
And yes, i know that guide is too much, that because i was rushed by community at the time, and haven’t finished some important tool to make it easier…Some day when i’ll have more time i’ll make it way more accessible, so sorry that for now it’s a bit too much for newcomers
P.S. Oh and absolutely make sure you have dxvk enabled in Lutris or wherever you launch your games, it’s crucial for performance.
@keybreak I was about to reply saying the game crashes shortly after loading the game, adding those files from winetricks fixed it, games plays as it should… but now I have an FPS counter in the top right corner among other things…not sure how they came up
So how are people meant to know what things to add from winetricks for games ? Lutris forums is basically dead.
Will now try out the other games and give and update ^^ Oh also is it possible to install proton from the AUR without installing Steam ? Really don’t want to install steam if I can get away with it since I don’t have an account after i lost the last one.
Just download the binary and make a wine-prefix with it. Read @keybreak’s guide carefully (skip nothing), it tells you how to do everything (and gives you scripts). Sure, it’s going to take you 20-30 minutes to go through it, but then you’ll be set.
Yes, you have to look carefully through the various reports and even then “trust nothing”…
(Having said this, even ProtonDB has a big mix of approaches, most of them some “cargo cult” thing of copy-pasting a combination of things that at some point will work rather than understanding the narrow specifics of what’s actually needed. Yes, I spent days tweaking a prefix for Assetto Corsa… )
Again, forgot…
It’s caused by -devmode which is just a side effect (but devmode enables you to some advanced graphics settings and stuff like that - so it’s better to use it!)
You must create a file called System.cfg right inside your Crysis directory with those vars:
con_restricted=0
r_DisplayInfo=0
Crysis have a very advanced system, you can absolutely CRANK your game quality with some of those console settings…but that’s not the question here so
I think that should be pretty much it…Other than that you should just set your settings in game and enjoy
Here’s my usual config, you can try it (just change resolution with r_Width / r_Height to your native), but you must have a very powerful system
But really once you get the algorithm of how to use wine, it mostly comes down to find / figure out right winetricks or game config
Crysis is a great example, that’s why i’ve used it in guide - because it’s a great game which need to have just few tweaks (most of which are game itself though, even on Windoz, for example that x64 exe problem)
There are some questionable decisions that Bloattles devs took, especially regarding their repository. It seems their software can only be used with the wine engines that they approve and keep in their repository. I can’t just download a TKG binary of proton and make a “bottle” with it (which is a pity, because Tk-Glitch has an excellent sense of aesthetics: https://github.com/Tk-Glitch – really stylish!)
Your config seams to work well ^^ my 2080TI didn’t seam to have much of an issue ^^
Also reading your guide I have created your .sh scrips (going to give it a go your best I can)
I think I understand how to do this so far
But can I ignore the parts about steam since I don’t use it ? or can’t I use proton without it :S
…Can’t imagine the problems mmo games are going to cause me and GOG galaxy as you need it to play No mans sky online
) it’s mostly very outdated.
)
Yep, I went there… 
