Linux+Steam version is extremely slow to open the first time and won'

[Kallisti23]

Runs fine once it actually starts until I try to close it at which point it freezes Steam. Happens on both Debian and Steam Deck. Comments on the steam forum suggest this has been a problem for at least a year.

Using the windows version+Proton it starts just fine but runs poorly.

 

[Sir Cilician]

I've downloaded the Windows version in the Play page and tried to use Winetricks to run it. For all y'all Linux Kings, Queens, knights-errant and Fools (I'm in the fourth class) let us know what you're using. I don't even know what version of Wine I'm using. I just click on "software manager" and "flatpacks" and find some command line to run, but I'm not having luck with Winetricks. The game will open, but it will freeze on starting a newgame. Lutris? Protontricks? I'm running Linux Mint 22.3. I actually got as far as the prologue up to the chapel on Mint 22.2, but it took a solid minute just to travel each space on the map, and I can't seem to get the game running at all on Mint 22.3 with whatever I downloaded from the general distribution.

EDIT: So... https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Debian-Ubuntu
"Preparation" cat /etc/os-release
"WineHQ repository" (these are copied together and entered into the command line or just use the copy block on the website) sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key -
For my Mint 22, that's "noble".
"Update"
sudo apt update
"Install Wine"
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

And... that gets placed into /opt/wine-stable/share/applications/ and I can run the "Desktop entry" that is in that folder to get Wine onto my harddrive in /home/user/wine.

Winetricks · Wiki · wine / wine · GitLab

Wine development tree

gitlab.winehq.org

"Getting winetricks"
$ cd $HOME/Downloads $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks $ chmod +x winetricks (just use the copy block, and delete the dollar signs seemingly except for $HOME, apparently.

Lastly... I drag the winetricks.sh into the command box and run Winetricks. I'll noodle around in the options and see CoCII runs well.

 

[Sir Cilician]

Performance seems consistent but impassable. I don't know that it will be useful to poast what the terminal displayed during my runs, but those are consistent as well. The issue is that the problems I'm having are probably way too local, to my machine, to be useful. I can't open the Powers tab, the game freezes, and the game also freezes as I enter combat in the tutorial with those first cultists. On a previous installation, I removed my wine prefix, I couldn't get into the save screen but that's not an issue now, and I also could not get past the "special talents" page in creation, but again not an issue now.