I wasn’t even using Wine. I installed it and launched through Steam and the entire process was as seamless as if it were on Windows. Valve is doing great work.
Next time you run into stability issues, you should check in journalctl -e and see what error messages pop up. It is hard to help you without additional info.
I’d be using Wayland unless you have some good reason not to. You will not get good performance out of xorg with multiple monitors. Vsync on Wayland will match your screens refresh rate. The experience is a lot better imo.
This is good news. I want to use this post to shout out Heroic launcher.
A small team of devs (GitHub says 150 contributors, but likely only a small percentage of that consistently works on it), made a free, open-source launcher that is VASTLY better than Epic’s piece of shit.
I mean, for real, this multi-billion dollar company can’t even properly make a basic-ass piece of software. For over three years it has been a laggy mess that bombards the bottom right of my screen with ads. No significant changes or updates that have made the launcher more usable. I deadass pirate the games epic has given me for free so I don’t have to deal with their launcher.
Nice, I was not expecting that. This is my favorite launcher, it’s sleek, fast and solid. I hope someday they add support for Itch.io and Humble so I can get all my games under one roof.
They failed at that before Denuvo was even developed; their predecessor company developed SecuROM, which I was burnt with a couple of times. Once bitten, twice shy.
Clearing the environment variable by adding system: env: DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR: DLLsallowed the launcher installer to properly handle the DLLs by creating a folder in the Game’s directory.
It appears that the game installs and launches fine, I’ve yet to test the actual gameplay, but that’s next.
@BloodSlut@ShaunaTheDead hohoho, a good head start! I had to clear some environment variables from time to time as well, especially when it comes to wine stuff misinterpreting some vars I thought are only for some specific programs I use, so it's not the first time such happened to me. Glad it worked for you, also glad you worked out what env var to clear.
Arc won’t have proper game support until it’s using the Xe driver (not until at least kernel 6.5) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will with Xe, however.
If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn’t require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.
There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don’t really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.
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