Pal World on Proton

[Faital Ryuu]

So far, ProtonDB says that many players are able to play Pal World using Proton, some having to tinker and others claiming out-of-the-box performance that's acceptable for gameplay. I am one of the unlucky few that is having no luck running this in Proton. It's hard to say if hardware is at fault or if my specific OS install and drivers are at fault.

So far, I've tried Proton 8.0-4, Proton Experimental, and Glorious Eggroll 8-27, and I've had similar results. I am able to get to the Pal World loading screen, with the circle loader graphic briefly moving then stopping. Then my monitors shut off. With the regular Proton builds, what happens is my monitors turn back on but show artifacted frozen graphics. With the GE build, my monitors basically turn off and don't turn back on. The fix to get back where I started was the same for all three attempts: restart the computer.

If anyone can help, feel free to write back here!

Specs:
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.7.0-0-MANJARO
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 5.27.10
WM: KWin
CPU: Intel i7-3770K (8) @ 3.900GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon VII
Memory: 5275MiB / 15957MiB

[BlackMetalViking]

All i get is a black screen for maybe 30 seconds and then it just crashes back to desktop. I am on Manjaro, running Proton Experimental, and using a Nvidia RTX 3080

[guilamb]

I'm running it without any problem on Manjaro, using kernel 6.5.13-7 and GE proton8-16.

[Hanro50]

I got it running on Kubuntu 23.10

It has some bugs and I've experienced some crashes although generally the only issue that really plagued my experience was some major slowdown I experienced once my base got packed with pals.

I've not experienced anything that's brought down my system. So that may be a driver issue. Manjaro in my experience handles some things weirdly so maybe that is the cause of some of your issues.

My specs are
CPU: AMD 5800x
RAM: 32GB ddr3
GPU: AMD Radion RX 6600
WM: kwin (using x11)
OS: Kubuntu 23.10
Kernel: Xanmod-stable (v3)

Some things you can try is falling back to the opengl renderer for proton instead of using dxvk. It is slower, but it sometimes boasts better compatibility.

You can also try updating your system, installing wine and seeing if changing between using steam's bundled libs vs your system's native libs makes a difference.

Beyond this you can check if you're using wayland or x11 and switch to the opposite protocol to check it that helps.