For my fellow linux gamers

[ręverse starfish]

Just a quick post for anyone else trying to get it running on linux... After a bit of trial and error and a bit of google-fu I've got it running good. Proton Experimental sat on a black screen and wouldn't load at all. I tried 8 next and it got past the black screen but sat on the logo screen. Setting this launch option actually gets the game to load: VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_EXT_mesh_shader

That being said, Proton 8 loads now but has some super janky graphical glitches, leaves would flicker and there was a lot of really jagged looking artifacts in like a halo effect around everything. Switching to Proton 7 everything cleared up and it's been smooth sailing! No weird glitches and with my 10700k / 3080ti I'm getting an average of 60-70 fps on High settings @ 1440p. I've disabled the upscaling options as well which appears to help clear the visuals up.

YMMV but hopefully this helps someone out there!

[♨linux_peach☁]

This is what i was looking for. Going to try it out thanks!

[LocomotivE]

Thank you so much for this fix. Working perfectly now for me too on a 10700k / RX6900XT

[Darksidewalker]

You should increase max_map_count of your distro to something like 1048576 or higher. Fixed crashe on load and any backscreen for me.

I'm on Proton_Experimental and 6.4.3-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Ryzen 7800X3D, Nvidia RTX 2070S, 32 GB RAM

Veryfy with:

cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count

or

sudo sysctl --system

The following app-startoptions are recomended by me:

VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr,force_static_cbv PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%

All is playing just fine.

BTW: the max_map_count helps on many games.

[Gris]

Doesn't start at all for me. Running Linux Mint with a Nvidia 3060Ti and have tried various launch parameters and compatibility modes, but no luck. Fingers crossed I find a solution, but for now I'll settle for using Windows when play this.

[Darksidewalker]

Originally posted by Gris:

Doesn't start at all for me. Running Linux Mint with a Nvidia 3060Ti and have tried various launch parameters and compatibility modes, but no luck. Fingers crossed I find a solution, but for now I'll settle for using Windows when play this.

You have to incease max_map_count.

[Darksidewalker]

Originally posted by Nemu:

I've been having a blast with the game on Linux since early access, my only issue is that I seemingly can't get multiplayer running.
I've tried numerous Proton releases including experimental, hotfix, a number of 8.0 revisions, GE builds and have even switched between Steam's runtime vs native libraries as well as the flatpak build.
Despite none of this working, I've seen reports that the online component does indeed work for others, would anyone be willing to share their own experiences with this here?

For me personally, trying to connect to anyone causes the game to get stuck on connecting/searching before booting me to the main menu with a 'network connection lost' message. This is also the case for two friends of mine who use Linux.

Can play without any bugs/glitches and MP is working here. I'm on latest Manjaro.
My config:
Standard Steam-Runtime with proton experimental. wine-8.12 (Staging) installed, latest NV driver 535.54.03 , Kernel 6.4.3-1-MANJARO (64-bit), max_map_count set to 1048576.

Steam-Startoptions:
VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr,force_static_cbv PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%

[Sir Archer]

Ok I think it worked but now it's running but won't open.

[Gris]

Originally posted by Darksidewalker:

Originally posted by Gris:

Doesn't start at all for me. Running Linux Mint with a Nvidia 3060Ti and have tried various launch parameters and compatibility modes, but no luck. Fingers crossed I find a solution, but for now I'll settle for using Windows when play this.

You have to incease max_map_count.

I tried this with no success, but trying to launch it via the terminal I got an error message leading me to this github issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5168

Seems it doesn't like me having installed it on a mounted drive, that the drive is mounted incorrectly (for Steam) or whatever.

I mounted it again using ntfs-3g, at which point it tries to start but lacks c++ dist 2015. Trying to install it now using protontricks, but there are obstacles all the way. Will report if I'm able to get this working.

[Gris]

Okay, so I got it working. Steam did not like my installing the game on an NTFS partition, so I formatted it to Ext4, installed the game again, set max_map_count and ran with @Darksidewalker's settings. Takes forever to load (partly because it's a HDD, not SSD, I imagine), but it launches and seems to run pretty smoothly :)

[Darksidewalker]

Originally posted by Gris:

Okay, so I got it working. Steam did not like my installing the game on an NTFS partition, so I formatted it to Ext4, installed the game again, set max_map_count and ran with @Darksidewalker's settings. Takes forever to load (partly because it's a HDD, not SSD, I imagine), but it launches and seems to run pretty smoothly :)

Yeah. Steam on Linux + NTFS is a bad idea. You would have to set some things up to get it run and than it has flaws. Ext4 is recommanded.
I would suggest to never run games from external drives or HDD, always use a SSD if you can.

[Turnspit]

Running Ubuntu 23.04 with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RX 6950 XT und 32GB RAM:

VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr,force_static_cbv PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%

sadly makes no difference for me. The most recent Proton version working is 7.0-6., but has issues with controller support. While the controller is working, the visible cursor is not moving in the menues, making navigating them pretty hard...

max_map_count is set up to 100000 as well.

[LocomotivE]

Originally posted by Turnspit:

Running Ubuntu 23.04 with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RX 6950 XT und 32GB RAM:

VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr,force_static_cbv PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%

sadly makes no difference for me. The most recent Proton version working is 7.0-6., but has issues with controller support. While the controller is working, the visible cursor is not moving in the menues, making navigating them pretty hard...

max_map_count is set up to 100000 as well.

No offense, but copy-pasta random strings from the web rarely helps. If you have a RX 6950 and your command includes "PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1", which enables the NVidia API will not do you any good. That VKD3D configuration is not particularly helpful for your hardware either. Try with just VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_EXT_mesh_shader on the startup command and force Proton 7.
You can safely increase vm.max_map_count to 262144 too and give it a shot.
Good luck

[DON_Looney]

Now it works with Proton Experimental on PopOS without any additional settings. Before I had DX12 error messages which now have been resolved.

AMD Ryzen 5700X
AMD RX 6800XT
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

[Corey Willis]

Originally posted by DON_Looney:

Now it works with Proton Experimental on PopOS without any additional settings. Before I had DX12 error messages which now have been resolved.

AMD Ryzen 5700X
AMD RX 6800XT
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Were you able to play multuplayer with this setup? I can't join or have others join my game so far.

[tripod]

Originally posted by Nemu:

I've been having a blast with the game on Linux since early access, my only issue is that I seemingly can't get multiplayer running.
I've tried numerous Proton releases including experimental, hotfix, a number of 8.0 revisions, GE builds and have even switched between Steam's runtime vs native libraries as well as the flatpak build.
Despite none of this working, I've seen reports that the online component does indeed work for others, would anyone be willing to share their own experiences with this here?

For me personally, trying to connect to anyone causes the game to get stuck on connecting/searching before booting me to the main menu with a 'network connection lost' message. This is also the case for two friends of mine who use Linux.

make sure you run in a terminal "timedatectl set-ntp true"