In the beginning, i used Proton Expermimental (i think) because of some problems starting the game. But i can check again and also try one of the stable versions.
I changed Proton to Proton 8.0-5 and it seems that it runs much smoother now! Thank you for the tip. But like i also mentioned, the graphics look grainy and bad (hope pasteboard is working here): pasteboard.co/J04DV6MLyjBy.pngpasteboard.co/jw2C0cRoKIxU.pngHow can i get rid of this? Has this something to do with the shaders? I already disabled the steam shaders and re enabled it.
I’m not familiar with the game or how it should look like but it is quite old and was considered quite intensive at the time which may explain some of the effects present here.
I can give some general observations and tips though:
The fizzling you prominently see here exists to mask LOD (level of detail) transitions
LOD appears to be quite low overall; especially textures in the distance
Just a question. We see it supports X or Y new games, or improve Z or A games. But does those change are made specifically for those games, or do they improve the code in general and it affects older and ancients games ?
Give firmware-git a shot. There are some fixes in it that are not in firmware yet.
If that doesn’t solve it: for “underclocking” you would have to set a kernel param to enable it. I had a good experience with lact. They also explain the necessary setup in their README. In my case the GPU was running with higher limits than the vendor specified. I simply clocked it back to these specs and it seemed to have worked fine so far. It’s a different GPU, though.
If that also doesn’t solve it: do you have Windows as dual boot option? Can you try the same games there? If that is also unstable, I would suspect hardware issues.
I think I finally have it all figured out. I was previously using corectrl to monitor and adjust the GPU but lact has so much more info and adjustment. I immediately saw the card flapping between clock speeds under load. I applied the only high clock speeds setting and that all stopped the voltage stayed constant. However and this is why I didn’t realize with corectrl is that the card was now thermal throttling causing an undervolt condition. I went in cleaned out the dust bunny’s, dislodged a sata cable from one of the fans and relocated some hard drives for more airflow. The card now runs at a toasty 85 under load which from my past amd experience is perfectly fine. Thank you for the help kind stranger.
looks like after an update (?), the rockstar games launcher doesn’t open automatically / in time anymore when you launch GTA. as a small hack, you can launch the launcher (ugh) in the background, wait a bit, and then run the game. This seems to also affect other games in the rockstar launcher, such as red dead redemption (which I don’t play myself)
copying their message here for reference:
I’m don’t play the game so I’m not sure if this is fully working, but I got inside the game in the story mode.
This is based on the solution that works on windows.
After installing the game, run it once so it installs the rockstart launcher, log in
Close the Rockstar launcher
In the game install folder, create a file called fix.bat with this content (the file has to be in the same folder as PlayGTAV.exe):
Used to run eOS several years ago, as I was coming off using OSX. I quickly realised it was more of a skin deep imitation and ended up switching to gnome, that keeps all the drag&drop actions across all apps. If you have some spare time, give fedora a go, which comes with a vanilla gnome install. Flatpaks are well integeated, speedy tested updates and installing nvidia drivers is 2 clicks on the software app (scroll down on the main page to see the “drivers” section)
This is really weird. I started seeing the same thing a couple of days ago, and switching Proton versions (latest/experimental, or even to wine) didn’t help. I also bit the bullet of completely reinstalling the game, without success.
The common “fix” for this posted online seems to be to change your DNS server or use a VPN. I’ve looked at my DNS traffic, it’s fine. Haven’t gotten around to trying a VPN yet. (the hypothesis being that rockstar IP-banned you for some reason. doesn’t make sense either, because I’m able to log in to the launcher initially)
i looked on the reddit community and it seems to be a weird interaction between the rockstar launcher and heroic, looks like it works on lutris and someone mentioned a trick to make gta v work, i didnt tried any of those tricks, im going to try on windows first to make sure i didnt got banned due to some weird reason (although it shouldnt be the case, since i havent touched the online at all)
A super minor thing that will likely not matter to most people - I believe steamcli requires the traditional steam package to be installed, and will not work with the flatpak (at least on the atomic desktop systems I’ve tested with).
If you have both I’d imagine everything would work fine
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