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epixinvites

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

I'm using Steam, and according to protondb (https://www.protondb.com/app/7940) one user stated that it works on Arch Linux with Proton 5.0-10. I switched to Proton 5.0-10, now I'm greeted to install this anticheat and DirectX before inevitably crashing.
Does anyone here know how to get CoD 4 working on Arch? Thanks

V1del

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

What's your hardware and what actual errors do you get, check output from a terminal run and post it. Also the proton result you refer to is from a year ago. For an actively maintained and updated game this might very well not mean anything and it's possible that compat with that proton version broke with an update.

epixinvites

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

The thing is I don't even know what the errors are or how to launch it, like CS:GO I could debug it 'cause I could like run the ./csgo.sh but for this game, there isn't even a launch script, so I have no idea which .exe to run or how.

V1del

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

Run steam in a terminal, launch game, post output in

[code]code tags[/code]

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Last edited by V1del (2021-07-02 13:59:32)

epixinvites

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

Here is the entire log

While launching Singleplayer:
https://pastebin.com/wcv9vmqv

While launching Multiplayer:
https://pastebin.com/Vm3x8hni

Proton version 5.0-10

Last edited by epixinvites (2021-07-02 14:52:42)

V1del

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

If you have issues like these you probably don't want to wrap a firejail around it further complicating things.

It can't initialize Vulkan, what's your hardware? Are the relevant Vulkan libraries installed? I see mention of an intel device, that will at least mandate vulkan-intel and lib32-vulkan-intel, but what HW is this exactly?

epixinvites

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

Ok, I removed firejail, still doesn't work.

Here is my hardware:
CPU: Intel i5-8250U (8) @ 3.400GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620

Hm, seems that lib32-vulkan-intel wasn't installed...

Last edited by epixinvites (2021-07-03 00:52:30)

V1del

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Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare not working on Arch Linux

And does it at least start now? Or other error messages? Something you can try if this isn't sufficient to initialize Vulkan is checking if switching to wined3d/OpenGL helps by adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to the launch options in Steam preferences.