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Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago

Hi all. Thank you for everyone's suggestion it ended up being iGPU related. Please see the edit on the main post.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My game will not start when I try this command. Any other idea's I appreciate all the advice so far. Just really frustrating TBH

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 2 points 5 months ago

Must have dropped this 'T' Here ya go bud.

*RX 5600XT

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I tried running the script but I have grub2 instead of grub and I am honestly not comfortable modifying boot up configs willey-nilley since I use this machine for side gig work and gaming. I tried ProtonGE like someone mentioned below and that also did not work. Game still looks like this at about 20fps. Which is unideal for an RTS lol

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 2 points 5 months ago

Replying to the original reply. I got ProtonGE9-4 up and running and the game still plays the same. Game still says I dont even meeting the minimum system requirements for "Low" settings. Really not sure whats going on here.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago

Great! Thanks for the information.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago

This looks promising. And sounds exactly what I'm facing. I have never ran a .sh file like what was referenced on the post.

fix-amdgpu23-driver-crash.sh

Any idea is I just dump this into a command window? Still new to this Linux stuff so appreciate any guidance. Don't wanna fuck up anything lol.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Great I'll give this a shot. I've never install anything via asdf, similar to RPM? Can I have this installed along side normal Proton? I don't want to mess with the 99% of games that are working 100% fine on Linux through Steam Proton.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 1 points 5 months ago

Drongo nap. My man! Love that crazy Aussie. appreciate the time.

Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I have not. Is this within the Proton compatibility tab within steam? I'm away from my machine for a couple more hours but I'll look into this.

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Any advice in getting AOE4 to Run through Proton (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LazyLombax to c/[email protected]

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Age of Empires 4 is the only game I have had trouble getting to run properly after my switch to Linux. On my Windows boot I can play at 100% scaling 1440P and get a solid 80fps with High settings

When I launch AOE4 on Linux through steam it defaults to 720p low graphics and 50% scaling and still only gets about 20FPS in the menu!

If I manually up the settings to the level I know my rig can run based on my Windows boot the game basically crawls to a hault.

I have scrolled through all of the pages on ProtonDB and tried all of the Boot Config's suggested that relate to underperformance in the preference menu in steam. I have tried forcing proton experimental and the beta version and running it in an X11 session.

Even moderate increases from the 720p defaults cause so much lag the game is unplayable.

It feels like the game isn't even using my GPU. Any advice on getting this working? My workaround right now is to just boot into windows when I want to play AOE4 the side benefit of this is solid HDR support but I hope that changes once Wayland HDR for gaming works better out if the box.

Setup Fedora KDE Plasma AMD 5600X Graphics AMD AMD RYZEN 7 7700X CPU Dual Monitor Setup. Main Monitor 27" 1440P with Freesnnc Second Monitor 21" 1080P with Freesync

SOLVED: Buddy of mine suggested I monitor my GPU usage just to see if that helped find any clues on what was going on. I installed Misson Control and took a look at the usage. This is when I noticed that I had 2 GPUs. Then it clicked. For some reason AOE4 was using my iGPU. I upgraded CPU's over the summer and never realized this AMD CPU had an iGPU. I am sure I could have found a command to force Proton to use a specific GPU but the quick and dirty was just disabling it. I disabled it in the bios and restarted. No more iGPU in Misson Center. However, now none of my games launched in Steam. Messed around with some launch options for about an hour until i just reinstalled my MESA drivers. Rebooted and now everything plays perfectly.

Blender in c/[email protected]

[–] LazyLombax 3 points 7 months ago

Check out Ondsel it's a FreeCAD fork that is very polished and has some optional paid teirs for PLM. They are using RealThunder's fix to the topological naming problem and Assembly3 for their assembly workbench. Which works really well on the small subassemblies I've made so far. I've been using it for a few weeks after switching to Linux as my daily driver and loosing access to Fusion360, it's missing a ton of EOL features still, Offsets is a big one for me, but it's getting there.

As someone that's been using CAD for almost 15 years it still takes a bit of a learning curve coming from Softwares like SOLIDWORKS, NX, Creo, or Fusion. But after getting the hang of it and installing some great add-ons from the community to expand the workbenches I'm really loving it. It's built in FEM great for static models. Not replacing ANSYS anytime soon. But fun to mess around with.

Having a solid basis in GD&T really helps you understand why FreeCAD makes certain decisions. Learning DOF rescritions using minimum constraints really sets you up for success. And using OG datums for sketches and then project to surfaces has been a big mindset shift for me that's helped solve a lot of issues I had with the software when I first used it years back.