PROTON/LINUX

[Vault 13]

Hello, does it work on Linux?

[grodysattva]

It has worked well under Wine for a while, so I imagine it will work ok under Proton, though I have not tried it myself.

[Vault 13]

I keep that in mind grodysattva, thank you for your reply. ;)

[Epsilon]

There's severe resolution switch problems and sound popping. Just like on WINE. The sound popping issues have existed for well over a decade. Still not fixed in WINE.

[I like Chop Goblins.]

Originally posted by Epsilon:

There's severe resolution switch problems and sound popping. Just like on WINE. The sound popping issues have existed for well over a decade. Still not fixed in WINE.

That game hasn't had any issues filed on the official github Issues tracker for Proton. The stealthy, quiet wheel gets no grease.

[CptSnarkyPants]

I'm having issues with the unofficial scient patch and pracx. FMV intro works, then it freezes on Firaxis logo. I used protontricks to patch, because the regular steam install wasn't displaying a mouse cursor for some reason. Annoying. I'll keep fiddling and see what I can do about making it work.

[Juke of Earl]

It works on Steam Deck, if that answers anything at all?

[CptSnarkyPants]

...which is why it's infuriating that I'm bumping into age-old issues like not having a cursor on a full-sized Linux box.

[CptSnarkyPants]

GOT IT!

Use protontricks to run winecfg, in drives tab, check "use dotfiles" box, so you can see your install path in ~/.steam/[rest of the path].

Download scient patch and pracx, stick in your installed folder for SMAC.

Use protontricks to run task manager, select "new task" and browse to your installed SMAC folder where you just put the patches. Run the scient patch first, then pracx afterwards.

Now, if you're in Gnome, the final step is to stop it from popping up the irritating force quit/wait dialogue. Older games hate this, especially if they have issues losing window focus. I was freezing on firaxis logo after FMV intro until I changed my application timeout to much higher than the default 5 seconds in Gnome.

Run the following in terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter check-alive-timeout 60000

Runs best in vanilla proton 8

Choose to run SMACX instead of vanilla, always.

Now I have widescreen, windowed mode from pracx, the latest community fixes from scient, etc. And best of all, unlike the original Steam install, I also now have a mouse cursor.

Kiss my weekend goodbye!

[erazerhead99]

Do you people still get the extremely annoying sound popping? I tried to work around that problem for years, never found a solution.