Hello everyone,

I am crossposting this from /c/linux_gaming

I wanted to write a guide on how to play Anomaly on Linux which works as of 19th November 2023.

I use Arch with KDE plasma (and I also tested it with Xfce4) and it works perfectly fine, it even seems to work on Wayland session but I haven’t done extensive testing. It should work for any distro as long as it has what you need. So here it goes.

Step 0: Requirements

You’ll need to have Steam, Protontricks, and obviously the game files downloaded from the official sources

Step 1: Extract the game files

You can put them wherever you want, I personally chose ~/Games/Anomaly/. Essentially put the “.7z” files wherever and extract them, I do this with this terminal command:

7z x Anomaly-1.5.1.7z

and then

7z x Anomaly-1.5.1-to-1.5.2-Update.7z

Make sure to overwrite anything when extracting the 1.5.2 patch

Step 2: Add the game to steam

Open up steam, on the top right go to games > Add a non-Steam game > Browse and then navigate to and select the .exe file, then Add program.

Step 3: Set up Steam compatibility layer

On your Steam library Right click the Anomaly game and go to Properties > Compatibility and click Force the use of a specific compatibility layer and select whichever proton version you prefer. I went with Proton experimental and it works fine. After all of this is done, run it once and wait for it to crash.

Step 4: Protontricks compatibility

Now open up protontricks, I’ll use the GUI via running:

protontricks --gui

Then, select the Anomaly game > Default profile > Install DLL and you’ll want to select these:

  • d3dcompiler_43
  • d3dcompiler_47
  • d3dx10
  • d3dx11_43
  • d3dx9
  • d3dx9_43

Let it install everything then close it and launch the game via steam. You’re set to go.

  • bec@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It also works with Lutris, simple archive extraction in your preferred directory, overwrite with 1.5.2, add AnomalyLauncher to Lutris and pick wine-ge-8-24, working directory and wine prefixes in the parent directory of AnomalyLauncher, and the game launches without issues (sometimes I get the prompt that it’s not responding asking if I want to kill it or wait, I simply wait and a few seconds later game starts).

    Now, GAMMA is a bit of a pain, and I’m still trying to make it work lol

    edit: managed to! Though I had to cheat and run the GAMMA installer in Win (the Python, reverse-engineered one made to work in Linux would always get stuck when downloading one mod because of a CRC mismatch or something similar) and then move everything to my Linux drive. Only slight issue is that, for some reason, ModOrganizer doesn’t actually start the game (or AnomalyLauncher) when I click on Play; I have to click Play, wait a couple seconds and then close MO with the cross, at THIS point I get a window saying “compilin vfc” or something like that, and then the game slowly (very slowly, talking a couple of minutes) launches. No issues in-game though. Also when I quit Anomaly for some reason Lutris doesn’t stop counting playtime, I have to also press on Stop in Lutris for it to actually stop