If so, what are your computer specs? and how well or bad it runs?
https://www.protondb.com/app/12210 Here's a page of people reviewing the Linux compatibility of GTA 4. Any game that is on Steam will have a page like this on ProtonDB.
Generally I've found it's safe to assume a game does work on Linux nowadays (assuming it's on Steam) even if it explicitly says it's unsupported.
If you want to look it up ahead of time check out protondb, it's a user driven database of how well games run out of the box and how to get them to work if they don't. Will generally answer the "will X game work on Linux" question pretty quickly
Yes, a LOT of people. There's countless videos on YouTube, especially since the Steam Deck's release.
https://youtu.be/Z5OE6k31i8c
This is gonna be more windows centric as I game on windows, but I do use dxvk so it's probably not going to be that far off.
I5-1135G7, iris xe 80 eu, 16 gb of ram. I got around 40 fps in the benchmark on dx9, 50 fps on dxvk. This was on older Intel arc drivers. Vulkan performance has been consistent on their drivers but there may be some improvement. I was running 1080p medium settings, no anti aliasing and tri-linear as filtering.
I had an old i7 8550u laptop with a Radeon 530 2GB DDR3 graphics card. It ran GTA IV about the same with an older version of dxvk, but it had some performance issues because I couldn't find a higher wattage adapter for it and would throttle.
ALSO TURN OFF SHADOWS. For whatever reason, it's handled by the CPU.
I didn't know you even could run dxvk on windows, what's the reason for doing that?
Way better performance and next to no stutters because of how unoptimised gta 4 pc port was
Lol that is amusing but I suppose it's always the way with old games, modders fix performance issues
Vulkan runs the game better than DirectX 9, I will say that much. Had no issues on Arch with Nvidia
I used dxvk on windows and it was a definite improvement for GTA iv.
Quite the difference, isn't it. DirectX was often really wonky back then
Two things to keep in mind though, I'm on Iris Xe graphics which has poor DX9 performance (it's done entirely in software idk how) and GTA IV is just a really horrible port on PC. It's cpu rendered shadows and just general jank. Early parts of the map run much worse.
Performance increases were mild but noticable. On both my old computer (i7 8550U and a Radeon 530 2 GB DDR3 gpu) and new computer (i5-1135G7 and Iris XE graphics), I got better frametime consistency and a noticable improvement in fps
It's also been a while since I've played GTA IV. I was running older drivers then and there have been major improvements since.
Edit: vulkan performance has been somewhat consistent on Arc but I was using 2017 drivers due to stability issues. I'd probably see a marginal increase running modern drivers using dxvk.
I did. It was fine and about what I expected.
It's not a terribly well optimized game, but that was true on Windows too.
Edit: couple other deets, I'm on a 6600XT and didn't have any visual issues or anything unexpected. Definitely some stutter and I don't remember my settings but it was cranked pretty high. Certainly very playable. I think I used Proton Experimental.
I played it two years ago and ran into slight issues with shadows. The game has the same quirks as it does on Windows with some quick time events being linked to the framerate.
Modding the game on Linux is quite difficult.
i havent played it on linux but on windows atleast this fixes a shit ton of issues with the game
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/GTAIV.EFLC.FusionFix
make sure to cap your framerate to 30 during the helicopter scene in last mission.
I run it on a pretty old PC and it mostly runs fine. I do get audio stuttering sometimes, but I think that might have something to do with having it installed on a HDD instead of an SSD.
