ProtonDB doesn’t have any report yet but YouTube is full of videos of content creators that got early access to the game. I was curious to know if anyone tried it with Proton and how it works…
EDIT I just installed it and it seems to work out-of-the-box for me on Ubuntu 23.10 with a AMD 7900 XTX and AMD 5800X. I’m getting around 55 fps at 3440x1440 with almost everything high beside having disabled V-Sync, DoF and Motion blur. AA set to TAA 2x.
Runs fine on my computer. Getting a consistent 40-60 fps without lag or stuttering in a 10K city.
- OS: Manjaro
- KERNEL: 6.5.5-1
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
- DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.9
- PROTON: 8.0-4
Runs like hot garbage on medium 4K on a 6900XT. 25fps with an empty city. On launch, it defaulted to ultimate settings, and had the menus chugging at 3fps.
Feels like they accidentally shipped a debug/non-optimized build to customers.
They flatout said the performance is not where they wanted it to be. This state was to be expected. Nonetheless glad it’s on gamepads and hope that I’ll be able to run it some day.
I just installed it and it seems to work out-of-the-box for me on Ubuntu 23.10 with a AMD 7900 XTX and AMD 5800X. I’m getting around 55 fps at 3440x1440 with almost everything high beside having disabled V-Sync, DoF and Motion blur. AA set to TAA 2x.
Proton is good enough that I’m extremely confident that games will “just work” even if it’s a fresh release. If it for some reason doesn’t, refunding is free and easy. Though it sounds like it’s an unoptimized mess regardless lol.
Typically it’s only “good enough” because the community has rallied and written the scripts to tailor the wine prefix for that specific game’s peculiarities.
A demo would probably do it, or an advance copy, or a leak. But it might not “just work” from 12:01 after the midnight release.
You’re confusing Proton with community efforts like Lutris. Proton is a package of technologies (Wine, DXVK, Vessel), not a configuration manager. Each individual game gets an identical, isolated runtime environment without any bespoke modifications except for downloading precompiled shaders (if available).
It’s certainly true that Proton has hardcoded quirk flags for specific applications, but these are exceptions which prove the rule – there are <200 of these compared with thousands of Verified status games. Almost always, Valve prefers to fix the upstream Wine/DXVK bug rather than hacking around it. Any hacks which Valve does ship are in the Proton source code, not per-game environment scripts.
Uh when is the last time you used proton? That’s not even slightly true. I just beat Baldur’s Gate 3, it “just work”, zero issues from proton’s side of things. I play Genshin Impact too, which works with zero configuration or anything. Even the anti cheat they made compatible with it.
Have you read the Proton patch notes? People work hard to make that work.
I can attest to this. I don’t play the absolute newest games, but I can’t think of a single title that did not work with Proton-GE, without any tinkering past like… early 2022. It has been very smooth, no matter the kind of game. Of course, minus the known offenders like Destiny 2 or R6 Siege
