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Red's-Guide-on-Installing-G.A.M.M.A.-on-Linux

Red's guide on Installing G.A.M.M.A. (Anomaly modpack) on Linux.

Alternative instalation guide by DravenusRex (older): https://github.com/DravenusRex/stalker-gamma-linux-guide

Installation Guide

Video-companion: youtube-guide

!!! This guide assumes that you have solid general understanding of CLI and how to install/fix stuff on your system. If you need more hand-holding - refer to the video guide.

1 - Bottles (Source: usebottles.com)

  • 1.1 - Install Flatpak.
  • 1.2 - Install Bottles with flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles
  • 1.3 - Run (Verify it) with flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles
  • 1.4 - Give Bottles access to filesystem with sudo flatpak override com.usebottles.bottles --filesystem=host

2 - Setup dir for GAMMA

  • 2.1 - Create folder where you will be installing GAMMA (You need 200GB to be safe).
  • 2.2 - Open it in terminal.
    • 2.2.1 - Copy path of said folder.
    • 2.2.2 - Open terminal and do cd {path-of-your-folder} (without {}).

3 - gamma-laucher (Source: [github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher](https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher

Note: There is a fork/alternative to g-l by gabriel.chamon. The repo is over on GitLab.

See more in #16. From a quick look at its code it looks fine as of 27.06.2026, but treat it with caution, same caution that you supposed to exercise even when using this guide.

(In case of gamma-launcher-related errors consult gamma-launcher's repo)

  • 3.1 - Pull repository with git clone https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcher.
  • 3.2.0 - You shoud ignore this line at first; Next steps tested with given Python versions (including but not excluding): 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10.
  • 3.2 - Create venv with python -m venv venv.
  • 3.3 - Enable venv with source ./venv/bin/activate if you have encounter an error while doing this try again but with bash as your shell.
  • 3.4 - Go into gamma-launcher's folder (with cd {name-of-the-folder}).
  • 3.5 - Install gamma-launcher with pip install .
  • 3.6 - Try to check gamma-launcher version with gamma-launcher --version solve errors as they appear.

4 - GAMMA Installation

  • 4.1 - Go into folder that you created for installing GAMMA, for example "StalkerGAMMA".
  • 4.2 - Install GAMMA + Anomaly with gamma-launcher full-install --anomaly ./Anomaly --gamma ./GAMMA --cache-directory ./cache
  • 4.3 - You are looking to get a file structure like this:
└── StalkerGAMMA
    ├── Anomaly
    ├── cache
    ├── GAMMA
    ├── gamma-launcher
    └── venv
  • 4.4 - Solve dependency errors as they appear.

5 - GAMMA Configuration

  • 5.1 - Configure Bottles
    • 5.1.1 - Download runner (proton-ge-9-20)
    • 5.1.2 - Create bottle (Gaming)
    • 5.1.3 - Configure bottle (change it's runner to proton-ge-9-20)
  • 5.2 - Configure prefix
    • 5.2.1 - Find prefix of the bottle that you created
    • 5.2.2 - Install dependencies with WINEPREFIX={your-prefix's-path} winetricks cmd d3dx9 dx8vb d3dcompiler_42 d3dcompiler_43 d3dcompiler_46 d3dcompiler_47 d3dx10_43 d3dx10 d3dx11_42 d3dx11_43 vcrun2022 dxvk quartz

6 - Making GAMMA run

  • 6.1 - First run
    • 6.1.1 - Add mod organ shortcut.
    • 6.1.2 - Start it.
    • 6.1.3 - Press next.
    • 6.1.4 - Select "Create a portable instance".
    • 6.1.5 - Browse > select path of your Anomaly installation.
    • 6.1.6 - Selected location should change to GAMMA folder.
    • 6.1.7 - Next > Next > Finish.
    • 6.1.8 - Get an error (Def. profile does not exist. GAMMA one will be used instead)
    • 6.1.9 - Follow through.
    • 6.1.10 - You can close it (if you want)
  • 6.2 - Second run (or continuation)
    • 6.2.1 - (Ultrawide fix (only for people with Ultrawide)).
    • 6.2.2 - Try to start GAMMA.
    • 6.2.3 - It works.

7 - End note

  • 7.1 - Additional help (Source: AnomalyMod)
  • 7.2 - My Hardware/Software: AMD GPU(7900xtx)/CPU(r9), kernel - (6.12.8-arch1-1), tested on: Hyprland/KDE/Cinamon, date:12.01.2025.
  • 7.3 - Good luck in Zone and have a good day.

Troubleshooting: here

Distro-specific: here

Updating: here