Need help installing Mesa Git for Cyberpunk 2077

[forumperson]

Update: @philm has tested and uploaded mesa-git to the official repos (No need to use AUR now). If you get that, installation seems to go fine and Cyberpunk 2077 should work! Though it is worth making a system backup with Timeshift first and also noting down what gets uninstalled in the process so you can make sure it gets reinstalled later should you wish to go back to Mesa stable.

On my system it was:

mesa
mesa-demos
mesa-vdpau
lib32-libva-mesa-driver
lib32-mesa
lib32-mesa-demos
lib32-mesa-vdpau
libva-mesa-driver
lib32-vulkan-intel
lib32-vulkan-radeon
vulkan-intel
vulkan-radeon

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Original post:

Valve have just updated Proton to 5.13-4 which enables Cyberpunk 2077 to run on AMD GPUs

ValveSoftware/Proton

However, you also need Mesa-git drivers to do so. Though I’m not sure which version exactly. Anyway, it seems there are some mesa-git drivers in the AUR (Hopefully recent enough ones) so I’m just wondering how to go about installing them. Do I need to uninstall my existing Mesa things or can they stay? What’s the process?

The game releases in an hour and a half so I’m hoping I can play it

Thanks!

[pobrn]

When you try to build mesa-git, the normal mesa package will be removed automatically. You can run pamac build mesa-git and it should take care of everything.

[Yochanan]

@pobrn

You can run pamac build mesa-git and it should take care of everything

… or not:

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[gfunk]

thanks for the quick quote @Yochanan just saved someones life… sorry was meant to repost that guide from the old forums ages ago, sorry did not see this thread in latest so posted a separate one

Cyberpunk 2077 and mesa-git

Hi guys As per the news today, if you have an AMD card and use the mesa-git package you can play Cyberpunk on steam via proton !! BE CAREFUL WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL MESA-GIT !!! Please see this guide I have published on the best way to swap to the git version of Mesa Recommended: -take a damn backup first https://www.fossmint.com/backup-restore-linux-with-timeshift/ Mesa-Git guide: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-amd-radeon-mesa-aco-graphics-drivers/42199 If you can wait, the updates …

[pobrn]

Indeed, you’re right, it’ll take care of installing mesa-git, but it seems that’s not enough. Interestingly, pamac does not try to remove everything that depends on mesa.

[forumperson]

Thanks for the help!

So just to be clear, it’s not possible for me to do this via the GUI Package Manager Pamac and I instead have to use Yay?

[philm]

Pamac supports it also via GUI. Go to settings, enable AUR support and search for mesa-git. However we might add mesa-git package tomorrow to our repositories.

[forumperson]

Yes I have already enabled AUR in Pamac and have installed some AUR stuff with it before I can see mesa-git in there but I’m just concerned about Pamac causing some kind of mess when switching back and forth between the default Mesa stuff and mesa-git. I only say this because others have mentioned it and said to use ‘Yay’ to do it. Cheers!

[gfunk]

hey man, as per the other thread I installed mesa-git and my distro didnt blow up, the game works too. Just take a backup before you start though just in case

[forumperson]

Yes I have replied to you there already I’ve been making some system snapshots with Timeshift to be safe. Seems to be OK so far though…