The Vulkan support in the Unreal Engine is only default on Linux since 4.21 but Tropico 6 is using 4.20. Good chances that there were some remain issues.

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I'm absolutely not surprised. Anyone remembers the crowd reaction on the announcement of a card game?

https://youtu.be/n_GcXaXsmOU?t=15 [External Link]

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Quoting: GrabbySo for Proton games, does it work on top of the DXVK state cache ? Does that mean we now have three levels of caching (pipeline, state, shader) ?

I've checked that with one game (Sniper Ghost Warrior 2), renamed the DXVK_state_cache folder and started the game with Proton. The folder was not recreated, so it seems that DXVK state cache is disabled when Vulkan Pipeline Cache is in use. Which makes totally sense, as it is obsolete in Steam Beta now.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI know there are knowledgeable people here. What the heck is "Vulkan pipeline dumping"? It sounds like either a good thing or something oil companies do when something has gone very wrong.

Vulkan pipeline dumping is like the DXVK state cache, but it works for any Vulkan application. So native and DXVK through Proton. Like the OpenGL cache in Steam it's also shared*, which means over time we won't have any stutter in any Vulkan (especially Proton+DXVK) game, due to shader compiling, anymore.

* When participating in the Steam Shader Pre-Caching, you will download existing shader caches from the SteamSwarm shader server. After you exit the game, it will upload new generated shaders to the server.

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Quoting: EikeMajor updates should be posted by the developers as news (that's my hope at least), so following the games could help.

This could be helpful as well: https://store.steampowered.com/updated/myapps/ [External Link]

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Does not surprise me at all. No one was waiting for another card game, especially not by Valve. Of course, there was high demand in the early days, because it was a Valve game. But then the truth kicked in: it's just a card game.

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Quoting: alex9k

This is a simple wrapper script that allows you to easily run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games. This is often useful when a game requires closed-source runtime libraries that are not included with Proton.

Is this any different from WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix winetricks ?

Yes, it is. With your command it will use the system wide wine, instead of Proton. This will force the prefix to be updated to the used Wine version. As you can already imagine, this might do unwanted changes to the prefix. Protontricks however will use the appropriate Proton version.

For the other QoL features Protontricks comes with, you can just go to the Github page.

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Quoting: morgancoxukAll of the Tomb Raider games have a **lot** of different shaders, which is something that DXVK just doesn't like at all and can make games completely unplayable, even if the frame rate is fine.

This is why we need DXVK shader cache sharing in the Steam Client badly.

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This is a fantastic game and to have to figure out everything is part of the fun. I got the game gifted by a friend and played it with friends the first time. We've had a blast even not knowing what to do. Finding out the little things was half the fun.

However, even with strangers the game is really fun and I can only recommend it for anyone who like to have silly fun.

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Quoting: LintuxThis brings me 20FPS more in 7 Days with my 2080ti! Awesome!

I can confirm that this gives a slightly performance boost to 7 days to die. Still runs like crap compared to previous version.

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