Genshin impact on linux mint
This is the official community for Genshin Impact (原神), the latest open-world action RPG from HoYoverse. The game features a massive, gorgeous map, an elaborate elemental combat system, engaging storyline & characters, co-op game mode, soothing soundtrack, and much more for you to explore!
I know Genshin impact «isn’t supported» on Linux, but Linux gamers have been playing unsupported games for many years and Genshin Impact is no exception to this. A few weeks ago some users on playonlinux discovered a hack to disable the anti-cheat by changing about a few instructions in the UnityPlayer.dll. This worked for some time but then miHoYo got wise to the trick and started integrity checking the files while loading the game bricking us all from the game with error code 31-4302.
Many of you may be saying to just use windows. The problem with this is simply most of us don’t want to, it’d be like asking you to use a mac. or possibly «why don’t you play on your phone» well, i do I’d just rather not
some of you may have wondered why «isn’t supported» is in quotation marks this is because android is Linux the game can run on android. not only this but unity also supports compiling to for a Linux target the only obstacle then is anti-cheat — i am not a kernel programmer nor am i a game developer but i understand how intricate these things can be and can understand that miHoYo creating an anti-cheat specifically for Linux is out of the question but i hope that this post can at least get this topic some attention, I’m sure there are some kernel devs open to the idea especially if it opens many games to the Linux market
This may have been quite rambley on quite a technical issue, but i thank you for reading this far.
How to install and run Genshin Impact on Linux?
Genshin Impact is a free-to-play, open-world action role-playing video game developed by miHoYo. The game allows the player to control one of four interchangeable characters in a party. Players can switch between characters quickly during combat, this allows them to use several different combinations of skills and attacks.
The Genshin Impact game is available for Android and Windows but it is not natively available for Linux.
In this article, I will discuss how to install and run Genshin Impact on Linux operating system.
Prerequisites
To install and run Genshin Impact on Linux you should have –
- Access to a user account with superuser privileges to download and install the required packages.
- The latest version of Wine is installed and configured on your system.
System requirements
The minimum configuration required to play Genshin Impact is –
>>>Minimum configuration:
Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
Graphics card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 1030 and higher or equivalent
Storage: Please reserve 30 GB of space
Install Lutris on Linux
Lutris is a free and open-source gaming platform for Linux. It provides one-click installation for games available on its website and also integrates with the Steam website.
Install Lutris on Ubuntu/LinuxMint/Pop!_OS
You can install Lutris by adding PPA to your system. Use the given commands to add PPA and install Lutris on Ubuntu and its derivatives.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris
RHEL/CentOS/Fedora: Install Lutris
You can use the given command to install Lutris on RHEL/CentOS.
sudo dnf install lutris-*.el8.x86_64.rpm
If you are using Fedora Linux then use –
Install Lutris in Arch Linux/Manjaro
By using the given command you can install Lutris on Arch Linux or Manjaro.
For installing Lutris on other distributions you can use visit the Lutris download page.
Install Genshin Impact on Linux
After installing the Lutris game manager on your system. Open a browser and go to the official website of lutris and click on install as it is given in the image below.
Next, you will see a pop-up click on Open Link this will open the application with Lutris as you can see in the image below. Here click on Install.
In the next window, you will be asked to Select installation directory you can browse and select the directory after selecting click on Install.
This may ask you to download some files every time click on Continue to download these files.
Once the download of these files is completed it will display to accept the license agreement and install Genshin Impact. Click on Install Now as given in the image below.
Once the installation is completed you can click on Run to start the game.
Conclusion
I hope you have successfully installed this game on your Linux system. Now if you have a query then write us in the comments below.
Genshin Impact
This script uses a patch that is not supported by MiHoYo, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You will need root rights to install this patch as it will modify /etc/hosts system file.
You will need to find, edit, and run the patch manually — outside of Lutris — after the game update has finished.
PATCH IS NOT APPLIED BY DEFAULT. To apply or revert it, right-click on the game icon/banner and select «execute script» —> https://imgur.com/D4jDdPX
This script installer needs xdelta3, xterm, zenity binaries.
If the install freezes during download, kill the «launcher.exe» process. Then launch the game from Lutris and choose option 2 in the menu «Update Genshin Impact». Once downloading and installing are completed, close the game, patch the game, start the game and choose option 1 in the menu.
As of 4/17/2023 Genshin Impact works on clean installation without any workarounds required. This installer exists for that purpose.
You already installed Genshin Impact with Lutris and just need to update your current install with latest patch.
Please follow this steps:
1) execute this script, it will install updated patch
2) update Genshin Impact to latest version (option 2) but do not launch it
3) apply new patch
To apply or revert patch, right-click on the game icon/banner and select «execute script» —> https://imgur.com/D4jDdPX
Genshin Impact is a free-to-play, open-world action role-playing gacha video game developed by miHoYo. The game features an anime-style open-world environment and an action-based battle system using elemental magic and character-switching. The game is free-to-play and is monetized through gacha game mechanics through which players can obtain new characters and weapons. The base game is expanded regularly through patches using the games as a service model.
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Combat, Fantasy, Open World
- Platform: Android, Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation 4, Sony PlayStation 5, Windows
- Website: genshin.hoyoverse.com
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