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Playing on Linux / MacOS: Proton | Wine | Steam Deck experiences (self.palworld)

submitted 11 months ago by thecookingsenpai to c/palworld

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As per title, I am currently playing on Linux using Proton GE Custom latest version (8.27 but also tested 8.25).

My experience is the following.

Specs

Ryzen 7 7730U (8c/16t) Laptop
16GB RAM (14 RAM + 2 VRAM)
Decent performance SSD
Ubuntu Linux 23.10 (with Xanmod 6.7 x64v3 Kernel)
Wayland

Experience

Could not test anything above Low settings due to severe stutter even in the menu and 95% RAM which lead to PC being stuck
At low settings with different resolutions (from 720 to fullscreen 1080) i have 80-85% RAM usage (starting from a 21% base load) and 25-ish FPS performances

Workarounds

Once you get the game installed, add it to Steam as a non steam game pointing directly to the game .exe, compatibility forced to Proton GE or Proton Experimental
If it gives you some Visual C++ dependencies error, use ProtonTrick to install it in the Steam prefix
I did not find any performance tips and tricks

Conclusion

While being playable, I feel that the game can see huge improvements on Linux. However, I think there is also a lot of telemetry (local or remote) / logging in the mix as every pre-release version has (looking at you My Time At Sandrock) and probably the graphics part (especially the engine part) needs to receive some improvements too, so I bet in about 1 month we will see a steady 40-ish FPS with those settings

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nice and beautiful post, thanks for sharing.

I'll share my experience as well. Apologies for the following less-than-stellar formatting.

🖥️ Specs

Ryzen 9 7900 X
Nvidia 3080
32GB DDR5 Corsair RAM
uhhhh sry, random 1TB nvme storage XD
Using whatever defaults Pop-OS gave me, but I had to reinstall nvidia drivers to get the LTS drivers working. Playing through Steam's latest proton settings.

🤓 Experience
Game experience was fine; Nothing is immediately noticeable. It has a terrible memory issue though, so the longer you play it the more issues will begin to crop up. 1~4 hours and the in-game menus begin to lag, although the main gameplay is seemingly untouched by this issue. However, I've had a terrible issue where prolonging this essentially breaks my desktop environment once the game closes.

Playing on high and max render distance and haven't experienced any frame drops other than from the above issue.

...

That has been my palworld experience as a linux noob. Idk about the technicals, but I also hope we see some much needed optimizations soon.

[–] wildflower 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No graphics card?

[–] thecookingsenpai 7 points 11 months ago

Integrated, the 7730U has a AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 If i am not mistaken

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't have to do anything special on my desktop (64GBram / nvidia 535.xx driver / wayland / Arch) or my laptop (96GB ram / AMD 7840U / wayland / Arch). I never bother with proton GE or experimental or whatever, I just install it on steam and let Valve figure out the best defaults. On my laptop, it plays at 2256x1504 on low with 30fps (never checked RAM usage, but I have a lot of RAM), and on my desktop I play in 4k at over 100fps with no real issue.

Have about 40 hours on it, never even seen a crash or anything.

[–] thecookingsenpai 1 points 10 months ago

You have literally 4x my ram, no wonder it works fine

[–] wildflower 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

RAM: 32 GiB

GPU: GTX 1080

Debian 12 / KDE

Didn't have any problems installing or playing the game on high settings. My proton is set to experimental, but other than that, it's all default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I did find a solution, at least for my hardware!

if you add -dx12 to your game parameters the game runs absolutely fine, no more freezing or strange things, hope it helps!

[–] thecookingsenpai 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hello! sorry for the terrible delay! First of all, thanks! Then: do you use Steam to launch it? If so, you put -dx12 in the launch options?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are playing on Steam: Palworld > Propierties > Launch options and put -dx12

If you are playing outside Steam (🏴‍☠️), like on Bottles for example, go to your Bottle, Programs, press the 3 descending dots that that opens the settings of a program and enter in "Change launch options...", and put -dx12 just like in Steam.

[–] thecookingsenpai 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is I play on Steam (🏴‍☠️), with steam recognizing the game as legit . I obtained (legit ofc) the 0.1.4 and with -dx12 (on 0.1.2 and on 0.1.4) the fluidity is way better indeed while the RAM usage still is almost too much for a 16gb laptop with 2gb shared vram. Playable tho. I will consider installing some mod to enhance performances if they does not look so lame, else ill just kill every other process except palworld and use the dx12 trick. Thanks!

[–] thecookingsenpai 1 points 10 months ago

Also i am gonna to post an updated version of this report, you helped me a LOT!

[–] specseaweed 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for posting this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think there is also a lot of telemetry

You can bet that's true if it uses Epic Online Services, which I believe it does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm running EndeavourOS on a Ryzen 7 5700X and a Radeon RX 7600 with the game installed on a HDD and I'm getting 100-120 fps in most areas. In some places it drops to ~30 though.