A big request from Steam Linux users

[Radium_Angel]

I've been trying to move off Windows and full time to Linux. I know most about Ubuntu, but am open to red-hat or arch-based distros (or even more obscure ones, I"m easy)

I play two stupid games, Unturned, and Armoured Warfare. Both are available on Steam. Unturned is native, so that works fine.

AW is.....not native.

Until recently, Proton, or GloriousEggroll's version of Proton worked. Then it seemingly stopped working.

What I'd dearly like, is someone who has a Steam account under their distro of Linux, please try to install the full client of AW (about 35Gig of space needed)

I'm unsure where the issue is under Ubuntu (20.04) 

I'm pretty sure it's some kind of update the devs did with AW that has broken things, but I'd like to know for sure.

The base install of AW is 187 megs of space, which then launches the client for the full download. The base of 187MB does just fine, it's the rest that goes stupid (and at least under Ubuntu, you can readily see it going corrupt, so you may not even have to do the full install)

 

If it works for a different distro, I'm morethan willing to switch, I just can't spend the time trying each distro out there, hoping to find one that works, which is why I'm asking you guys to give it a swing.

 

Thank you in advance for all those who try.

 

[imcaspar]

31 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I've been trying to move off Windows and full time to Linux. I know most about Ubuntu, but am open to red-hat or arch-based distros (or even more obscure ones, I"m easy)

I play two stupid games, Unturned, and Armoured Warfare. Both are available on Steam. Unturned is native, so that works fine.

AW is.....not native.

Until recently, Proton, or GloriousEggroll's version of Proton worked. Then it seemingly stopped working.

What I'd dearly like, is someone who has a Steam account under their distro of Linux, please try to install the full client of AW (about 35Gig of space needed)

I'm unsure where the issue is under Ubuntu (20.04) 

I'm pretty sure it's some kind of update the devs did with AW that has broken things, but I'd like to know for sure.

The base install of AW is 187 megs of space, which then launches the client for the full download. The base of 187MB does just fine, it's the rest that goes stupid (and at least under Ubuntu, you can readily see it going corrupt, so you may not even have to do the full install)

 

If it works for a different distro, I'm morethan willing to switch, I just can't spend the time trying each distro out there, hoping to find one that works, which is why I'm asking you guys to give it a swing.

 

Thank you in advance for all those who try.

 

What Graphics Driver are you using? Are you running under wayland or xorg?

[Radium_Angel]

8 minutes ago, imcaspar said:

What Graphics Driver are you using? Are you running under wayland or xorg?

Using the nVidia 440 proprietary driver 

[Guest]

 

Works with some slight performance issues, but completely playable. Seems to have a hard time utilizing the entire GPU. Played at Max Graphical Preset at 1440p

 

Operating System: Arch Linux
Kernel Version: 5.8.10-17-tkg-pds
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

 

chaotic-aur/linux-tkg-pds-zen2

chaotic-aur/proton-tkg-git

 

Those packages may have issues on Manjaro, if your looking at it. My wife recently switched to Arch due to compatibility issues with the Chaotic-AUR and AUR

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

Works with some slight performance issues, but completely playable

Thank you for going the distance for me. I had very slight perf issues under Ubuntu, until it quit working entirely.

I looked into Manjaro, but may have to go full arch.

 

Cheers mate!

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

chaotic-aur/linux-tkg-pds-zen2

chaotic-aur/proton-tkg-git

What do those packages do, and how are they installed in Arch? I'm far more comfortable in Ubuntu and haven't tried anything non-Debian based.

[Guest]

On 9/25/2020 at 12:39 PM, Radium_Angel said:

Thank you for going the distance for me. I had very slight perf issues under Ubuntu, until it quit working entirely.

I looked into Manjaro, but may have to go full arch.

 

Cheers mate!

No Problem.

 

 

On 9/25/2020 at 12:52 PM, Radium_Angel said:

What do those packages do, and how are they installed in Arch? I'm far more comfortable in Ubuntu and haven't tried anything non-Debian based.

 

Here is a list of things I use for Wine and Proton on Arch as well as a few tips.

 

Pacman is Arch's package manager https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

pacman -S packagename -> installs packages
pacman -Ss key words -> searches packages
pacman -Syu updates the system
pacman -R packagename -> removes packages
pacman -Sy -> refreshes the pacman database
pacman -Sy packagename -> refreshes the database and downloads the package
pacman -U pkg.tarfile -> installs package from tar file

you get the idea. refer to the link above for more information.

 

Arch needs multilib uncommented in etc/pacman.conf for Steam and Wine.

 

Chaotic AUR Repo, everything in here is pre-compiled, includes some things from the AUR aswell as other sources.

Make sure you read the part about NVIDIA on the site.
https://lonewolf.pedrohlc.com/chaotic-aur/

 

From the Chaotic AUR

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AUR helper and pacman alternative, uses same commands as pacman jsut with the advantage of auto handeling pkgbuilds from the aur instead of using git clone and makepkg. make sure to uncomment MAKEFLAGS="-j12" in "/etc/makepkg.conf" and change the number to your cpu thread count.

chaotic-aur/yay

 

GUI for pacman and AUR if you want one, sometimes hangs when downloading packages. Just don't use any package manager that comes with a Desktop environment such as Discover in KDE  as it doesn't handle optional dependencies.

chaotic-aur/pamac-aur-git

 

Fsync Patched kernel with PDS Scheduler and various other patches, you can search for a kernel for your CPU using "yay -Ss linux tkg pds" you can also just use the generic kernel "linux-tkg-pds"

chaotic-aur/linux-tkg-pds
chaotic-aur/linux-tkg-pds-headers

 

This is a useful script to update grub.cfg without issuing the full command. just do "sudo update-grub" You will need to update grub.cfg anytime you add or remove a kernel.

chaotic-aur/update-grub

 

TKG Proton

chaotic-aur/proton-tkg-git

 

Upstream VKD3D for Proton

chaotic-aur/vkd3d-proton-tkg-git
chaotic-aur/lib32-vkd3d-proton-tkg-git

 

Wine Staging with TKG Patches, same as Proton TKG.

Amazing Wine build, I actually use a single wine prefix for everything and dumped lutris. q4wine is also a great additional tool to use.

Add "WINEFSYNC=1" to /etc/environment for global Wine Fsync support, requires Fsync patched kernel.

chaotic-aur/wine-tkg-staging-fsync-vkd3d-git

 

Optional Wine and Proton Tricks

chaotic-aur/winetricks-git
chaotic-aur/protontricks-git

 

Optional MangoHud, as seen in the screenshot above

chaotic-aur/mangohud
chaotic-aur/lib32-mangohud

For automatic Vulkan Display add "MANGOHUD=1" to /etc/environment.

For OpenGL games, add mangohud before the launch command, "mangohud application", for steam its "mangohud %command%"

Refer to https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud for more information.

 

Optional GOverlay to help configure mangohud with a GUI

chaotic-aur/goverlay-git

 

upstream mesa with patches, may only be beneficial for AMD Graphics Cards

chaotic-aur/lib32-mesa-tkg-git
chaotic-aur/mesa-tkg-git

From the AUR
Upstream DXVK, Pre-compiled binary. Better performance and compatibility for some reason than what's in wine tkg, might just be because of dll overrides.

yay -Sy dxvk-bin

run setup_dxvk install
If using multiple wine prefixes just export your WINEPATH first.

Optional Wine Dependencies from official repository, not sure what's needed but some things in Proton and Wine require them, I just have them all installed.

I'm sure things like samba, dosbox, cups are only needed for special use cases inside Wine. No harm in having them however and you will probably end up with samba and cups anyways.

pacman -Sy giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader sdl2 lib32-sdl2 cups samba clang dosbox ccache faudio lib32-faudio schedtool wine-mono wine-gecko

 

Gecko and Mono for Wine-TKG

yay -Sy wine-mono-bin wine-gecko-bin

 

Additional Notes:

Steam tends to have issues with Wayland, but so do various other X Applications, YMMV. I Recommend using xorg instead of wayland.

 

This is all in reference to how I personally setup our systems. If you need any help or tips, just let me know.