Quoting: brokeassbenI just did a big upgrade of my computer and decided to try out a bunch of the flashy AAA games in Proton. I'm having frequent complete system freezes that require a hard reset and nothing I've tried so far is helping. Different drives, entirely different distros, updated the BIOS, tested RAM, and still freezing. Sooo damn frustrating.

Check your PSU, maybe it is underpowered when the GPU and the CPU are working at 100%, which is the case for AAA titles

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Quoting: axredneck

Quoting: ziabice... "gstreamer-bad" and "gstreamer-ugly" plugins from sources (AUR) ...

They are in official Arch repositories.

Sure for 64 bit, but if you need the 32 bit versions you have to install them from AUR

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Also to address the elephant in the room, this weekend's Wine Staging 5.15 release comes in with Media Foundation Platform (mfplat) support. For those new to it, this component adds FMV support to many games in Wine, particularly games using Unreal Engine and Unity.

Tested a few games:

Shadow Warrior 2 (custom engine) - Still no FMV's (terminal also throws errors pointing to gstreamer).
Outward (Unity) - FMVs working.
Shadows Awakening (Unity) - FMVs working.

Also tried Darksiders 1 and 3 however both are not running with 5.15 for some unknown reason.

For what you know, does this add the burden to install the "gstreamer-bad" and "gstreamer-ugly" plugins from sources (AUR) or some obscure PPA?

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Playing the addictive Sky Force Reloaded

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There's also this juicy news here about Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4093.

A user asked to implement deduplication of Proton prefixes and the reply is:

QuoteWe are working on this. Should be in an upcoming major release. Stay tuned.

Currently the implementation uses symlinks, so it should work on all filesystems which support symlinks.

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A game with a great demo, which is very rare nowadays, hope it sells well.

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Seems that there's important progress on EAC support too: https://twitter.com/Guy15241/status/1280242391753129985

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Proud to be a supporter!

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A little follow up to my previous comment.

To run a non Steam game is easy: in Steam, go to Games menu > Add a non-Steam game to my library, select the .exe, and force the use of Proton, and it's done. You have to put "--proton" in game "launch options". There's a bug with path containing spaces, so check whats written into the various input controls and correct by hand.

So here what's happened.

I have a Gog Galaxy wineprefix in which I run the client and the games using Wine-staging (version 5.9 as of writing) and the latest DXVK from AUR (I'm on Manjaro).

I tested the same graphics settings: 1080p, Fullscreen, medium details, VSync disabled, in-game FPS counter.

Tested the initial scene of the game

Wine-staging+DXVK: 21-35fps, with stuttering
Steam + Proton from same gog-galaxy prefix: 21-35fps, with stuttering
Steam + Proton from proton prefix: 70fps buttersmooth

Conclusion: Steam+Proton = double the pleasure :)

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Side note: there's a Kingdome Come: Deliverance free weekend going on and the game now finally is playable with Proton. It went from 20 fps to rock solid 60 on my machine, so it's definitely time to enjoy this messy bug festRPG!

It's a pity I already own this game on Gog, if I recall correctly there's a way to run external games with Proton, any advice?

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