Has someone tried to run GTA IV on Linux?
If so, what are your computer specs? and how well or bad it runs?
If so, what are your computer specs? and how well or bad it runs?
jonne, I run it on a pretty old PC and it mostly runs fine. I do get audio stuttering sometimes, but I think that might have something to do with having it installed on a HDD instead of an SSD.
sugar_in_your_tea, Yup, and it ran well. I played through the full game without any issues until the end, when you need to do a certain QTE (unfortunately after a lengthy mission, which had to be restarted each attempt) and had to manually set a framerate cap.
Specs at the time:
- CPU: Ryzen 1700
- GPU: GTX 960 4GB
- RAM: 16GB @ ~3000 MHz
- NVMe SSD
That hardware is pretty old, so I’d guess you’d have no problem if you’re specs are anything recent.
circuitfarmer, I did. It was fine and about what I expected.
It’s not a terribly well optimized game, but that was true on Windows too.
Edit: couple other deets, I’m on a 6600XT and didn’t have any visual issues or anything unexpected. Definitely some stutter and I don’t remember my settings but it was cranked pretty high. Certainly very playable. I think I used Proton Experimental.
flashgnash, Generally I’ve found it’s safe to assume a game does work on Linux nowadays (assuming it’s on Steam) even if it explicitly says it’s unsupported.
If you want to look it up ahead of time check out protondb, it’s a user driven database of how well games run out of the box and how to get them to work if they don’t. Will generally answer the “will X game work on Linux” question pretty quickly
Phanatik, Works on both my PC which runs Wayland on Arch and the Steam Deck. No glaring issues.
notthebees, This is gonna be more windows centric as I game on windows, but I do use dxvk so it’s probably not going to be that far off.
I5-1135G7, iris xe 80 eu, 16 gb of ram. I got around 40 fps in the benchmark on dx9, 50 fps on dxvk. This was on older Intel arc drivers. Vulkan performance has been consistent on their drivers but there may be some improvement. I was running 1080p medium settings, no anti aliasing and tri-linear as filtering.
I had an old i7 8550u laptop with a Radeon 530 2GB DDR3 graphics card. It ran GTA IV about the same with an older version of dxvk, but it had some performance issues because I couldn’t find a higher wattage adapter for it and would throttle.
ALSO TURN OFF SHADOWS. For whatever reason, it’s handled by the CPU.
flashgnash, I didn’t know you even could run dxvk on windows, what’s the reason for doing that?
FuckyWucky, Way better performance and next to no stutters because of how unoptimised gta 4 pc port was
flashgnash, Lol that is amusing but I suppose it’s always the way with old games, modders fix performance issues
giloronfoo, Sounds like the have an Intel Arc GPU. It has little to no hardware support for dx9, but very good support for Vulcan.
notthebees, Even on my old graphics card, which did have dx9 support, it helped. Now older titles might have better performance on new drivers.
flashgnash, Are people really using the Arc? Had thought it was a developer preview rather than an actual consumer product
notthebees, A decent amount of people use arc now because it’s good value. I’m on Iris Xe integrated graphics which is basically baby Arc. I don’t know if it has all of Arc’s quirks or just some.
haych, Yes, a LOT of people. There’s countless videos on YouTube, especially since the Steam Deck’s release.
solarisfire, @haych @vis4valentine At least 347... https://www.protondb.com/app/12210
FuckyWucky, i havent played it on linux but on windows atleast this fixes a shit ton of issues with the game
github.com/ThirteenAG/GTAIV.EFLC.FusionFix
make sure to cap your framerate to 30 during the helicopter scene in last mission.
Confetti_Camouflage, https://www.protondb.com/app/12210 Here’s a page of people reviewing the Linux compatibility of GTA 4. Any game that is on Steam will have a page like this on ProtonDB.
CorrodedCranium, I played it two years ago and ran into slight issues with shadows. The game has the same quirks as it does on Windows with some quick time events being linked to the framerate.
Modding the game on Linux is quite difficult.
miss_brainfart, Vulkan runs the game better than DirectX 9, I will say that much. Had no issues on Arch with Nvidia
notthebees, I used dxvk on windows and it was a definite improvement for GTA iv.
miss_brainfart, Quite the difference, isn’t it. DirectX was often really wonky back then
notthebees, (edited ) Two things to keep in mind though, I’m on Iris Xe graphics which has poor DX9 performance (it’s done entirely in software idk how) and GTA IV is just a really horrible port on PC. It’s cpu rendered shadows and just general jank. Early parts of the map run much worse.
Performance increases were mild but noticable. On both my old computer (i7 8550U and a Radeon 530 2 GB DDR3 gpu) and new computer (i5-1135G7 and Iris XE graphics), I got better frametime consistency and a noticable improvement in fps
It’s also been a while since I’ve played GTA IV. I was running older drivers then and there have been major improvements since.
Edit: vulkan performance has been somewhat consistent on Arc but I was using 2017 drivers due to stability issues. I’d probably see a marginal increase running modern drivers using dxvk.
GreenMario, Runs on steam deck fine. That’s Arch btw
flashgnash, I’m somewhat convinced the btw is just part of the name at this point
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