I don’t know about your second question, but with almost every proton-ge update I’ve gone into Steam and switched over to the new version with no issues so far.
Maybe that’s a no-no for some games but, again, no issues so far.
EDIT: Same goes for wine-ge whenever I have games I bought through GOG and play through Lutris.
True! I should probably do that before delving too deep to where I start losing my sanity.
EDIT: And ay, voila! It works! Played a little bit and so far I’m not too impressed by performance nor the game itself, but at least it works now.
I’m on Gentoo and I built a new version of Mesa just yesterday.
I’m not running the game in Steam, I’m trying to run it from Lutris with wine-ge, as I did not get the game via Steam.
Hate to jump in 4-5 days after you posting, but what are your Steam launch options?
I see on ProtonDB a lot of people are having to fidget with some Vulkan settings, and I myself can’t even get the game to launch as I get the “Graphics card does not meet minimum requirement” message when I have a RX 6700XT. Granted I’m not running the game through Steam and I’m trying to play via Lutris with wine-ge. If you’re wondering how I’m “not running the game through Steam”, let’s just say the waves were rough last night and creating a lot of torrents.
One thing I tried was editing the current build of Windows to be 11 and not 10, but that doesn’t seem to work. Looking at the ProtonDB page, there’s these following environment variables people here can try adding to their launch options (though don’t add all of them):
ENABLE_VKBASALT=1
AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV
PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NAVPI=1 # note the user who supplied this said they had to downgrade their NVIDIA drivers to 525.x
VKD3D_CONFIG=force_compute_root_parameters_push_ubo # the user who supplied this said nothing worked for them
DISABLE_LAYER_AMD_SWITCHABLE_GRAPHICS_1=1 VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json:/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json # if you have an AMD GPU
DXVK_CONFIG_PATH=/home/niko/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Starfield/dxvk.conf
EDIT: It seems like the following options get rid of the “minimum requirements” message, however now I get “your graphics drivers are out of date.”
# Launch options if you're running the game in Steam
DXVK_ASYNC=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=1 AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json gamemoderun %command% --skip-launcher
This is with wine-ge-proton8-14, don’t know if GE-Proton8-14 would make a difference.
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