Hi all, I installed GTA 4 Complete Edition from Steam. The first time I tried playing after installation it worked flawlessly but has been giving me this error ever since. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I have tried using a different Proton version only to get the same error again. I am on Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon with 13th Gen i7-3700K, RTX3080 Ti and 32 GB RAM. I haven’t been able to find any help on Proton DB, hoping somebody here might have some idea. And I apologize if this is no the right place for this post, please let me know where I should post it. Thanks!

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    23 days ago

    Appears it should work pretty well according to ProtonDB

    https://www.protondb.com/app/12210?device=pc

    You might need to install ProtonUp-QT and grab GE-Proton and set the game compatibility mode to “Proton Experimental GE-Proton”

    There are also suggestions of downgrading the game version to remove the launcher (Im assuming the launcher does the windows version check)

    And this user’s problem/solution sounds identical to yours

    I needed to switch to windows 10 support, while firtst launching it said that windows 7 and 8 was no longer supported.

    To fix: in protontricks select GTA 4, Select default wineprefix, Run winecfg, A window should now pop up, at the bottom In Windows version select Windows 10, select Apply and OK Even if you see Windows 10 already selected reselect it and press OK.

    Then it worked perfect.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      24 days ago

      You might need to install ProtonUp-QT and grab GE-Proton and set the game compatibility mode to “Proton Experimental”

      If you’re installing proton ge, you should set compatibility mode to proton ge. Proton experimental is Valve’s experimental version of proton, not GE.

      • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        24 days ago

        Not doubting you - I thought experimental referred an additional compat layer you select via Proton UP?

        • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          23 days ago

          I believe the experimental option is always there in steam, even if you’ve never used proton up. It just contains experimental features that valve hasn’t put into a regular release yet.

    • Gibberish9031@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      Oh wow, I don’t know hos I missed this post on Proton DB, but thanks for posting it here. It got rid of the error but now I tries to launch the Rockstar Launcher but doesn’t launch either.