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Title: Red Dead Redemption 2 seems to expose Vulkan renderer
sub 1 Nov 2019
To not much surprise Rockstar has a Vulkan render for the highly
acclaimed Red Dead Redemption 2 as it will come to Stadia.

This German games magazin says the pre-release version they have,
exposes a Direct3d 12 AND the Vulkan renderer.

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-vorabversion-mit-limit-bei-120-fps-directx-12-und-vulkan,3350718.html

There is hope the final version released on Nov. 5 will also expose it.

With Wine supporting Vulkan pass through, there is a good chance it will work well (at least with AMDVLK).
Unless copy protection will be a problem. :/

Edit: They also said there is no support of renderers prior to D3D 12.

Last edited by sub on 1 Nov 2019 at 4:10 pm UTC
Plintslîcho 1 Nov 2019
Interesting. I have to admit that even though I own the game for console already I'm quite inquisitive about it for PC and I do hope that it will be possible to play Red Dead Redemption 2 through Wine.

Last edited by Plintslîcho on 1 Nov 2019 at 6:12 pm UTC
jens 3 Nov 2019
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Thanks for the info @sub. This is going to be interesting, especially since CW/Valve are also working to get the Rockstar Launcher back in business on Proton/Steam Play/Wine.
sub 5 Nov 2019
Looking forward to the first compatibility reports. :)

Wine AppDB has no entry so far.
Tsimppa 5 Nov 2019
Quoting: subLooking forward to the first compatibility reports. :)

Wine AppDB has no entry so far.
Looking forward that too. Vulkan renderer seems promising for linux gaming

Maybe one should make it so people can send bug-reports. Thou prob more important after they release it on Steam
sub 5 Nov 2019
Quoting: Tsimppa
Quoting: subLooking forward to the first compatibility reports. :)

Wine AppDB has no entry so far.
Looking forward that too. Vulkan renderer seems promising for linux gaming

Maybe one should make it so people can send bug-reports. Thou prob more important after they release it on Steam
Btw, a user confirmed that the release version also exposes the Vulkan renderer! :)
sub 6 Nov 2019
Apparently there are lots of issues at release and that news magazine
advises people to change the renderer to Vulkan.

LOL
lqe5433 6 Nov 2019
maybe GTA V, will also get the Vulkan renderer?
Slackdog 7 Nov 2019
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From what I see on twitter there's a lot of windoze users struggling to get it to run at all!
wolfyrion 7 Nov 2019
Read Dead Redemption 2 runs via Proton if you bypass the Rockstar Launcher by renaming a file

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Avehicle7887 7 Nov 2019
Quoting: wolfyrionRead Dead Redemption 2 runs via Proton if you bypass the Rockstar Launcher by renaming a file

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This screenshot has been pasted all over the net recently, and yet not a single screenshot or video of the game actually running on Linux. Doesn't say much unfortunately

I've been stalking reddit, Lutris and other Linux related sites regarding this game, seems the issue is the drm and the launcher.

Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 7 Nov 2019 at 7:37 pm UTC
Rooster 8 Nov 2019
https://gtaforums.com/topic/938850-is-it-crashing-for-you/page/33/#comments

Based on this thread, it seems it is completely false. Renaming the file to gtav.exe and running it using the No_GTAVLauncher doesn't allow to play the game, just access the start menu.

I myself am waiting for the Steam version and might buy if and when the issues are fixed.
sub 9 Nov 2019
Quoting: The_Aquabatthe problem is the rockstar launcher?? on december it's suppose to launch on steam right?? fingers crossed hope it runs ok with Proton :D:D
It will still require the Rockstar launcher.
That's a safe bet.
Plintslîcho 10 Nov 2019
Quoting: subIt will still require the Rockstar launcher.
That's a safe bet.
Yeah, nowadays you need a launcher to launch a launcher [...] to launch the game. Interesting times indeed. ^^

Anyway, judging by the reactions after the release the game or the launcher or a combination of both has some major problems. Maybe Rockstar will be able to sort them out till the game gets released on Steam and the people waiting for the Steam release will have a better experience. But I'd be super careful.
slaapliedje 11 Nov 2019
Quoting: Plintslîcho
Quoting: subIt will still require the Rockstar launcher.
That's a safe bet.
Yeah, nowadays you need a launcher to launch a launcher [...] to launch the game. Interesting times indeed. ^^

Anyway, judging by the reactions after the release the game or the launcher or a combination of both has some major problems. Maybe Rockstar will be able to sort them out till the game gets released on Steam and the people waiting for the Steam release will have a better experience. But I'd be super careful.
Ha, yeah that's been the way for a while with Ubisoft games. I'm irritated that when I get an Ubisoft game through humblebundle, I forget every time that I'm going to have to install it through Uplay, instead of being able to have all my games in one place (Steam).
Bet that'll be the case with the EA Origin games being in Steam as well. It's the same damn thing happening with streaming video services too where everyone wants the slice of that pie, and now people are going back to piracy because there are just too many streaming services to catch up on everything.
sub 22 Nov 2019
Is there any progress getting RDR2 to run with Wine?
Or at least a clear idea what's "wrong"?
slaapliedje 22 Nov 2019
Quoting: subIs there any progress getting RDR2 to run with Wine?
Or at least a clear idea what's "wrong"?
I thought I had seen someone who had. Granted, I don't currently have the disk space on my Linux partition to install it to try (it's 112GB!)

I did see someone playing it with VorpX. Shame stuff like that will never work under Linux, then again VorpX's updater always gets flagged as a virus too...

Maybe if I can clear off enough space, I'll give it a try.
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