[GUIDE] Playing on Linux (Debian 12)

[JustanerdFML]

Hey, just a little hint if youre playing on Linux (Steam):
System informations:

Debian 12
Kernel: 6.12.27+bpo-amd64
mesa-vulkan-drivers: 25.0.4-1~bpo12+1
Proton-GE: 10-3

For your SkyrimTogether.exe to be able to access your Game Directory set it up as following:

After Setting copying in required Mod Files like SKSE and SkyrimTogether Files into Directory: Steam Common -> Skyrim Special Edition
Adding non Steam Game (SkyrimTogether.exe):

Target:
"/path_to_your/steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim Special Edition/Data/SkyrimTogetherReborn/SkyrimTogether.exe"

Start in:
/path_to_your/steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim Special Edition/Data/SkyrimTogetherReborn/

Launch options:
STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/path_to_your/games/steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830" %command%

last step Launch Options is most important so it will use your Proton Prefix. Else its not able to access gamefiles like saves and settings and stuff.

From what i tested it works as expected. Ofc some minor and major bugs but nothing gamebreaking occured so far. At least nothing i saw was related to using linux.

Might help someone Setting it up on linux and looking for a solution.
Might worth pinning or adding to your wiki/guide. Anyway thanks for your great work on this project :)

[pip-delorean]

Thanks for the guide, wish I'd found this a few hours ago. I independently came to the same method for getting this to work on Arch Linux w/ GNOME and Hyprland. Unfortunately sometimes the STR UI completely breaks for me (see attached). Running the game in windowed mode seems to fix it, so maybe it has something to do with the ultrawide 3440x1440 resolution. Aside from that it seems to all work like a charm. Curious about your DE/Display Server and game resolution?

P.S. You can use the stellar mod loader on Linux and it seems to work great

P.P.S. You can also use protontricks-launch --appid 489830 <path/to/SkyrimTogether.exe> in a terminal instead of adding a non-steam game, that works for me as well.

[pip-delorean]

Just a quick follow up, I tested with several different resolutions, both through the Skyrim Launcher options and scaling the monitor's resolution manually. The only resolution that produced that tearing was 3440x1440. Every other resolution I tried worked fine. I'm not sure if this is an issue with STR UI or Proton, I don't have a Windows machine to test with :)

Just in case anyone else runs into this problem.

[JustanerdFML]

Seems like a driver/rendering related issue. What kind of Graphicscard/Driver/Kernel are you using?
My 7900 xtx with mesa-vulkan works flawelessly. So if youre using a NVIDIA GPU it might be worth digging into similar driver issues and workarounds. I'm running it on 1440p. Did you try rendering it at a lower resolution then 4k? Did you try changing other graphic settings like Antialising and stuff? Does it behave similar?
From other games I fixed some issues by overriding some .dll with native windows/gameassociated .dlls Might be worth also taking a look into that

[Furrior]

When I launch with protontricks I seem to not have dxvk working, so get a lot of visiual bugs.

A much simpler way that doesnt require fucking around with buggy protontricks: set game's launch options in steam to
eval $(echo "%command%" | sed 's#SkyrimSELauncher.exe#Data/SkyrimTogetherReborn/SkyrimTogether.exe#').

[miredirex]

Consider contributing a .md page to https://github.com/tiltedphoques/gitbook-wiki if you have time