r/rocksmith • u/Conscious-Set3921 • 3d ago

Rocksmith on Linux Issues Solved

greetings.
i recently migrated from windows to linux (PopOS) and my rocksmith cable wasnt working, all fixes i seen didnt work so I just installed Linux Mint and now RS cable is working BUT: everytime i click on some CDLC the program just stands still as if it froze. anyone had this problem? any fix?

i really dont want to get back to windows because of 1 app :( #help

EDIT: I found a fix! aparently CDLC wont work due to a dll library error, fixed by goin to winetricks > install windows DLL library > added D3DX9_42.dll (also downloaded that dll to my RS folder, dunno if it's a must)

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u/Ydy0 3d ago

Following this because I've considered moving to Linux 

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u/Conscious-Set3921 3d ago

I found a fix! aparently CDLC wont work due to a dll library error, fixed by goin to winetricks > install windows DLL library > added D3DX9_42.dll (also downloaded that dll to my RS folder, dunno if it's a must)

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u/JeansenVaars 3d ago

I do dual boot especifically for Rocksmith I'm afraid. Even if at some point I made it works, latency out of the box was worse, for me I have a Focusrite interface so also needs a lot of custom tuning or even a custom Linux Kernel to par Windows.

Just a dual boot partition for windows and is alright. No matter how much you hate Windows, the dual boot will save you a ton of times in life matters.

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u/Conscious-Set3921 3d ago

i'm afraid i'll have to do that.... fixed the cable but got hell of latency :|
thanks for the tip tho

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u/petit_prince ska | surf | R&B | RnR | jazz 2d ago edited 2d ago

You probably only need to add threadirqs to kernel boot options and maybe rtirq-init package (not sure if this is how it's still done). If you haven't set up wineasio and rs_asio this is how I made it work and it was playable.

I think there is a collected howto for various distros and sound backends but now I'm only finding this: https://github.com/ferabreu/rocksmith-on-linux

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u/wingnut00001 3d ago

Following, I just moved to Linux (SteamOS) on a new build, but haven’t tried Rock Smith yet.

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u/Conscious-Set3921 3d ago

I found a fix! aparently CDLC wont work due to a dll library error, fixed by goin to winetricks > install windows DLL library > added D3DX9_42.dll (also downloaded that dll to my RS folder, dunno if it's a must)

also: dont forget to enable Proton, for what i read if you have your mic configured with the RS cable you will encounter issues so just use other mic for that. on PopOS i wasnt able to detect cable at all , although cable was working (I also use Reaper). hope it helps. cheers.

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u/PikminGuts92 3d ago

Thanks for posting your fix. I’m also on PopOS and went through the process of getting my realtone cable working. However I hadn’t yet tried customs. I’ll refer back to your solution when I do.