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  • This game is buggy on Windows, moreso on Linux.

    I get memory leaks when playing for longer than an hour. My pc has 48gb of memory, and i’ve caught gw2.exe taking over 10gb by itself after a long session. This has happened to me on multiple distros and machines. If you let it continue it eventually crashes the game

    That said, it’s pretty playable. You can just reboot your pc when you are done.

    You should try to figure out what’s going on with Ubuntu. Maybe try a different proton version, or try using proton-GE. You could also look at Lutris and either use that or copy the relevant flags they are using to your launch options in Steam.

    I play (not often) on Fedora just using steam. My gpu is AMD. No big issues except the memory leak.

    It also very well could still be a driver issue. Driver installation is a bit different on Linux vs Windows, perhaps something wasnt enabled or configured properly.








  • Sorry to be off-topic but I’m curious:

    How/why do people use proton-ge?

    Are you using it standalone? Through Lutris or Steam? Something else?

    What are the situations you’d need it over vanilla proton? Do you keep both vanilla and ge installed?

    Also, do improvements generally get added to vanilla, or is ge an increasingly-divergent fork?

    I’ve been gaming primarily on Linux for over a decade and since it’s been an option I’ve used proton on steam extensively, but I’ve never tried ge




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