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DravenusRex / stalker-gamma-linux-guide

A guide to getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - G.A.M.M.A. running on GNU/LINUX.
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2022/01/21 Gamma Install Guide Changes, and more #4

Closed zarong-465465 closed 1 year ago

zarong-465465 commented 1 year ago

I recently followed your guide, but had to make some adjustments to make it work on my desktop Arch Linux system as of (2022/01/21).

Please consider my proposed changes:

  1. The Windows 10 (tested on Home edition) virtual machine needed for the installation process (for powershell) should have its disk size specified. I was able to install gamma, however it ran out of space on the drive about 80% into the process I threw it in the calculator, and... you would need at least 130GB now, with a possibility of 140GB depending on randomness.

  2. Do not disable/reinstall the shader and gas mask mods in the ReShade process, as it will result in a shader failed to generate crash on game save load. Not uninstalling the mods does not appear to negatively affect the experience without ReShade in any way.

  3. In Lutris, set your Gamma install's Wine Version to lutris-GE-Proton-7-33-x86_64, or whichever the newest version of the Proton one is. This will enable the game to run as smoothly as it possibly can according to system specs, I get 20-30 more FPS than on Windows with this version.

  4. In Lutris, open "Wine Configuration" with Gamma selected by hitting the arrow next to the Wine glass at the bottom, and set "Windows Version" to 10 rather than 7, Apply/OK. Might be unnecessary, but this could tie in with the previous change, and doesn't seem to negatively impact anything.

  5. Ingame, the FPS Limiter will lead to choppiness on Linux, but VSync in its place will not. (Possibly not the case on all systems, but it might be the case for Nvidia proprietary driver users? Added a disclaimer for that.)

  6. Added suggestions on compressed install transfer.

  7. GShade as a ReShade-compatible native Linux replacement suggestion, tested to not have the ReShade input bug and to work with the included GAMMA reshade config. With some extra tips.

  8. Some minor readability changes that I thought might work.

I hope it'll help!

begin-theadventure commented 1 year ago
  1. Wouldn't using shared folders be much better.
zarong-465465 commented 1 year ago
  1. Wouldn't using shared folders be much better.

This is already present in my forked README.md on line 30. I forgot to add it to my merge comment though. I'll add an edit

zarong-465465 commented 1 year ago
  1. Wouldn't using shared folders be much better.

Actually, I had already commented on that:

6. Added suggestions on compressed install transfer.

zarong-465465 commented 1 year ago

Great! I didn't expect it to be merged so quickly, as I wasn't sure how to read inactivity on GitHub. Your original links should be back in the GAMMA discord soon, they were swapped temporarily to point current users in the most up-to-date direction.