CoH on Linux

[Dumluk Derptroll]

Ello....

Is anyone running CoH on a Linux box? If so, what distro? tks.

[lemming]

I've been running it via Linux on either pop-OS or Mint depending on which system.

This thread is still relevant: 

 

[Psyonico]

I currently run Bazzite on my desktop and CachyOS on my laptop, I've had no problems running City with Fedora or Ubuntu in the past.

 

Basically, install Lutris and run the installer through Lutris and you're golden.

 

I have noticed a performance hit on Linux, however.  When my laptop was on Windows 11 I could run ultra settings, with any Linux distro I have to drop it to recommend.

[mechahamham]

CoH on Linux at my house runs on Endeavour (which is basically a fancy Arch installer) and Mint, which is based on Ubuntu and by extension, Debian. WINE from the Arch repos with no extra configuration will very happily run both the HC Launcher and cityofheroes.exe. I *think* we had to install WINE from WineHQ's PPAs to get it to run correctly on Mint, but again required no configuration beyond that very trustworthy PPA addition.

[mechahamham]

7 hours ago, Psyonico said:

Basically, install Lutris and run the installer through Lutris and you're golden.

 

I've had reasonable luck with Lutris in the past and can recommend it. I don't currently use it because CoH doesn't *have* to have it, and it's really the only thing I'm using WINE for at the moment.

[Curveball]

If you have Steam for Linux, you can run CoH as a non-Steam app. I use Proton Experimental and have zero issues with the game whatsoever (running KDE Neon).