TL;DR: The Soundize mod for GTA San Andreas (which uses FMOD) won’t work under Proton — FMOD fails to load sound banks. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but the game just freezes. Looking for advice or anyone who’s managed to get it running.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been stuck on this for a few days now and I’m completely out of ideas. I have a fully modded GTA San Andreas setup that runs perfectly under Proton — until I add the Soundize mod. As soon as I put it into modloader, the game just freezes on launch.

From what I can gather from the Proton logs, the FMOD server (the core part of the mod) fails to load the sound banks.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Installed various dependencies into the prefix (via protontricks)
• Installed VCRUN 2010–2019
• Tried installing .NET 4.5 (Proton blocks it, saying a newer version is already installed)
• Installed LavFilters, WMP, AllCodecs, etc.
• Some of these made the mod partially work, but with massive FPS drops
• Tried adding lib32 GStreamer plugins on Arch (except bad and ugly, since they wouldn’t compile)

No luck so far.

If anyone has experience getting FMOD-based mods or Soundize specifically working with Proton, or knows how to properly set up the prefix for it, I’d really appreciate your help or any pointers.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi all-

On Fedora42, I have installed SteamTinkerLaunch via ProtonUp-QT. My game launches via SteamTinkerLaunch successfully, however the standard repos listed in ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/shaders don't actually download.

- The repos show up under steamtinkerlaunch "Shader Repos" and are checked. However under "Game Shaders" I only see AstrayFX as it hasn't downloaded any of the provided repos in the list.

- ReShade itself is selected to Install under Game Menu, and it does download successfully to ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/reshade/5.4.2 as expected.

- Steamtinkerlaunch is selected as the Compatibility Tool for the game. I launch the game and can access it via Steamtinkerlaunch.

- I have all Hard Dependencies installed. Hard Dependencies seem to check out ok when I run which [dependency](see snippet below from Konsole)

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- Lastly - if I launch the game and press HOME, I don't see the ReShade menu either. But, the symlinks from the game folder -> the source steamtinkerlaunch/reshade folder appear as expected.

user@hostname:~$ which awk
/usr/bin/awk
user@hostname:~$ which bash
/usr/bin/bash
user@hostname:~$ which git
/usr/bin/git
user@hostname:~$ which make
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user@hostname:~$ which pgrep
/usr/bin/pgrep
user@hostname:~$ which unzip
/usr/bin/unzip
user@hostname:~$ which wget
/usr/bin/wget
user@hostname:~$ which xdotool
/usr/bin/xdotool
user@hostname:~$ which xprop
/usr/bin/xprop
user@hostname:~$ which xrandr
/usr/bin/xrandr
user@hostname:~$ which xxd
/usr/bin/xxd
user@hostname:~$ which xwininfo
/usr/bin/xwininfo
user@hostname:~$ which yad
/usr/bin/yad

I've scoured the wiki for common troubleshooting issues and feel like I've covered all steps so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Many thanks for any insight. If I can provide any more useful info please let me know.

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