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Help with Cyberpunk 2077 on Mint (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey gang, I'm having trouble running this game. I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4070 Ti Super, 64GB DDR5 RAM, on a B650 motherboard. My issue is frequent crashing/freezing, meaning I can't play longer than a few minutes at a time. I have tried re-installing the game, Steam, the entire OS, and then fully wiping the drives to remove Windows dual partition and only installing Mint. Then I was pointed to the drivers, so I tried updating using the ppa(?) driver availability as Mint only offered the nVidia 550 through Driver Manager. I tried each of the separate drivers, rebooting between each load, and still having the same issue. For reference, I was able to run through character creator and early intro of the Streetkid after many failed attempts. But then I get to the ride-along with Dexter DeShawn which does not have skippable sections and takes too long. So the length of that conversation is too long before the game either freezes or outright crashes.

Any suggestions are welcome, it's really really annoying me and pretty disheartening after hearing how everything just works on Linux (other than competitive online games, which I don't really play anyway).

Edit to add: I also tried the different Proton versions available through Steam, where I purchased the game.

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

An easy option to limit the GPU power on Nvidia cards is GreenWithEnvy.

Not sure what else it could be... For me it's running fine on an RTX 3080 on Mint with the 570 driver... ProtonDB also doesn't seem to have any relevant reports for the RTX 40 series...

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

Did you do anything special during setup? I couldn't find many reports specific to this card on ProtonDB, but lots of people were using different Proton versions that weren't available on Steam so wasn't sure if that was it.

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

Did you do anything special during setup? I couldn’t find many reports specific to this card on ProtonDB, but lots of people were using different Proton versions that weren’t available on Steam so wasn’t sure if that was it.

For me, it defaulted to Proton Experimental. It worked fine so I haven't changed it. But I can test 9.0 later. At some point I added "--launcher-skip" to skip the launcher, but it was also stable before that.

I'm running the flatpak version of Steam. Maybe you could try switching between the native and flatpak versions of Stream?

I'm also using the default Mint 6.8 kernel. Assuming that you are using the same, you could try switching to the newer HWE kernel.

Honestly, those two already kind-of feel like grasping at straws, but this one is even weirder (I'm only posting it because we both have AMD B650 mainboards): When I first switched to Linux, I noticed that I had a lot more weird crashes than on Windows. Eventually, I got a sufficiently specific error message (dxgi_error_device_reset I think) that led me to a workaround: After I switched the GPU PCIe Gen Mode to Gen4 in the BIOS the crashes were gone. I think the same issue occured on Windows too, but it somehow manages to recover from it. I would be surprised if you have the same issue, but I guess it doesn't hurt trying.

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

I also added the launcher skip command in Steam, and have been running with Proton Experimental (though I have tried many other versions). I am running the version of Steam installed via Mint's Software Manager, not sure what flatpak is or what it would change.

I also am currently running the following kernel: 6.8.0-58-generic (per the Update Manager).

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

Have you tried GE-Proton? Probably won't work but might be worth a shot.

A different game, but I recently read about someone having to go all the way back to Proton 3.something to get it to work (forget which game), so maybe try that if you haven't?

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

No, it's not available through Steam. So far I've only tried the Proton versions available in Steam compatibility settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Once you download it through the protonup-qt app, it gets added to your compatibility list dropdown in Steam automatically.

I dunno, worth a shot. Like I said, probably unlikely if every other version hasn't worked. But if you're desperate...

I'd say it's also worth just having GE-Proton on hand anyway. I often just default to it. And if a game has any issues whatsoever with the official default, it's the first alternative I try and works nearly every time.