Hey gang, I’m having trouble running this game. I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4070 Ti Super, 64GB DDR5 RAM, on a B650 motherboard. My issue is frequent crashing/freezing, meaning I can’t play longer than a few minutes at a time. I have tried re-installing the game, Steam, the entire OS, and then fully wiping the drives to remove Windows dual partition and only installing Mint. Then I was pointed to the drivers, so I tried updating using the ppa(?) driver availability as Mint only offered the nVidia 550 through Driver Manager. I tried each of the separate drivers, rebooting between each load, and still having the same issue. For reference, I was able to run through character creator and early intro of the Streetkid after many failed attempts. But then I get to the ride-along with Dexter DeShawn which does not have skippable sections and takes too long. So the length of that conversation is too long before the game either freezes or outright crashes.
Any suggestions are welcome, it’s really really annoying me and pretty disheartening after hearing how everything just works on Linux (other than competitive online games, which I don’t really play anyway).
Edit to add: I also tried the different Proton versions available through Steam, where I purchased the game.
For me it started crashing frequently as well. But I tried it on my windows partition with the same result (and even more frequent crashes). So I thought it must be some update of the game that introduced that and not Proton/Linux.
Then I tried several Proton versions and one of the older ones seems to be crashing less so I can actually play for some time.
Which Proton Version did you try? I think I’ve been through each of them available on Steam but can retry a specific one to troubleshoot.
There are community builds of proton that incorporates additional patch sets which may help. Proton-ge is one of the more popular ones.
Don’t worry about trying to figure out how to install it manually, you can use protonup-qt to download the version and install it into the right place. (or protonup-rs, if you want a command line version).
When you install the newest version (Currently GE-Proton9-27) you’ll have to restart Steam and then it’ll appear in the list alongside the Valve proton versions. Many of the nvidia-specific issues I have with proton are fixed with proton-ge (RTX3080)
e: oops, someone has already mentioned this.
I think I Stück with 8. It has not completely solved the issue but I can at least play for half an hour before it crashes. No idea if it’s related to Proton at all or if I just got lucky.