Update with solution at the end
Hi all! If there’s a better community for these questions I can post over there instead.
I’m not new to linux in general, but I am new to gaming on linux. I finally ditched Windows and installed Debian 12. I’ve got propriety Nvidia drivers installed, Steam’s installed and I’ve only checked one other game so far (Palworld, working flawlessly).
Monster Hunter Wilds is just giving me a headache and I’m not quite sure how to troubleshoot it, whether it’s something on my side (most likely) or something else. I can get the game to start using Proton Experimental (bleeding edge), it does it’s graphics/shader thing, gets past the branding, and then freezes on the “Initializing Network” screen.
I’ve looked through through the ProtonDB and tried various launch options that were recommended, but still with no luck. I’m actually locked out for 24 hours because Denuvo sees switching Proton versions as trying to reinstall on multiple machines, so any potential solutions will have to be tested once that lock resets.
Happy to provide anything needed, logs or whatnot. Might just need to be pointed in the right direction to find those.
System Info:
- Debian 12 (bookworm)
- Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- RAM: 32GB
- GPU: RTX 3060 Ti
- GPU Driver: 535.216.01
Edit: Finally got things working! Turns out that the Debian repositories don’t have up to date drivers, didn’t realize that going in. Fully removing Nvidia drivers and manually installing the latest version from Nvidia (Following this guide) has me playing again! There’s a few visual glitches that I need to see if I can get fixed with some mods, but if anyone is having similar issues then it may be a driver error!
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Look into Proton GE. It’s a custom Proton version, and a new version dropped yesterday with some fixes for Monster Hunter Wilds.
EDIT: I don’t play, but hopefully this will lead you in the right direction.
The fixes were just for save importing though, but I’ve had better luck running it with GE rather than Valve’s on my AMD card nonetheless
I’ll take a look!
Just install protonup-qt. Gives you an easy, UI based, way to install GE-Proton without messing around copying files manually.
You should install the latest 570 driver for nvidia and try again. I’m not sure how much of a difference it would make but I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt.
There’s already an update?? I literally installed just a couple days ago, I’m surprised it didn’t give me the latest driver
Debian ships with older but stable packages. It won’t provide you the latest version of your Nvidia drivers, you’d probably have to get them from Nvidias website yourself.
Yeah, this is what I ended up doing. I’m surprised that the standard repository has such an old version! Completely removing that one and manually installing the latest version fixed my problems thankfully, minus a few visual glitches that weren’t there in Windows (Not too surprising)
It may be more Nvidia related since the game runs fine with my set up, but I am on AMD hardware. So not too sure how to advise.
I was using Proton hotfix for a while and that got the game to run. I know a more recently version of proton has fixes for MH Wild. Hopefully this new update fixed your issues.
