Help getting started, not sure how to proceed

[khaytsus]

I hate writing an issue for this, but I can't find any other way to ask or contact you, so here goes. First off, greatly appreciate this launcher, I've been a Tomb Raider fan since TR1's release and I watch a lot of streamers play TRLEs and would really like to be able to, but I'm 100% Linux and all the info online on how to get it working was confusing and conflicting, and then I found your launcher which looks great but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I am running Fedora 42, following the repo readme I was able to compile without much issue, had a little confusion with tombll.db but realized I missed running tombll_manage_data.py but that really only created an empty tombll.db file, but then the build/install would proceed.

Launcher launches, wasn't quite sure what to change on the Setup page so I just saved it, but not sure where to proceed from here. The Levels page is completely empty, I was assuming it would show something from TLRE.net or perhaps input a URL/ID and download it, something. Am I missing something here (I'm sure I am)

Also, I am sure that I've not done other required things, like I'm lost on umu run, proton, etc.. I installed umu-launcher from their github releases, but not really sure what to do with it beyond that.

I don't have any of the classic games installed on this machine via WINE etc, I've always played them in the past using PSX emulation and in recent years, the Remastered versions via Steam. What I'd really love to do, however, is play some TRLE's.

Thank you, sorry for the "HOW DO I DO EVERYTHING" question :/

[noisecode3]

You are gonna need to use this dgvoodo2 for some of them, I tried playing some with GE-Proton10-27.
Read about umu-launcher environment variables, so you set it to use an downloaded proton and dgvoodoo2 for the trle's.
One is global for all new you download, one is per level you can set some of the to use dgvoodoo2, you have copy the ddraw.dll and dgVoodoo.conf into the level directory you find them in ~/.local/share/TombRaiderLinuxLauncher. On the setup tab there is a little widget with a LCD Number. That number is where you're files for that trle is at.
Launching the classic games is not implemented right now. It was for some time now I changed everything.

When you use wine and proton a lot and sometimes it crashes with dgvoodoo2, rebooting will make it work again.
If you play some TR3 the config file can get messed up you need to just use the rm command on the config.txt file in there.
TR2 and TR4 you need to override winmm sometimes, mostly TR2.

You can get rid of the empty tombll.db that is for testing. cd into database and run the get_trle.sh or use the link and place the file in the database directory.

https://mega.nz/file/2MESHZSa#9J6VF5FlOzc-FZLjdxi-4wB-fio8N3nEZK2Fp8Nn4z4

As for now use something like antimicrox for the controller.

[khaytsus]

Sorry I never responded, I chewed on this for a while and piddled, but never got much further than the basics.. I did get your GUI to show games, but they never would download or launch? I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. umu-run works for TEN or TRX games, I haven't had a lot of luck with older TRLEs though. I have written down your suggestions here, and probably will make some attempt to get some tomb4.exe games running; none of those work directly, probably need the dgvoodoo2 etc. Plenty of TEN or TRX levels to enjoy until I circle back though :) Thank you for the info!

[noisecode3]

but they never would download or launch?

why is that did you get an error when clicking download?

I haven't had a lot of luck with older TRLEs though

they all more or less work BUT you can hit some some ruff dead ends.
So do get protonGE

clear youre prefix with rm -fr

follow this
you can use dxwrapper dd7to9 for TR3
and DDrawCompat for TR4 it will just fix the famous "light bug", its not that good for Tomb Raider yet.

You do not need dgVoodoo but the game is heavy on CPU and RAM Read/Write, it uses old API new card is not optimized for anymore. It heavy on calling fixed functions states back and forth from CPU to GPU in a really really bad way for modern systems.

You have probably downloaded them but they dont run cus you set it up to crash
You need to run the setup first time, and run it from terminal to check the log
You'll find umu output from running from the terminal.

[noisecode3]

Get tomb4.exe working, you have the most fun once to play there
I just run them like this, on AMD GPU I have no found anyone that do not work but a little laggy still even with dgvoodoo2, some can be. Small lag but playable.

There is more environment variables you can use to get even more performance I guess

PROTONPATH="~/Games/Proton/GE-Proton10-30" WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw=n" DXVK_HUD="compiler,fps" MESA_SHADER_CACHE="1"