I feel like I'm 14 again playing the latest Monkey Island game from the brilliant Ron Gilbert. Every evening after the wee one sleeps, I go back to the world of Monkey Island. Playing it slowly, savouring the atmosphere, the characters, the humour, the music, the puzzles. May it never end.
To get Return to Monkey Island to run on Linux
After installing RtMI through Steam and selecting to use experimental Proton to run it, it started up just fine with music and all, but no graphics. The window was just black. Running the game fullscreen or windowed made no difference. Helpful folks on the Steam forums suggested different workarounds, one of worked for me. It involved two things: 1) using Proton tricks and switching to DirectX rendering:
First off, I installed protontricks:
# pacman -Sy chaotic-aur/protontricks-git
Then, I applied a tweak for the game:
$ protontricks 2060130 d3dcompiler_47
Finally, I instructed Proton to use DirectX for rendering instead of Vulkan:
$ mkdir -p "~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2060130/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Terrible\ Toybox/Return\ to\ Monkey\ Island/"
$ echo 'renderer: "directx"' > "~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2060130/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Terrible\ Toybox/Return\ to\ Monkey\ Island/Prefs.json"
I also did what proton suggested when running it, hopefully that'll make the graphics run smoothly. I don't actually know if this made a difference, but running the game (admittedly with reduced resolution) gives a super smooth experience:
# sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
