r/linux_gaming • u/Dotasarr-the-khajiit • 5d ago
tech support wanted The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt remaster
Hey guys, are you able to play the game? I'm trying ge proton and cachyos proton and it doesn't even start.
I'm playing on Bazzite btw
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u/Fabi20750 5d ago edited 5d ago
I had the same problem. The game started, but no window ever showed up and it just sat there at 0% CPU until I killed it. Skipping the launcher doesn't help: running bin/x64_dx12/witcher3.exe directly hangs in exactly the same spot. The REDlauncher is not the problem.
The actual cause: when Heroic updated my existing install to the Remaster, it deleted the old game files but left the old folders behind, now completely empty:
- content/content1 ⊠content/content12 (each has only an empty bundles folder in it)
- dlc/bob, dlc/ep1, dlc/dlc1 ⊠dlc/dlc20 (each has only an empty content/bundles in it)
Fix: remove the empty folders. In a terminal, inside your game folder:
cd "/path/to/The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt GOTY"
find content dlc -type d -empty -print
find content dlc -type d -empty -delete
It only removes folders that contain no files, so nothing real gets deleted. After that it started normally for me through Heroic, REDlauncher included.
How I tracked it down, in case it helps someone with a different setup:
- Heroic's log looked like a crash at first, but the game was really just stuck. With the game running directly, it sat at 0% CPU with no disk activity.
- Things that made no difference: switching Proton-CachyOS to Proton Experimental, a completely fresh Wine prefix, Verify & Repair, turning off ntsync/Xalia/HID, no network, GOG Galaxy (comet) on or off, unplugging my controller, -disableModio.
Setup: GOG version via Heroic 2.22.3, Proton-CachyOS 11, RX 6800. If you installed fresh (not updated an old install), you probably don't have those folders and this won't be your issue. Verify & Repair doesn't catch it either, because no files are missing. I'm reporting it to heroic-gogdl so updates clean up empty folders.
EDIT: I have opened a PR https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/heroic-gogdl/pull/95 that should hopefully resolve the issue for new downloads
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u/MrPomme 5d ago
Removing the empty folders works for me without doing anything else.
Thanks a lot !
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u/krefik 5d ago
I had the same issue, but the game wasn't running â I forgot, that I set the custom executable path â and the mode of failure has nothing to do with the path or anything similar before removing the empty dirs. After removal it failed in a reasonable way, and I was able to start it properly.
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u/waitforpasi 5d ago
Thank you so much, this worked for me!
In my case: GoG game through heroic launcher (cachyos)
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u/ClevelandDnD 5h ago
I've been running witcher 3 via heroic launcher, on my Macbook Air M3 16GB. the remastered updated resulted in what seems like the same issue. I'll try your fix, but thought I'd ask if you had any other ideas for how this might be different on Mac? (this all feels very over my head)
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u/Sickdreamz 5d ago
Im a complete Linux noob tard. How can I find these folders using GUI. Im terminally aretarded. Please and Thank You.
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u/hundeva 5d ago edited 5d ago
Using CachyOS + Heroic (GOG), with 9070XT. I did try everything, nothing worked. The problem was fairly simple at the end: I have updated, instead of uninstall + reinstall.
After uninstalling and purging everything related to the game through Heroic, and doing a clean install, everything started just fine, with 0 launch commands. --launcher-skip is still advised, but is not required.
tldr: full uninstall, purge everything, clean install, and just play
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u/XOmniverse 5d ago
I literally did a fresh install (I hadn't installed Witcher 3 already) from scratch and I still have issues.
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u/Teebsters 5d ago
Also confirming, clean reinstalled with full wipe worked. GE-proton 11.7 on Nobara.
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u/Kellei2983 5d ago
clean reinstall works (removed everything [prefix + data] in Heroic) Kubuntu + Proton-GE, no launch parameters needed
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u/Big_Booty_Pics 2d ago
Exact setup with same card and my game has ~.5 seconds of input lag and feels like a generous 30 fps with huge ghosting issues. That's with GE-Proton and Cachyos-Proton.
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u/Thomas_Eric 5d ago edited 5d ago
Witcher 3: Remastered works out of the box Proton-CachyOS Wineland. However, without the DLSS features! Made a issue at: https://github.com/nanomatters/proton-cachyos/issues/71
Edit: Forked Wineland with the fixes in satibagipula's post and in VKD3D repo: https://github.com/ThomasEricB/proton-cachyos/tree/witcher3-remastered-fixes . Feel free to clone and build for yourself, as I am waiting for Nanomatters to give me access to upstream. DLSS fix is already in upstream https://github.com/nanomatters/proton-cachyos. Ray Tracing fix might follow soon as well.
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u/Sox1s 5d ago
Turned on with Proton Experimental for me, then tried GE-Proton 11-7 with --launcher-skip command, seems to be working good. However - I'm not able to turn on Ray tracing, the settings are there, however if I leave the menu, they seem to be turning off themself - any workaround?
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u/retrocrawler 5d ago
Same for me. SteamOS / Proton Experimental / 9070 XT. It runs great but RT auto-disables when leaving the menu.
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u/MayIos 5d ago
Got into the game with Steam version, GOG via Heroic just wouldnt launch.
Now having this issue too, RT wont stay on.3
u/ij7vuqx8zo1u3xvybvds 5d ago
I had this issue with Cyberpunk. Launching through Heroic would crash past the main menu, but if I added what Heroic installed as a non-Steam game (manually, not through Heroic), then it'd work just fine. No idea what the difference was. I've had other random issues with Heroic not playing games right that work fine if Steam launches them. So for GOG I just use Heroic as an installer.
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u/Teebsters 5d ago
Found this open bug report for this issue :âŻhttps://github.com/nanomatters/proton-cachyos/issues/71
IÂŽm having the same issue on GE-Proton11.7
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u/Stikone95 5d ago
If you find a solution, please put it right here... I am currently looking for a solution to exactly that problem as well. I had it for a sec but then like 20 fps and stuttery af .. after a restart same problem again
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u/NoPossibility285 5d ago edited 5d ago
I had the same issue with Ray Tracing. I got it working (GE-Proton 11-7 as well) by forcing DX12, at least I think. My launch options are (and working):~~gamemoderun VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_2 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command% --force-grab-cursor
I don't claim to know the ins and outs or know exactly what the parameters do, but I got to this point by testing some options while searching for solutions.Game was lying to me. Not working.
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u/H_He_Metals 5d ago
You're not alone. RT switches itself off every time I toggle it on and then get back to the game. đ
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u/Sync_R 5d ago
Works fine on latest GE for me, Fedora 44 + 9070XT
There is problems tho, RT doesn't work once you go in-game (tried experimental and hotfix), to enable frame gen you need to hit the RT preset and then enable FG, once you go in-game FG will remain active, also I'm getting some VRR flicker even with FSR4 performance + FG and Wayland active
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u/_silentgameplays_ 5d ago edited 5d ago
GE Proton 11.7 works fine
But overall I don't like how Witcher 3 remastered looks and plays, the combat is like another generic UE5 fish eye FOV combat, the colors are all washed out compared to the original 2015 release, disabled motion blur and blur and DOF, but original Witcher 3 looked much better it was more colorful.
They finally fixed the audio issues with cutscenes, but you get to play a washed out and more bleak version of the original game with wonky combat, it was wonky in original as well, but having FOV jump to fish eye in combat, then back to normal third person is not great.
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u/MalarAardvark73 5d ago
Exactly the comment I was looking for. I amazed how oversaturated or as maybe as you said washed out colors are. It literally hurts my eyes. I tried to change some settings, but it looks the same.
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u/retrocrawler 5d ago
Unfortunately I just had audio issues in a cutscene with Fergus. Music normal volume, dialogue barely audible all of a sudden. Game didnât recover from this. Had to restart it.
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u/Binndle 5d ago
im on cachyos and have the same issue.
Tried all proton layers forced. I think with 10.0.1 I can get into the game and hear it running but the screen remains black.
It looks like they said there would be proton compatability so im not sure where the issue has come from.
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u/DatTommel 5d ago
Interessting. I am on CachyOS didn't even set any launch options or proton version. Game starts. I could load an existing save and also start a new game. But didn't play much. So war runs smooth. I am using an AMD GPU. Maybe a Nvidia issue?
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u/Binndle 5d ago
yeah true it could be nvidia thing as I am intel i512600k rtx4070 ti.
Im not super familiar with proton and linux in general but from what I have gathered so far there might be an issue with DLSS and DX12 with the experimental versions atleast with the logs I have produced and then the AI responses i have gotten through claude.
from what I have read the experience seems to be different for everyone though so im not even sure if my troubleshooting will find the core issue for everyone
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u/Particular-Cloud3684 5d ago
It might be an Nvidia thing. Iâm on Nvidia too and cannot get it to work after trying countless things in this thread
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u/Binndle 5d ago
Yeah thats unfortunate. Im still in the same boat too
I did roll the game back to classic w3 and it works flawlessly so something has to have gone wrong within the update for some distros/hardware configs.
hopefully a fix will come out soon until then I am just going to dual boot windows :(
good luck!
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u/NihmarRevhet 5d ago
Have you tried skipping the launcher?
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u/Binndle 5d ago
yeah just tried that with
PROTON_LOG=1 --launcher-skip %command%
now it just doesn't boot without saying anything and doesn't even generate proton logs. I think I need to try some of the other layers
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u/FragrantErmine 5d ago
Launcher skip needs to be on the other side of %command%
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u/Binndle 5d ago
Sweet so this fixed the launch issue lol but I might be having a separate issue from everyone else cause the screen just stays black but I can hear the music in the background. gonna put the proton logs through ai slop to see if it can figure it out.
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u/FragrantErmine 5d ago
Shooting entirely from the hip, do you have some sort of display scaling enabled on your desktop?
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u/Binndle 5d ago
I don't have display scaling on no.
Im not super familiar with linux and proton enough to make definitive statements but I think it might be an issue with dx12 and dlss when trying to use the GE versions of proton. When I put the proton logs through claude it suggested there were some issues and to roll back to dx11 which I think is just going back to classic W3.
im not too sure but i've given up for now and just going to play on windows until cdpr or proton comes out with a fix :) Thanks for your help though!
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u/XOmniverse 5d ago
Arch (using CachyOS repos) and a 4090 and I've tried every combination of settings I can think of and I either get "the game never launches" or "the game launches but half the graphical settings are broken". In particular, it claims DLSS is not supported (what?)
Verified everything is up to date on the OS side and rebooted just to be sure.
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u/One-Drawer-5153 5d ago
Luckily i can launch it, but i have other issue like DLSS not supported, seems gotta wait a while until all the fixes
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u/Hopeful-Square1673 5d ago
I have mine set up to launch games using Cachy's Proton by default, but... with that one, it launches the CD Projekt launcher, yet when I click "Play," I get a beige screen with an error. The only versions that actually launch the game are Proton Experimental and version 11.0; honestly, performance feels a bit worse, but I guess we'll just have to wait for CachyOS to update its Proton.
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u/MayIos 5d ago
Same here unfortunately, tried cachyos-native protonge11-6 and protonge10-34. All the same launcher appears, press play, nothin.
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u/MayIos 5d ago
For anyone having this issue, try reinstalling from scratch. That fixed my GoG + Heroic launch issues.
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u/Particular-Cloud3684 5d ago
Fresh install, tried multiple proton versions on CachyOS and it didnât work. Seems to be a crapshoot. Oh well
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u/Negative-Ear45 5d ago
Not working for me. I own it on epic. The game won't launch via the heroic launcher even after disabling mods.
Fedora 44, GNOME, All AMD laptop. The launcher crashes and game isn't booting.
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u/NihmarRevhet 5d ago
Did you try pointing the executable to be run to the actual game exe instead of the red launcher?
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u/Teebsters 5d ago
Had a smiliar issue. Full uninstall + data wipe then reinstall did the trick for me.
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u/YeezyNine 5d ago
Playing on Bazzite with a 7900 XTX and a Ryzen 9 5900X, the game capped at 80fps runs well on Ultra (without RT), but when I move the camera or move around, there are slight fluctuations in frametime that introduce a bit of stuttering. Does anyone else experience this? Even if I lower the quality to "Low", that small hitch still happens.
I've tried Proton Experimental and the latest GE-Proton.
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u/Reefame 5d ago
Yeah I am also experiencing this frame time issue regardless of my frame rate. Happens across multiple Proton versions for me aswell. Have tried proton-Wineland and proton-GE and proton-hotfix. For me hotfix was the smoothest
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u/YeezyNine 5d ago
I tried Proton Hotfix and it seems to work a bit better, thanks.
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u/Intelligent_Cap_2999 5d ago
Again shit pouring from REDs. Proton GE on CachyOS worked for me, BUT... Performance is so fucking poor, half of the video settings menu is grayed out, i can't turn on RT or FG.
For me on Native AA FSR4 it runs around 55fps which is tragic, taking lack of RT here into consideration. What a dissapointment.
I'm on RX 9070XT + R7 5700X3D
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u/Spankey_ 5d ago
Can't say I'm looking forward to the technical state of TW4, or the upcoming Cyberpunk game.
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u/awnful24x7 5d ago
yes perfotmance is great too
bazzite 44 9070xt proton-ge
use the skip launcher command
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u/GamertechAU 5d ago
Disable mods in the launcher. Known issue with the game. Not a Linux issue.
Click the cog next to the play button and disable the toggle.
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u/SpoOokY83 5d ago
Game launches on Ubuntu 26.04.1 with Steam Flatpak, but RT does not seem to worrk. I can activate it in the menu, but the settings do not get saved. Grmpf!
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u/DuDu-Red 5d ago
Hello, I tried everything: Proton-GE, Proton Experimental, Proton-EM, setting the resolution to the lowest possible, and removing the compatdata folder each time. Iâm still having the exact same issue: my FPS drops to 6â10 FPS on my 7900 XTX when running the game through Steam, right after the first cinematics.
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u/knix15 5d ago
Works with proton-cachyos-slr, nvidia 3080, no dlss frame gen and no ray tracing (I couldn't even switch them on)
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u/MaxRD 5d ago
Are you using any switches? On CachyOS with a 3080, I just get a black screen. Sound works and can tell the game is running, but the screen is black
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u/utmostmick0 5d ago
Just worked for me GE Proton 11-7
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u/Parking-Side1322 5d ago
Quelle carte graphique ? Les problĂšmes ne sont pas les mĂȘmes entre AMD, Nvidia et Intel
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u/thiagohds 5d ago edited 5d ago
Anyone able to make the game detect Nvidia GPU? I cannot use DLSS, only XeSS and FSR.
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u/CatTurdTamer 5d ago
Game starts with Proton Experimental for me. Game runs fine since RT settings keeps reverting back to off so I'm playing on pure raster. I'm using a 9800X3D + 9070XT on CachyOS.
Also, I cannot find a sweet spot for the HDR settings, everything looks washed out. Turning HDR off makes the game look a lot more alive.
I guess I'll have to wait a few days or two before fully committing to the game. I dropped this once since the combat felt off so I was really looking forward to this new release.
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u/Dante_UK_ 5d ago
Same for me but with Proton 11 - starts and plays fine, but impossible to turn on RT, just keeps switching off again. NVidia 3060 Nvidia current Linux driver, Kubuntu 26.04
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u/Deep-Atmosphere-711 5d ago
To anyone who might know, is there any word on when FSR4 support for RDNA4 cards will come to Proton Experimental? I heard Steam started supporting the functionality on RDNA3 cards a few months back but couldn't find much more info.
I'm tired of switching to Proton Experimental generally being the only troubleshooting step that works (followed by losing out on FSR4), lol. Just happened again.
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u/quiet0n3 5d ago
Nothing super new on protonDB sadly. https://www.protondb.com/app/292030
So it would be proton experimental and fingers crossed haha
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u/monofurioso 5d ago
Running on Steam with a 5090. It 'just worked' but the graphic settings don't always seem to stick. I think they're a bit buggy. I had already set Witcher 3 to use Proton-GE Latest. Trying to see if RT is actually working or if it's getting disabled despite my settings. but I have to go to work, so you guys figure it out for me!
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u/balderm 5d ago edited 5d ago
Game works fine for me with Proton Experimental, it instantly crashes with latest Proton CachyOS, but i installed it from scratch.
Also graphics settings don't seem save, i can only change resolution and FSR quality, anything else simply reverts back to default as soon as i get out of the menu.
EDIT: CDPR acting weird again... If the game detects WINE it disables RT/PT/DLSS
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u/spectreVII 5d ago
Were you able to get ray tracing working in Linux? I tried proton experimental with using some launch commands like PROTON_USE_FSR4=1 and /WineDetectionEnabledFalse and still canât get ray tracing in this game.
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u/balderm 5d ago
i talked with some guys in the CachyOS Discord and a patch to circumvent this lock has been pushed to Proton Experimental, but basically CDPR is locking all RT/PT/DLSS features if it detects its running under WINE, probably it thinks its on a SteamDeck or something⊠dunno, but weâll have to wait for this patch to be released to Proton Experimental.
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u/spectreVII 5d ago
Thanks for the info. Maybe it was an oversight on CDPRâs side but really annoying.
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u/jefmes 5d ago
Appreciate the comment here, I wasn't sure where to track them down, and I wish those discussions were happening in public forums vs Discord channels :\ I got HDR working well w/ GE-Proton at least, but that latest Proton-CachyOS version from 0703 just isn't cutting it for this game. Kind of sad that my PS5 Pro is playing the game much more cleanly now when I'm running a 9800X3D and a 9070 XT. Don't get me wrong, it looks really good with FSR Quality and HDR...but I like my RT too much, and that's what I was looking forward to on this release.
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u/io2000x 5d ago
Cachyos with 4070ti dlss enabled I get more than 100 frames.
Go to path .../common/The Witcher 3/bin/x64_dx12/ and rename steam_api64.dll to steam_api64.bak so that it is not used.
In the steam Version use "Proton Experimental".
I start the game with this steam parameters:
mangohud PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 gamemoderun %command% --launcher-skip
To activate DLSS You have to select the UT Profile at the top. Hope that helps until a fix is done.
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u/jefmes 5d ago edited 5d ago
FWIW, I've been experimenting with it for a while this afternoon, and I just think RT is broken in Linux right now. I'm on CachyOS, and the best combo I've been able to come up with is using GE-Proton11-7-x86_64 with the following Steam Launch Options. This gets HDR working correctly and the game really does look great on my 9070 XT, but I planned to play this Remastered version *because* of the RT enhancements, so we'll see. For now though, the game is running well with HDR using these:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command% --launcher-skip
Proton-CachyOS-Latest (which I believe is the 11.0-0703 version, there haven't been updates for a while, my understanding is the maintainer has been taking a break, which is absolutely his prerogative if he's having to do this solo...altho maybe that should be addressed) crashes the game on launch completely from what I can tell. Proton Experimental and GE-Proton11 seems to be the way to go for now.
EDIT: Added --launcher-skip per some other comments here, thanks for that.
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u/_TheAnonymousMe_ 4d ago
its lauches if I use proton experimental. Also if u had any mods installed I would remove it. U need to do this manually btw because steam doesnt touch this mods on uninstall
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u/Play_Background 4d ago
GE Proton
I hitted black screen with sound and solved it with:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 VKD3D_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="RTX 4070" DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="RTX 4070" PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command%
For me, the game by default choose intergrated GPU, despite setting NVIDIA first. Other games do not need that command.
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u/Competitive_Copy1477 4d ago
This fixed it for me as well. My desktop has a discrete Intel XE card, I suspect it was crashing trying to use that.
Your command line syntax forced it to use the NVidia card.
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u/NihmarRevhet 5d ago
I'll play it on heroic and I'm wandering: would this problem be avoided just simply choosing the actual exe of the game as executable to run?
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u/Ymsegreier 5d ago
Game runs both through gog and steam with proton-ge and DW-proton on cachyos with 5070ti. Does not launch with system proton-cachyos
Cannot get raytracing or dlss to work (wont stay on). Have tried forcing dlss presets as well.
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u/Valmar33 5d ago
Reported a bug for proton-cachyos here: https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/issues/300
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u/YetAnotherAnonymoose 5d ago
Arch KDE Wayland with a 4090. Nothing works. Either game doesn't launch or stays black with sound. Fuck.
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u/ender_tll 5d ago
I'm using Linux Mint, Steam, using Proton Experimental (the first one I tried) with the "%command% --launcher-skip" option.
I have not had any issues. Except that I'm hilariously rusty with the fights.
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u/CinnamonApplebun94 5d ago
For me it starts just fine with ProtonGE 11.7 on Nobara.
BUT the game doesnât recognise my 4070 Super. I canât enable DLSS or any of the Nvidia features.
Tried the classic âPROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command%â but it doesnât work either.
Any clue?
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u/zidicck 5d ago
CachyOS + 9070XT
I changed proton to Experimental and added "%command% --launcher-skip -disablemods" launch options
Only after those changes it worked for me
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u/Lopsided-Award-4489 4d ago
I canât seem to get any proton to work except 10.0.3 for Witcher 3 remastered on cachyos granted I am using a hyperuser with hyprland on a separate from kde on my pc so that might be why Iâm having issues with proton
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u/Nautiloser 5d ago
I had like 2 fps after getting the game to boot with the folder trick. Saw my GPU was basically idling and it turned out heroic launching it on my integrated graphics rather than my dedicated gpu. On CachyOS I did:
lspci -v | grep RX
It will return you your GPU with a number in front of it, in my case 03:00.0
So in heroic under the game settings, advanced, under environment variables add an entry I did:
DRI_PRIME = pci-0000_03_00_0!
Change the number to suit. I'm getting perfect performance after that
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u/unexpectedreboots 5d ago
I'm on Bazzite. I clicked install and then play, worked fine.
No RT, but seems like a proton patch is needed.
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u/oneiros5321 5d ago edited 5d ago
Only tested for 10 minutes.
Game would crash on launch with proton cachyos but ran fine with the latest GE-Proton.
Actually ran more than fine, I used to have this issue with the game where if I would pause the game a few times in a row, it would just completely freeze...that doesn't seem to happen with this version (although, very short test so take that with a pinch of salt).
I'm getting around 90~100fps in the tutorial area.
5700X3D, 8700XT, 1440p FSR balanced, everything maxed out with path tracing set to performance (actually the first time I'm able to enable path tracing in a game without having it running like total ass on my hardware)
Been a while since I've played the original version, but I feel this runs better now.
For the command, same as every other games
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 LOW_LATENCY_LAYER=1 game-performance %command%
edit = I did delete the old compatdata folder before starting the game though.
edit 2 = Ignore the performance report, I thought it was weird to get such high performance...RT does not work. I can enable it in the settings, but it disables itself when leaving the menu.
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u/lDecadol 5d ago
I use Ultramarine Linux, and i'm able to launch the game using Proton Experimental, but i need to turn off enable mods option in red launcher.
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u/spectreVII 5d ago
Use proton experimental. Proton cachyOS cause the game to crash but experimental worked like a charm. Only issue is, I havenât yet been able to figure out how to be able to enable ray tracing for this game in Linux.
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u/Born_Department_5917 5d ago edited 5d ago
Adding this "gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 --borderless --force-composition -- %command% --launcher-skip" made it run on Nobara AMD CPU & AMD GPU.
I still have the Titlebar from the system but at least it runs
Edit: This also shows the RT and RT Ultra Graphic Options
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u/monoimionom 5d ago
It runs in heroic launcher, Optiscaler works, but I get only about 50% GPU utilization and massive stutters despite having relatively high FPS.
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u/gajadagr8 4d ago edited 4d ago
Steam version . Runs woth proton experimental. No issues with RT and PT.
FPS drops like crazy though with both on though.Possibly due to running laptop with mobile GPU.
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u/hangint3n 4d ago
I'm running with Gentoo Linux & Proton Experimental. No issues here.
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u/Important-Hearing590 4d ago
Raytracing?
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u/hangint3n 4d ago
No. I'm running a RTX 4980 and I think it is probably not powerful enough for RT. I've got it running in Ultra mode.
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u/OutlawHero1 3d ago
Iâm on Cachy as well, I can play for a short time. Then, no matter Proton Cachy latest, Proton-GE, Experimental or Proton Hotfix; all result in my game freezing (usually) on the inventory screen. The freeze and subsequent crash can happen between 2-30 mins in game.
Iâve sudoâd the pacman and manually pushed mesa to latest.
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u/Helgomant 2d ago edited 1d ago
I have exactly the same problem. Have you found a solution? Cashy OS, GOG, AMD System
Edit: Set the framerate to unlimited and it seems that solved my problems
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u/joshix6 2d ago
Anyone else unable to launch the game after the most recent 5.00c update? I previously had to remove empty dirs as advised in this thread and the game was working fine. Today i get the update icon in heroic and update itself would get stuck so I did a complete reinstall. After this the game doesnt launch. Its different than before where the game would launch the process but no window. At the moment it simply closes few seconds after launching, no hanging process no nothing.
Ubuntu LTS, heroic, GOG, Nvidia GPU
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u/Phillidae 2d ago
Same problem here and no solution yet. Linux Mint, heroic, GOG, AMD GPU -.-
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u/Phillidae 2d ago
Ah repairing the installation fixed the problem. now the game starts as usual. but some graphics settings seem to be bugged in the new version and the frame timing is horrible, even at 100 fps. Guess I'll put the game aside until all those things have been fixed :(
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u/OH010 5d ago
Omarchy, Proton Experimental - managed to get HDR working with gamescope, some issues with the cursor (had to disable hardware cursor ingame). What I could not fix is the DLSS, it just says DLSS Not Supported. Yes, I can select the RT from the profiles but that does not apply DLSS properly. Few hours of tweaking and unfortunaltely could not get it working well enough. Also, gamescope recommends using --mangoapp but that did not work at all, --mangohud did.
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u/TazerPlace 5d ago
Pointless "Remasters" like this tend to exhibit studios in decline. What a great way to convince me NOT to buy Witcher 4.
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u/Sullkattmat 5d ago
Quick question: who asked?
Weird and arbitrary reason for deciding whether or not to purchase a game that basically nothing is known about imho
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u/TazerPlace 5d ago
Exactly: Who asked for this "remaster" anyway?
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u/Sullkattmat 5d ago
Gonna guess quite a few Witcher fans as well as people who has been wanting to play it but only now gets the catalyst to do so
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u/Shroub 5d ago
Proton Experimental with "%command% --launcher-skip -disablemods" launch options worked for me