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.
Okay I’ll install that to try to get some monitoring in-game. Do you know if that’s available directly through Mint’s Software Manager?
Yes it is. And you can look up a video on how to install it too. There isn’t a GUI, just a text editor. And you set launch parameters for it to show up in steam. Or lutris has the option for it in settings.
Alright I got it installed. This was attempt 2, (Step 1 in another comment basically with no changes to get a baseline).
I installed mangohud and configured to show GPU load, CPU load, VRAM, RAM, GPU temp, and CPU temp. I booted the game again, and this time from pressing Continue and loading into the game, I didn’t even have time to start the timer. I would guess maybe 2s before freezing. Onscreen stats from MangoHUD read “GPU 98%, 53C, CPU 64% 71C, VRAM 7.9GiB, RAM 9.0GiB”.
CPU and GPU both shot way up from the baseline configuration example in GOverlay I used. Looks like this may be the issue. I’ll try to get the temps down and retry.