Venetica Gold Edition from GOG
When installing this game, all of my RAM and swap were consumed, the install process took 2 hours, it's the first time a game does this. Not only that but I can't even run it, tried several versions of Wine and Proton, to no avail. I've attached a screenshot and will also attach a log if requested. Forgot to say I tried the troubleshooting tips from ProtonDB and that's why I have a desktop there.
I also need to say I'm running a rather... unique hardware here, but that shouldn't be the cause of these problems.
41 Replies
stormy-gold•5w ago
can you switch to proton-ge-latest, then send a game log after launching?
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stormy-gold•5w ago
if you are on wine-ge or something, here's the instructions to properly switch back onto proton
Wine-GE is rather old now (last release is almost a year ago) and thus might not work correctly. Please follow these instructions on using GE-Proton:
1. Head to the Wine Manager in Heroic, click the "Proton-GE" tab, and install "Proton-GE-Latest"
2. Head to the settings for your game(s) (icon on game card in library). In the "Wine Version" dropdown, select "Proton - Proton-GE-latest"
3. Rename your Wineprefix (path is shown in game settings), e.g. from
current-name to current-name_bak. To clarify: Rename the actual folder on your hard drive, do not change the option in the game settings.
Note: This will make game-specific configuration data (e.g. in-game settings or save files) unavailable. If this is an issue, let us know & we'll help you restore them.flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Thank you for being so helpful! I shall send it now
stormy-gold•5w ago
🫡
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
So I really need the third step there after switching the Wine version to GE-Proton-Latest?
Just rename the folder huh
Alright done
stormy-gold•5w ago
yeah, wine-ge and proton use different prefix naming schemes and not switching the name can screw things up, i think (i could be misremembering tbh)
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
I do remember in older versions of Heroic it would reinstall everything on the prefix when switching the Wine versions around, but not anymore.
I use this on PCs with socket 775 hardware, to... well, you'll see on my log.
It's installing a lot of stuff at the moment, apologies if it takes a long while now.
What, it worked
it launched now
stormy-gold•5w ago
crazy setup
cool beans 🫡
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
What the heeeell
Okay now I will go back to several games and yeet the prefixes before giving up
Wow man, I feel stupid now.
Am I crazy when I said this btw?
Also, is it the Wine version I used then, Proton CachyOS, the responsible?
stormy-gold•5w ago
i havent a clue, honestly, i havent been using heroic for the longest time LOL
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
And like a champ you came to my aid, thanks.
stormy-gold•5w ago
i do what i can when i can :3
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
I feel absolutely stupid for not trying to redo the prefix, it's what I usually did on the 775 PC with Catquest
Same, but mostly with PlayStation consoles
(I'm running Linux on a PS4)
stormy-gold•5w ago
do you got a pentium in there?
im so curious
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Pentium E5800, no GPU
stormy-gold•5w ago
what 775 cpu is in that demon ðŸ˜
holy
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
3.20GHz, dual core
I tried Venetica there but it didn't have the proper iGPU to even have a chance
This is technically a GTX 1050, so...
stormy-gold•5w ago
:trol:
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
I'm literally running Arch on PS4
Anyway let me see how well the game performs, before I mark as solved.
The good old days of having to restart to change graphics
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
lol she blinked but yeah, weird performance but it seems to be running
Nice rich presence icon :D
Abysmal performance :( at max settings that is
Oh man the distro crashed
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
i dont recall heroic transferring data between wine and proton, that's always been a manual thing if you wanted to copy over saves or something
heroic did and still does, auto install wine dependencies, before with its own database, but with proton-ge through umu now
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
I never had to move my saves though, at least with the few games I tried messing around with to squeeze performance.
Even old stuff like Dino Crisis 1 and 2
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
you didnt have to move saves, but if you wanted to keep progress and it wasnt cloud saved, you'd have to
the directory structures werent compatible between wine-ge and proton
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Ohhhhhh
Well that was a locally installed game, sadly.
Well my distro crashed and since this is a PS4 I gotta do a bit to get back.
Very bad performance though, 16FPS with max settings at 1080p
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
yeah i mean what do you expect on something probably weaker than a steam deck 😄
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
It's my most powerful machine :')
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
granted i think the gpu has a higher tdp
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
AMD Liverpool, equivalent to a GTX 1050, but you choose the VRAM, in my case I pick 2GB
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
basically its a precursor to the chip in the steam deck
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Yeah this is the AMD Jaguar
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
nod
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Not even a PS4 Pro, oh I wish
I love how you guys didn't call me a liar or judged me for doing this like most would
This is legit my best PC
My laptop's a fourth gen i5 with 6GB RAM and no dedicated GPU, runs everything barely if at all.
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
i mean outside of being a bit oddball, ps4/5 and xbox series are all x86 hardware so as long as your os has all the drivers and such it seems relatively plausible
unlike trying to do all this on a switch running linux x_x
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
I know people who have tried.
I ran Android x86 on the laptop before Linux.
But yeah stuff here works on PS4, but I have issues with brightness/gamma, it's either too dark or too low in some titles.
Can't tell if it's a driver issue with the PS4 or with AMD GPUs, I never had a dGPU before.
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
i'd assume its because its a bit of an edge case for the driver
i cant imagine its support is bug free
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
Venetica looks fine except the awful lag. Tweaking this one will be a pain since you need to restart the game each time.
It's being held together by a few people at best, I'm one responsible for testing, which is what I've been doing, which by the way thanks for Heroic :D
Far better than testing stuff on Steam, the client itself is laggy while Heroic works fine even on my old socket 775 PC
Even at 720p, the game's chugging quite hard, 11FPS on a cutscene :/ then sudden jump to 40.
fascinating-indigo•5w ago
oh yeah i couldnt imagine steam running well heh
im glad heroic helps
flat-fuchsiaOP•5w ago
On any Linux machine I run it, the web helper always crashes and requires several restarts
I've spread word about the launcher everywhere I go.
No matter what graphics settings I use with this game, it still runs horribly bad
Literally lowest settings, main menu doesn't budge from 45FPS 💀