Magic Proton Sauce

[TheSyldat]

Howdy everyone long time minter fan here but who uses Linux to game these days.

Since this August , Valve has released their own version of Wine named Proton in order to play windows games on linux.
More often then not very few things are needed to get the game up and running yet in the case of Gridrunner Revolution the game launches alright buuut a runs way too fast .
So any fellow penguins over here who got the game to play nice ? And if yes what launch options did you use ?

[Deckard]

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[TheSyldat]

I did some more tweaking around with the few launch options already provided by Valve and it seems to get the game to launch a bit more reliably . But it goes way too fast. Even the launch options it made things a bit better but not by much.

[Chris_R]

Just a thought, what frequency does your monitor run at?

[TheSyldat]

Just a thought, what frequency does your monitor run at?

I have a bog standard monitor locked at 60 FPS
And even with anything fancier it wouldn't matter anyway the timing issue would pop up again it's a case of the program running too fast nothing else really.
Proton as it stands right now is nothing more than a version of Wine created to integrate with the Linux version of steam.
But with very few tweaking options so far. And well it doesn't seem to have a environment variable that disables CMST to force Proton to run on a single core.

[rowan]

Just a thought, what frequency does your monitor run at?

I have a bog standard monitor locked at 60 FPS
And even with anything fancier it wouldn't matter anyway the timing issue would pop up again it's a case of the program running too fast nothing else really.

I guess when you say 'locked', you also mean VSync is enabled?

Sorry, I've no experience with this under WINE, Proton or anything non-Win. But it is not unusual that the main game loop & its timings are directly tied to framerate, hence Chris_R's suggestion.

[TheSyldat]

I guess when you say 'locked', you also mean VSync is enabled?

Sorry, I've no experience with this under WINE, Proton or anything non-Win. But it is not unusual that the main game loop & its timings are directly tied to framerate, hence Chris_R's suggestion.

The way wine (and therefore Proton) handles the displaying of a game is buy furnishing a virtual screen that is a virtual LCD that runs at 60Hz so that when we troubleshoot timing issues this is already taken out of the way.
Besides on modern windows with core i7 processors the timing issues does pop up as well until you limit the game so that it doesn't see all the other cores of the CPU
I have received from a fellow Linux gamer a little bit of a work around but it's a bit overkill, and the guys at Valve in charge of Proton seeing how much it took a proverbial bazooka to chase that tiny little fly , sent me a confirmation that they work on creating an environment variable that we could use to disable CsMT (basically a module to improve preformance for a game sometimes it works and like with Gridrunner sometimes it fails miserably).

So I'll just have to wait for now sadly. Gridrunner isn't the only game impacted and other titles would benefit from it so they're working on it they just wanna make sure it doesn't break anything else.

Sooo for now if I wanna play Gridrunner I'll still have to retort to a huge tweak around.

[Baggypants]

I've had a go and it's fine.

Maybe try using wine without proton.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=21114

[TheSyldat]

I've had a go and it's fine.

Maybe try using wine without proton.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=21114

This report is fairly old I haven't tried in regular old wine just yet, but again as the title of the thread shows I much more "in the market" for sharing with others trying out with proton .

[Baggypants]

I've had a go and it's fine.

Maybe try using wine without proton.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=21114

This report is fairly old I haven't tried in regular old wine just yet, but again as the title of the thread shows I much more "in the market" for sharing with others trying out with proton .

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I had a go (with proton) and it's fine.