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¶

Info

Enable multilib in /etc/pacman.conf first by uncommenting:

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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
vulkaninfo | less

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¶

paru -S proton-ge-custom

Configure Lutris¶

Preferences > Runners > Wine

Select proton-ge-custom.

Mount the downloaded iso¶

sudo mount -o loop Grand\ Theft\ Auto\ \(GTA\)\ San\ Andreas-HOODLUM/hlm-gtasa.iso /mnt

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.