Linux Gaming @lemmy.world kariboka @bolha.forum 1 yr. ago

Have someone here tried MTG arena on Arch based distro?

I am on Garuda and think I am gonna try it. What is your mileage?

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Installed in the last week. Ran into an issue starting the game on EndeavourOS using Lutris without steam but quickly resolved it by deleting some of the game files so it forced a redownload.

The graphics looked fine to me using the AMD 7900 XTX in all of the menus but when I got into a match most UI elements and cards were blacked out. Switching from "ultra" to any other graphic preset fixed the colors for me.

I haven't tried using Steam or Proton for Arena
- I can't install it, tried the 3 available versions on Lutris and none worked. How did you do?
  
  Can't install how? What is the error? There is a log in Lutris.
I used to play it quite a bit, it worked fine.
I played in manjaro, I just used gamescope to force full screen on my ultrawide, but this support does not even existe on windows so just bônus points
- Was it long ago? I can't finish the install in Lutris :/
  
  Ok, there are 3 versions you can choose when you install, the "latest modern" worked like a charm here, the first one in the list. The other two fail to me as well.
  
  E que porra é essa de bolha.forum aí? De onde vcs vieram?
  
  Now you said I remember having problems, I will try to install here and see what it does.
The steam version installed and ran like any other game for me on vanilla arch as well as endeavorOS
- after some tinkering with proton I got it to work :)
I play mtga often on Debian-based. Wouldn't expect arch to be different.
- I am having trouble installing with Lutris, Do you remember how did you install it?
  
  Yeah, I install all of my Lutris games "manually". The process goes something like this:
  
  Prerequisites
  
  Download the MTGA installer
  
  Create a directory where you want the MTGA wine prefix to live (I use /home/my_username/Games/mtg/)
  
  In Lutris, press + to add a new game, and set the following:
  
  Name: "Magic The Gathering Arena"
  
  Runner: Wine
  
  Click Game Options, set the following:
  
  Executable: /path/to/MTGAInstaller.exe
  
  Wine prefix: /path/to/your/wine/prefix/location/ (As I mentioned above, I use /home/my_username/Games/mtg/)
  
  Click Save
  
  Optional, if the game art doesn't auto-populate:
  
  Click Lutris under "Sources" on the left -> Community Installers
  
  Search for "magic arena", and wait for results to populate (the search downloads the art)
  
  Exit the community installer section
  
  Click Play in Lutris
  
  From here it should set up the Wine prefix and install the game. Once that is done then quit the game (if it auto-launches).
  
  Set Lutris to the game's launch executable: right-click on the MTGA icon -> Configure -> Game Options
  
  Executable: /installed/path/to/MTGALauncher.exe (for me it is /home/my_username/Games/mtg/drive_c/Program Files/Wizards of the Coast/MTGA/MTGALauncher/MTGALauncher.exe)
  
  Click Save and you should be good to go!
  
  Good luck! If the game doesn't work following these instructions then you can try running with different versions of Wine (I'm using lutris-GE-Proton8-x86_64). And if it still doesn't work then I'd expect your issue might be with your GPU drivers.
I've played it on a Steam Deck. So it does work for arch based SteamOS.
- It worked in my garuda! it is great btw.
Yes, I would play Arena all the time on Manjaro.

I use the Lutris version. Occasionally the entire thing needs to be redownloaded from scratch, but that's it.

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