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!

  • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 months ago

    You need protontricks and the numeric game id.

    From a terminal, run

    protontricks game_id winecfg

    And it will pop up a config window for the proton instance for that game. From there, you can tell it to pretend to be windows 10 instead of win7. You should only need to change it once. (Well, maybe again if you change proton version, or maybe not. I’m not sure how steam manages its wineprefixes)

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months 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.