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Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: The_Aquabatyou can always resort to oibaf ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
A BIG thank you!
With Mesa 21 from this PPA black environment graphical bugs are gone, everything seems good.
Thank you again!

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 9:39 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlHere is what I use on Debian testing to build it [External Link] for example. The intention is to use it without replacing system Mesa packages, with any needed game on demand.
Thanks for the script again, but it's proved too difficult for me. After resolving some issues I ended with a long log that ends with

Spoiler, click me

CMake binary for MachineChoice.HOST is cached as not found
No CMake binary for machine MachineChoice.HOST not found. Giving up.
Run-time dependency xcb-shm found: NO (tried pkgconfig)

meson.build:1814:4: ERROR: Dependency "xcb-shm" not found, tried pkgconfig

Looks like I would need more and more staff I understand less and less on my system. Giving up. I guess I'll wait for Mesa 21 release while trying to uninstall everything I installed today... :).

Edit:
Quoting: Liam DaweRemember if you need tech support, we have a dedicated Forum.
Ups, that wasn't asking for additional tech support. :).

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 1:38 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlHere is what I use on Debian testing to build it [External Link] for example. The intention is to use it without replacing system Mesa packages, with any needed game on demand.
Thanks. Looks heavy at the first glance, but ill try to dig in it tomorrow (it's 4:30 AM where I am).

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 1:28 am UTC

So, as I understand, we need Mesa 21.0-dev for it? Any easy way to get it? PPA or something?

(Tried to start the game with Mesa 20.3.0 - it starts, but has heavy graphical bugs).

Edit: By the way, it's 64171 Mb in Steam.

Valve contractor working to add Direct3D 12 support to APITrace for VKD3D-Proton
18 Nov 2020 at 10:07 am UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWait, so Asscreed Valhalla works already with VKD3D-Proton? Been looking around and seeing people not having much success with that.
He may mean that debugging of those games now working, not all those games themselves (yet).

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release
6 Nov 2020 at 11:14 pm UTC

Quoting: lod
Quoting: Trias"You're going to need the most up to date drivers possible to use it fully. For AMD that means Mesa's RADV driver ...".

Just to clarify, this "Mesa's RADV driver" is some different Mesa driver from what I'm getting from Kisak-Mesa PPA, yes? Eh, I think I'll wait a bit...
RADV is Mesas vulkan driver for AMD gpus. It's exactly what you get from Kisak-Mesa PPA. Just not new enough. Mesa 20.3 is scheduled for december.
Good to know. Thanks.

Edit: So, I think that's the part I installed with "sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers" command, is it correct?

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release
6 Nov 2020 at 8:57 pm UTC

"You're going to need the most up to date drivers possible to use it fully. For AMD that means Mesa's RADV driver ...".

Just to clarify, this "Mesa's RADV driver" is some different Mesa driver from what I'm getting from Kisak-Mesa PPA, yes? Eh, I think I'll wait a bit...

The compatibility layer Wine sees a 5.19 development release out now
21 Oct 2020 at 2:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ArtenAnd now is time for potentionaly catastrophic news [External Link]
What you think? I'm not from US, so i don't see into us legal system, but it can kill wine...
Yes, it's indeed worrying a bit. Can't actually say anything useful on topic, but thanks for pointing this out.

Play the classic Diablo on Linux with a huge new release of DevilutionX
14 Oct 2020 at 11:23 am UTC

Quoting: mos
Quoting: TriasLutris is very helpful in some cases.
mind to elaborate?
O. K. I'll try.

What i meant is that Lutris gives you a lot of options to fine-tune your game and it's environment. It gives you an option to pick specific wine and DXVK version to run your game, restrict old games to use only one core, use pre-launch and post-exit scripts (O. K. never used this one, but still...), use some specific settings (like when I need my game to launch in windowed mode in specific resolution and mouse pointer to NOT be caged in this window). I mean, for some games you just need more options than picking a version of proton. :). Also, Lutris once helped me when I needed to specify an non-english non-UTF-8 codepage for a game and a few times - when I needed to apply non-official patches and modes for my game (via "run exe inside wine prefix" interaction).

Stuff like this. :).

Play the classic Diablo on Linux with a huge new release of DevilutionX
13 Oct 2020 at 8:16 pm UTC

Quoting: michaldybczakShould Lutris not automate install somehow? Where are those famous Lutris scripts?
Lutris is very helpful in some cases, but yes, it's not very intuitive at first.

To install a game in it you first need to search for it in the app (a button to the right from "Add Game" button, first button in the right column), then pick the game in search result, press "Install" and pick install script from the list.

In case of Diablo I wanted to recommend "GOG + DevilutionX Linux 64 bits" (forum ), but that's basicly what you did yourself, manually. :).