Anyone able to play Star Wars Battlefront 2 on Zorin

Greetings everyone,

I have a simple question: Does anyone play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the new one) on Zorin?

I have seen that it works using Linux on other distros, but I never see anyone using it on Zorin. These last couple weeks I have been trying to get the game to work on Steam to no avail. You can see from https://www.protondb.com/app/1237950?device=pc that many people get the game working using various proton versions and other fixes, but nothing has worked for me so far.

If anyone does play Battlefront 2 could you please provide the setup you use to get it to work? I would really appreciate it.

It's only $4 right now so I'll buy it and see what I can accomplish.

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Hey, thanks! I bought it because it was that cheap too. I hope you have better luck than I did.

Worked for me with no configuration of any kind necessary. I was using Proton Hotfix. Caveats: Shader compile takes FOREVER, but you can see it working before it even launches the EA app. The game itself is... well, $4 felt like a fair price, I'll leave it at that.

Wow, OK. Thank you for letting me know. I wonder what is wrong with my system. I'll just have to keep trying stuff because clearly it can work lol.

Well, which Proton runner are you trying with it, and what's it's behavior when you try to run it?

Perhaps a .deb vs. Flatpak issue? Or video card or driver issue?

It may be playable on Xbox cloud gaming (I do own it on steam but I don't have the space or power on my Zorin Laptop to run it)

I have tried Proton Hotfix, Proton Experimental, GE Proton10-4, Proton 9.0-4, Proton 10.0-1 (beta), Proton 7.0-6, and Proton 6.3-8. Plus, I tried using different launch options people suggested on ProtonDB, but I didn't truly understand what they did.

As for the behavior of the game, I was able to download the EA app just fine, but the main error occurred when launching the game. Most of the time (sometimes other random errors happened, which I assume was from my tinkering) it would try to launch the game, but the game would not open. The EA app opens and then nothing happens. Sometimes the EA app would just go all black and, again, do nothing.

Are you referring to the what installation of Steam I have installed? I downloaded it through Flatpak. I think I read somewhere that the .deb version may work better, is that correct?

Also, I don't think my graphics card would be causing problems; I have a NVIDIA RTX 4090, so it should be able to handle the game. I also have the proper NVIDIA drivers installed and working; in all my other games the graphics card works as intended. However, I am still a little green in all this, so I could be missing something.

When you have installed steam as flatpak you should also install flatseal to grant steam permissions to system and users files.

You can install it by entering

"sudo apt install flatseal"

in terminal.

With the .deb version you don't have this problems with permissions. You can easily install it in terminal with

"sudo apt install steam"

or search for the steam installer at "software"
Please remove the flatpak version before you install the .deb version.

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How to manage Flatpak permissions with Flatseal https://share.google/ziKf3uHAczaUXbwl3