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How To get Clip Studio Paint working on Linux
8 months ago
Here's my HOWTO for getting Clip Studio Paint working on Linux. I'm using Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon.
UPDATE: this unfortunately doesn't (yet) work very well for CSP 3.0+, as it uses Edge's web component to render things, especially in Clip Studio launcher, and so makes some operations otherwise impossible. This means downloading assets from the material store or your account doesn't work yet. Try CSP 2.0+ instead.
First, make sure your tablet is working the way you want it to in Linux natively. I recommend installing Krita and confirming you have the pressure sensitivity and/or tilt support etc you desire. I have an XP-Pen Innovator 16 and had to install the native XP-Pen drivers to get it to work myself. Your mileage may vary.
* Install Bottles with whatever software manager you prefer. I used Mint's Software Manager to get Bottles from Flathub, but you do what you gotta do.
* Open Bottles, open the hamburger menu at the top and go to Bottle's preferences, go to the Runners tab and install the latest version of kron4ek. Mine was 10.0
* Make a new bottle and call it csp, optimize it for Gaming, and choose the kron4ek runner.
* Once it's made and it's installed the bare necessities into the bottle, add more dependencies to your bottle. I ended up with
d3dx9, d3dcompiler_43, d3dcompiler_47, msls31, mono, gecko, arial32, times32, courie32 already preinstalled, but had to add:
webview2 and then filter by font and install andale32, arialb32, comic32, georgi32, impact32, tahoma32, trebuc32, verdan32, webdin32, allfonts, consolas, lucon
* go to your bottle settings
*** Change Windows Version be Windows 8.1
*** Turn on Automatic Snapshots (or don't, your choice, I'm not your parent)
* Go back to the bottle and click Run Executable, and pick your CSP installer from wherever it is in your home directory (mine was in ~/downloads).
* oh noh! It's a Windows window! It’s the CSP installer, so follow the instructions and let CSP finish installing.
* When the installer is done, Bottles should detect CLIPStudio, this is the Clip Launcher - click it to run it!
* If Clip is annoyed about Edge not being around, check the box and ignore it forever, it'll be fine.
* Let Clip install the default materials, and if you want, let it download the 2GB of extra materials, plus anything materials from your account.
* In the bottle page in Bottles, from the kebab menu at the top choose Search for New Programs, and maybe it'll find ClipStudioPaint.
* If not, add a shortcut and browse to drive_c/Program Files/CELSYS/CLIP STUDIO 1.5/CLIP STUDIO PAINT/CLIPStudioPaint.exe
* Run ClipStudioPaint. It might complain about something being out of date again, feel free to ignore it, it's probably complaining about Edge not being around.
* CSP will probably ask you to start a trial - just click EX or PRO for now - let's make sure it's all working right before you bother logging in with your CELSYS account or whatever.
* CSP should detect you have a tablet, and ask you to tweak your pressure curve. Ignore it for now, and go to File > Preferences > Tablet and turn on "Use mouse mode in tablet driver settings" - you should now have pen pressure!
Now you're free to set up CSP however you like! close the app, open it again, log in with your CELSYS account to get your full version working.
Also check out the Preferences > Performance tab. Consider moving the swap to somewhere on your fastest disk (you'll have to set up a drive for it in Bottles), maybe add more undo levels if that's your thing, and maybe make sure it's using VulkanDNN-YourGPUHere for processing unit.
Thanks to Zolfarius for telling me how they got CSP working on their machines, it gave me the leads (specifically kron4ek) that I needed to get it working :D
UPDATE: this unfortunately doesn't (yet) work very well for CSP 3.0+, as it uses Edge's web component to render things, especially in Clip Studio launcher, and so makes some operations otherwise impossible. This means downloading assets from the material store or your account doesn't work yet. Try CSP 2.0+ instead.
First, make sure your tablet is working the way you want it to in Linux natively. I recommend installing Krita and confirming you have the pressure sensitivity and/or tilt support etc you desire. I have an XP-Pen Innovator 16 and had to install the native XP-Pen drivers to get it to work myself. Your mileage may vary.
* Install Bottles with whatever software manager you prefer. I used Mint's Software Manager to get Bottles from Flathub, but you do what you gotta do.
* Open Bottles, open the hamburger menu at the top and go to Bottle's preferences, go to the Runners tab and install the latest version of kron4ek. Mine was 10.0
* Make a new bottle and call it csp, optimize it for Gaming, and choose the kron4ek runner.
* Once it's made and it's installed the bare necessities into the bottle, add more dependencies to your bottle. I ended up with
d3dx9, d3dcompiler_43, d3dcompiler_47, msls31, mono, gecko, arial32, times32, courie32 already preinstalled, but had to add:
webview2 and then filter by font and install andale32, arialb32, comic32, georgi32, impact32, tahoma32, trebuc32, verdan32, webdin32, allfonts, consolas, lucon
* go to your bottle settings
*** Change Windows Version be Windows 8.1
*** Turn on Automatic Snapshots (or don't, your choice, I'm not your parent)
* Go back to the bottle and click Run Executable, and pick your CSP installer from wherever it is in your home directory (mine was in ~/downloads).
* oh noh! It's a Windows window! It’s the CSP installer, so follow the instructions and let CSP finish installing.
* When the installer is done, Bottles should detect CLIPStudio, this is the Clip Launcher - click it to run it!
* If Clip is annoyed about Edge not being around, check the box and ignore it forever, it'll be fine.
* Let Clip install the default materials, and if you want, let it download the 2GB of extra materials, plus anything materials from your account.
* In the bottle page in Bottles, from the kebab menu at the top choose Search for New Programs, and maybe it'll find ClipStudioPaint.
* If not, add a shortcut and browse to drive_c/Program Files/CELSYS/CLIP STUDIO 1.5/CLIP STUDIO PAINT/CLIPStudioPaint.exe
* Run ClipStudioPaint. It might complain about something being out of date again, feel free to ignore it, it's probably complaining about Edge not being around.
* CSP will probably ask you to start a trial - just click EX or PRO for now - let's make sure it's all working right before you bother logging in with your CELSYS account or whatever.
* CSP should detect you have a tablet, and ask you to tweak your pressure curve. Ignore it for now, and go to File > Preferences > Tablet and turn on "Use mouse mode in tablet driver settings" - you should now have pen pressure!
Now you're free to set up CSP however you like! close the app, open it again, log in with your CELSYS account to get your full version working.
Also check out the Preferences > Performance tab. Consider moving the swap to somewhere on your fastest disk (you'll have to set up a drive for it in Bottles), maybe add more undo levels if that's your thing, and maybe make sure it's using VulkanDNN-YourGPUHere for processing unit.
Thanks to Zolfarius for telling me how they got CSP working on their machines, it gave me the leads (specifically kron4ek) that I needed to get it working :D
Just going off of memory, it seems like their script actually grabs all of the dependencies you list here, including the boatload of fonts. Maybe it's the runner?
(Actually, scratch that -- pen pressure isn't working, either.)
Works perfectly on CSP 2.06 with kron4ek win proton 10.0