Question about recent changes (Arch)

[ThePirate42]

While I was updating with makepkg, root access was required. I searched online, and it seems that the privileged command disables something in the kernel that would normally speed up 32bit applications, and disabling that is an alternative to the patched glibc (that leagueoflegends-git doesn't require anymore).

Why have you made this change? Affecting performance for all 32bit applications seems worse than just using a patched library. Then again I don't know nothing about how this actually works so maybe there is a good reason, or the information that I found is wrong.

I'm asking because I don't really need lol on this PC, so if the change is actually necessary and the kernel tweak actually slows down things, I would prefer to just uninstall lol.

[polkaulfield]

Yesterday after updating the package I found out kyechou made the switch to the vsyscall patch... I game other 32-bit games and I cant sacrifice performance also.

On my repo, I have it forked and frozen before the proton switch. I'm a contributor here but i like the glibc approach better also. I added the PKGBUILD to create the arch package. https://github.com/ekistece/leagueoflegends

Open an issue if you have any problem on my repo

[kyechou]

Hi @ThePirate42, yes, disabling the parameter is an alternative to the patched glibc, and leagueoflegends-git requires either one of those to work. I'm also aware that disabling the parameter may slow down some 32-bit applications, but I'm not sure how much impact it'd have on performance. The reason why I made this change is because the current version of wine-lol is based on an older version of wine, which has some issues with the recent releases of LoL. But I haven't had time to go through all the required patches for the newer wine and for glibc to make them work with the game. If anyone can help updating and testing M-Reimer's wine-lol to a newer version, I'd be more than happy to switch back to the glibc method.

[polkaulfield]

Well maybe a new repo or branch with the known stable wine-lol + wine-lol-glibc approach with its associated AUR package would be pretty neat. I can help to maintain that.

[kyechou]

That'd be great! I'll create a new package leagueoflegends-ge-git with wine-ge-lol for GloriousEggroll's wine, and revert leagueoflegends-git back with the stable wine-lol + wine-lol-glibc approach... (probably over the weekend) @ekistece If it's okay with you, please send me an email with your AUR username so that I could add you as co-maintainer.

[polkaulfield]

Thank you man! I don't have an AUR accopunt yet, I'll make one when I have time. Your script is really useful and easy to work with btw, lutris always gave me problems for some reason.

[NyaomiDEV]

Right now, leagueoflegends-git needs wine-ge-lol which conflicts with wine, wine-staging and other wine forks. This is not ideal, as wine-ge-lol can have problems with ordinary Windows software. The proposed solution is to create an alternative package that does not conflict with the systemwide install of wine.

[kyechou]

Thanks @NyaomiDEV, yeah that makes sense. Another folk had the same comment at the AUR comment section.

Here are a few changes.

• wine-ge-lol is now installed at /opt/wine-ge-lol, so it doesn't have conflicts now with wine or other wine variants.
• The main script leagueoflegends stays the same for the most part, but now there are two versions of make install. make install installs the original version, which depends on M-Reimer's wine-lol and wine-lol-glibc, while make install-ge installs the newer version, which depends on wine-ge-lol (i.e., GloriousEggroll's wine-ge-custom).
• The AUR package now contains two corresponding split packages: leagueoflegends-git and leagueoflegends-ge-git.
• During installation, neither of the two make install commands will modify any sysctl variables. Instead, when launching the game, the launcher script will exit with error messages asking the user to set the variable manually if necessary.

I hope that works for most people. A minor issue is that the old wine-lol does not seem to work anymore (at least not on my setup), but the newer version of wine-ge-lol does. Closing this thread for now. Please feel free to open new ones if there are other issues.

[kyechou]

Small update. Both packages should work now. Many of the recent issues seem to stem from the driver updates of Nvidia related packages.