I figured out a workaround and made cyberpunk 2077 great again.
Below is my brief overview of my adventure in refusing to use windows to play this game.
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Game was bought on Gog
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Gog does not have a native Linux game launcher
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Downloaded Heroic Game Launcher to play windows games on Linux
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Downloaded Cyberpunk 2077 through Heroic
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Game worked out of the gate on the first try, hurray!!!
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Closed game and shut down PC
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Turn on PC at a later point and started up the game
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Game would load up as normal but after around 5 seconds into the intro screens it would freeze and crash
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Tried a different version of proton and the game loaded fine again. hurray!!!
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Closed game and shut down PC
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Turn on PC at a later point and started up the game
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Game would load up as normal but after around 5 seconds into the intro screens it would freeze and crash
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Repeat until I ran out of proton versions.
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Attempted to uninstall and reinstall, but it did not resolve issue.
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Attempted to link the heroic exe to steam as a non-steam game and launch it.
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Worked only the first time just like before.
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Attempted to put —launcher-skip --intro-skip into the Launch options in steam to bypass the intro screens, but it did not work.
-----Successful Workaround-----
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Donkey Kick the keyboard
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Go into the directory that you installed Cyberpunk for me it was
* Heroic > Cyberpunk 2077 > archive > pc -
Created a folder called mod
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Go to a place to download mods for the game
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Download " No Intro Videos " mod
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place the basegame_no_intro_videos.archive in the mod folder.
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Launch game and have fun.
