Raft on linux (Steam Play)

[sb_prime]

I would like to inform everyone that this game is playable on linux using the new "Steam Play" feature. I noticed only one problem, the water does not render ;) Hopefully this will be fixed in near future.

Tested on:
* nvidia 870
* Proton 3.7-3 and 3.7-5

[Bellancia]

Steam play? Where does one find this feature?

[sb_prime]

1. Enable steam beta (steam not the game!), settings -> account -> change -> steam beta update,
2. Restart steam
3. Enable steam play, settings -> steam play, select: enable steam play for supported titles, enable steam for all titles, uns this tool istead of game-specific selections from steam (I'm 80% sure the last one is not needed),
4. Restart steam

If you did everything right you will see your entire game library under "steamos + linux" (windows + linux games). For windows games you wil see something like: "runs on this computer via steam play".

Please remember that this is experimental and not all games work, those that work might have some issues. In addition this requires a proper vulkan setup on your machine.

If you are using a optimus gpu (nvidia laptop setup) this won't work as long as you are using bumblebee. In theory it should work with nvidia-xrun, I setup my machine so it does not use the intel GPI only the nvidia.

[Seegras]

For me, it crashes unless I start it with "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" as launch command.

[<<AN>> RustyOvenMitts]

Doesn't work for me. "Screen: DX11 could not switch resolution (1920x1080fs=1 hz=0)"

Graphics:
Card-1: Intel Device 591b
Card-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@59.93hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116

Tried:
Proton 3.7-8, 4.2-9, 4.11-11
Both GPUs (selected from nvidia control pannel). With Intel selected the game crashes hard before launching and Unity Crash Reporter app runs (but never appears, I see it in `ps -ef` output)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
64-bit

Most other games I've tried run fine, like No Man's Sky. Sad this doesn't work :(

[SomKen | #FreeHK]

Proton works...........................

[proandtonplusdb]

For more reports of people successfully running this game https://www.protondb.com/app/648800

Btw, this game got a Platinum rating there, not many games get it.

Proton is here to stay guys! Thanks to similar tools developed by others I can play Blizzard games(without almost any glitches). I never before dreamed of playing these games. Not only Valve launched Proton. Other players in the Linux gaming arena also brought other tools to run almost any game. All 1337 powerusers can now write scripts using these tools to make almost any Windows game run on Linux. It's thanks to them I can run Blizzard games too, not to mention Rockstar games.

Though I think the biggest part has been played by Valve, investing immense amount of time and money into Linux, which I think has paid off, and is paying off and will pay off even more in the future and you submitting quality reports to ProtonDB will only help the Proton community. I'm willing to test games now that only work for Windows so I can write reports on how well they worked with Proton and what problems I encountered.
Checking the success stories at ProtonDB of this game running on Proton I'm willing to buy this game now.

Valve is amazing! Those who have waited for the Linux Gaming year, for me it is already here. If nobody declare any year the of Linux Gaming, I declare 2020 the year of the Linux Gaming breakthrough.

I no longer say Linux. I say Proton and Lutris. I ask, does your game run on Lutris?(Lutris sometimes uses Proton, depending on the situation)
Does your game run on Proton?

[Ingupin]

For those being stuck here, i thought this game was borked for me as well but managed to fix it. I am using Proton Experimental as compatibility option. The game would not run for me and always crash with an obscure message about invalid window parameters. This is because the game tries to run with a setting, your system is not compatible with.
To get around this, i added "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% -fullscreen3" to the launch options. The game started up fine this time but the rendering and all seemed broken. I found out that the settings have to be set to "borderless" and your native screen resolution. Other settings did not work for me on two computers. One running AMD HD7950, the other running an nVidia Quadro M3000M. The game would simply crash on startup if anything else was set. All other settings don't seem to have any adverse effect.
I exited the game after settings were made and removed the launch options entirely. After launching again it started up fine and the rendering was perfect! With the launch options which have to be set for the initial launch, there were no textures and the menu was a bit borked. Don't let the game fool you! After you made the mentioned settings and restart, it's all fine :)

[<<AN>> RustyOvenMitts]

I did get this working on my desktop with no effort and no performance issues. Worked flawlessly. Never worked on my laptop tho :(