GTA San Andreas on Arch Linux
Get the iso¶
Find the latest best place to torrent from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/all_purpose/
I can confirm GTA-San-Andreas-HOODLUM-Plus-SAMP-Multiplayer from https://1337x.to works.
Install Lutris¶
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Enable multilib in /etc/pacman.conf first by uncommenting:
How to install lutris instructions were clearly laid out by İbrahim Korucuoğlu at https://www.siberoloji.com/how-to-install-and-use-lutris-on-arch-linux. I'm just reproducing the steps here:
sudo pacman -S mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon
# For Nvidia
# sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
# For Intel
# sudo pacman -S mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel
# For AMD
sudo pacman -S mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon
sudo pacman -S vulkan-tools
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sudo pacman -S lutris
sudo pacman -S wine wine-gecko wine-mono
sudo pacman -S lib32-gnutls lib32-libldap lib32-mpg123 lib32-openal lib32-v4l-utils lib32-libpulse lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libxcomposite lib32-libxinerama lib32-ncurses lib32-libxml2 lib32-freetype2 lib32-libpng lib32-sdl2
sudo pacman -S winetricks
paru -S dxvk-bin
Install proton-ce-custom from aur¶
Configure Lutris¶
Update 2025-05-25
I went with proton-ge-custom because of the recommendation that appeared in lutris. But system
wine had better performance and significantly faster startup time. You can skip this section if
you go with.
Preferences > Runners > Wine
Select proton-ge-custom.
Mount the downloaded iso¶
Visit https://lutris.net/games/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/ and press the Install button. This will open
some dialog in Lutris. Go through the steps and point to the /mnt/setup.exe file.
Hit yes and proceed through the install. It will take a while. You'll know when
its done, the red Abort button will go away and it will show Success.
Chromium Flags¶
If you're on wayland you might want to configure chrome to use xorg/xwayland. There seems to be some issue switching between Lutris (that uses xorg backend) and chrome on wayland.