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Transistor - Epic Games version (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm currently trying to get Transistor to run.
EndeavourOS, Nvidia gpu, and I have the Windows version that was free on Epic that one time, so ideally I'd like to run it through Heroic.

According to PCGamingWiki, it can be run DRM-free with the -AUTH_LOGIN=unused launch option, so that's what I'd like to do.

EDIT:
I want to be able to sideload the game files

Looking on ProtonDB, people mainly suggest setting the compability to Windows XP, and it seems to run best with Proton Experimental. One report mentions adding it to Steam to launch it there, but it's all the same for me:

Quick blackscreen with the game trying to launch, and then it crashes back to desktop.

Did anyone get it to run recently? Any other ideas I might've missed?

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

Remember that experimental is a constantly changing version. When you see users suggesting you set a game to use proton experimental, always check the date, because more likely than not, experimental no longer refers to the same experimental they used.

I'll test this out and get back to you on whether I can run it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

it would be helpful for experimental to still use numbers for this type of thing

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Good point, I haven't thought of that little detail

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm back.

I installed the windows version from steam. The game does not run under proton 8.0-5, but does with the current versions of experimental and Proton-GE from the AUR.

I did not need to set windows version to XP, or do any other kind of extra fiddling. So all you should need is to set the no DRM launch option in heroic to allow the Epic version to run.

If you haven't installed that Proton-GE package from the AUR, I suggest doing so. It's been the only "custom" proton version I've needed for ages, it gets updated when a new version comes out and makes itself available for selection in both Steam and Heroic, so it's a very set and forget way to use the GE versions of Proton.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Still the same. It tries to launch, I get a short blackscreen, and then it crashes again. I have sideloaded it into Heroic, and the log stops with these two lines:

INFO: [Frontend]: Refreshing sideload Library

WARNING: [Backend]: refresh not implemented on Sideload Library Manager

If I download and install it directly from Epic again, and simply check the box for it to run offline, it works just fine. But that kinda defeats the point, I want to be able to sideload it without having to authenticate myself, which should be possible according to the entry at PCGamingWiki

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Where are you adding the no DRM arg?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I put it into the field for launch options in Heroic first, to which it told me that it's an environment variable I have to define in the appropriate table below, so I did that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is most definitely not an environment variable. The game doesn't see those.

They are a Linux thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Doesn't run either way, so there's that.

The Steam version doesn't seem to need any launch option tweaks to be run directly from the executable, but then again, Steam also sells the native Linux version.

One more info I found is that the game might crash on startup when it can't load the correct audio device. But the file that is mentioned, where I'd have to manually select the device, doesn't exist. So that's another avenue to explore.

I'm so confused though. I tried it on Windows too, added the launch option to avoid authentication, but it does not want to launch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Only the epic version has that DRM D:

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I guess PCGamingWiki lied to me :|

Still though, when I download and install it „officially“, I can check the box to run it offline before ever starting it, and it runs just fine.

I can also click download but then import my existing files instead, and it also runs.

God dang it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The information was added to the wiki by an unregistered user, though most games on Epic at the time were DRM-free. This particular game being DRM-free on every other platform also makes the claim plausible.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Shot in the dark - Is there any chance the game data is on a shared NTFS partition? The start > blackscreen > dead pattern often happens if you happen to be accessing the game data from an NTFS partition, but that part of the error message is super deep and not really obvious.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Everything's on my ext4 Linux drive.

After some more trial and error, I think I've come to the conclusion that either the Epic Version can't actually be run DRM-free, or I'm somehow being too dumb to copy paste the launch option that allows it to.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I don’t have an Nvidia card myself but have you tried the latest Wine-GE through Heroic?

Worst case, you can pick up the native Linux version on Steam right now for 80% off.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Latest Wine-GE seems to not even try to launch it. With Proton, I can at least see the Transistor.exe pop up in btop, so there's that

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