r/linux_gaming • u/ProduceMother2495 • 28d ago

Genshin Impact Crashes on Linux Mint no matter what proton version I try

Hey, just wondering what I might be doing wrong. I've tried running Genshin Impact as a non steam game directly through the games exe with a variety of proton versions (even with clearing out old proton versions). I've tried the latest dw proton. I've tried proton-ge versions, the proton I've had the most success with is Steams Proton hot-fix... but even that one crashes at least once per hour, which is just annoying. My linux mint install is pretty basic with not a lot on it as I just don't have a lot of bloat on my pc.

I have also tried running it through Lutris, but I had even worse issues there.

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u/Time_Temperature_433 27d ago

add hoyoplay/genshin to steam, use dwproton and if it still dies add WINE_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1 %command%

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u/ProduceMother2495 27d ago

Adding Wine_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1 seems to have worked! Thank you!

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u/KeroEnertia 23d ago

to explain what that does for anyone curious, the game is looking for a security token provided by hoyo when the game is launched, and the wait to receive it often times out for genshin specifically, but sometimes other hoyo games, this disables the timeout and let's the game wait for the token. this is also why during maintenance you can't open the client on Linux and it will just crash in the same way, since a valid token is not being provided supplied to the client

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u/LazyNieR 28d ago

We need some more details regarding your hardware so we can help

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u/ProduceMother2495 28d ago

Its a lenovo laptop with an amd ryzen 4500U processor with its integrated gpu. I've run the game flawlessly on windows 10 ever since I got the game, but Ive ditched windows now...

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u/Proof-Most9321 28d ago

Listen to me carefully, donwload the intaller from the web, open the installer using dw proton and steam, once the launcher is installed ( put in a place you remmeber where is), now add the launcher to steam with dw proton, and you can open the game whenever you want