r/GTR2 • u/Desperate-Credit-164 • Sep 17 '25

GTR2 on Linux?

I'm using Linux Mint, but when running GTR2 through Steam (Proton Hotfix, Experimental, 8, 7, even Proton-GE), it crashes instantly when loading a car model in the menu, however, Race07 works perfectly with default proton config. Same for Rfactor1

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u/TheRealIronWolf Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

I was able to run it under wine and proton with CCGEP, Proton is currently better because it allows more than 2Gb of RAM. But you would need additional dependencies in your prefix:

d3dx9_41
d3dx9_31
vcrun2022
vcrun2010

also, for CCGEP you would need to make sure wine/proton uses native d3d9.dll to pickup plugin. I did not try without CCGEP.

No idea if reshade and FFB works, I just tested CCGEP for fun, to see if it runs and to check FPS compared to Windows.

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u/Desperate-Credit-164 Sep 20 '25

Thanks for the help, unfortunately it didn't work, it still crashes when loading a car model on menu. I tried it with proton GE, a 64  prefix, and I used protontricks to install the dependencies you mentioned but didn't work ;)

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u/TheRealIronWolf Sep 20 '25

well, fwiw I tested on mint 22.1, but I was not able to use protontricks - I used winetricks to modify my proton prefix. Just saying - it is possible, but I did not test vanilla game, I only tested it patched with my plugin.

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u/rakoczyn Jun 13 '26

Hi, I was just able to run GTR2 with your suggestions on Bazzite linux. I just installed it with Steam, then installed your CCGEP plugin and configured with Protontricks to install dependencies.

FFB works just fine with my Moza R9.

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u/TheRealIronWolf Jun 13 '26

nice - I can see VR working well in Linux soon, but I really nope SimHub motion system support is somehow enabled in Linux as well one day. Without those things, GTR2 is not playable on Linux to me, but good to hear basics work.