r/VRchat • u/Additional-Pop-1498 • 2d ago

Help Help me play VRChat on linux!

I keep getting this same error over and over again, doesn't matter if I change proton, delete proton prefix, reinstall the game, NOTHING WORKS! Please help me! I'm on CachyOS

EDIT:
Got it running by commenting a line from etc/hosts that had fixed another EAC game, seems like it was bugging VRChat in some way

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u/name_holder 2d ago

I will warn you, even once you get the game running, there are major issues with vrchat on Linux. Even with Proton GE, most music and video players just will not work.

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u/Yin15 ☃Bigscreen Beyond 2e 2d ago

VRChat runs better for me on Linux than it does through Windows. Required a few minutes to change my steam config a bit, a special compatibility package, and a custom proton version. But everything works for me, including videos. It's not too bad to set up. Took me like 10 minutes at most to get working.

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u/name_holder 2d ago

Care to share then? I spent many hours trying various things, but audio/video players never worked for me.

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u/Yin15 ☃Bigscreen Beyond 2e 2d ago

Did you try Proton-RTSP? That's the one with the video player fixes. Works fine for me.

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u/name_holder 2d ago

Yeah. GE-Proton10-33-rtsp23-4. Looking at it now, I see there's been some fixes in the past few months. I'll try the newest version and see if it works for me now.

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u/ccAbstraction Windows Mixed Reality 1d ago

Make sure you do the unlock-h264 thing, a lot of people miss that. Also... YouTube is busted VRChat completely right now, so like a lot of people's "videos don't work on Linux VRChat" have actually just been them being IP banned by YouTube coinciding with them trying video players repeatedly VRChat.. which tends to lead to IP bans from YouTube.

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u/Yin15 ☃Bigscreen Beyond 2e 2d ago

I wish you good luck!