Missing ground textures on linux

[Bloody Baron]

Anyone else has the same problem? I tried proton experimental and proton cachyos. It's the same

[Grahf]

Yeah same here on Nvidia using Proton GE and experimental. I shall wait and play on Winbl0ze in the interim.

[Jaspir]

Someone said on Github that they are working on a Nvidia driver fix. They seem pretty reputable. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8408

[Okerlund]

Jaspir původně napsal:

Someone said on Github that they are working on a Nvidia driver fix. They seem pretty reputable. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8408

I seen that someone had linked to the RTX 5090 Linux Driver on the 30th in the comments, but that didn't mention a fix for this, specifically. Can you link to the comment?

[Jaspir]

Okerlund původně napsal:

Jaspir původně napsal:

Someone said on Github that they are working on a Nvidia driver fix. They seem pretty reputable. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8408

I seen that someone had linked to the RTX 5090 Linux Driver on the 30th in the comments, but that didn't mention a fix for this, specifically. Can you link to the comment?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8408#issuecomment-2610069931

[cha0tic]

Icy1007 původně napsal:

Game doesn't support Linux. So you'll likely not get any support from the devs.

Game literally says steam deck verified which means it supports linux. Anyway we never expect games to be 100% compatible because proton usually fixes all the stuff devs don't bother with.

[RTbecard]

Ben původně napsal:

DarkeoX původně napsal:

They provided early access to Linux devs esp. so it could run on Steam Deck on launch date though.

Deck SteamOS is a special release of linux, don't expect that to be valid for any other releases. SteamOS is specifically modified for game support. Also, being based on ArchLinux or any other distro is not equivalent have same support and feature.

Do you game on linux? This statement really doesn't reflect my experiences, and as far as I'm aware, most people's experience. Generally, if something works on steamdeck, you can be pretty confident it will work on your linux machine, we're all sharing the same kernel drivers (albeit some distros just have more recent versions).

In this specific case, the problem is not related to the "distro", its reported to be a bug with nvidia proprietary drivers. This is a pretty unique and singular case as far as my experiences go. I want to also point out that these nvidia drivers arn't even packaged with almost all distros (as they arn't open source, which goes against the ethos of most distros).

I think you're selling other linux distros short here. Gaming on most distros is great (and very easy), as we all use the same proton versions steamOS uses. There seems to be this notion that you need a "gaming distro" if you want to play on linux. I'm not sure where this ideas comes from...

[Okerlund]

The CachyOS developers released the Nvidia 570 drivers, but know that this is an EARLY release. I am not going to try these until they are official.

https://share.cachyos.org/x86_64/nvidia-570/

Just wanted to share here for those that might enjoy tinkering and could see if these fix anything. I am just going to wait until they are available on Arch. They ain't even available on the official Nvidia website yet.

The source of where I got the link from is this comment on this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2222412#p2222412

Again, I have not tested these. Try it at your own risk.

And editing to add this YouTube video explaining how the CachyOS developers got it early, and also explaining the drivers themselves. I have never seen this YouTuber before, so I won't claim that it is all true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXh3KGf1pE

[Ofca]

Newest publicly available drivers as of the time I write this comment (570.86.15) don't address this bug, and this issue is related to a driver bug with no possible workaround (at least to the best knowledge of a prominent vkd3d developr) - so we all need to either wait patiently for the next driver release by nvidia, or dual boot bindows :/

Oh, and there's no secret covenant gatekeeping the drivers:
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/

CUDA always got the hot stuff first. But, like I said: even freshest drivers won't help with this issue.

[guillaumeff7]

I tried to install the latest 570.86.16 Nvidia driver on ubuntu 24.10 (kernel 6.11.0-14) and boot was impossible after the installation. I had to boot on an old kernel to uninstall 570 driver and reinstall the latest available stable kernel.

It won't help with the issue of missing textures, but I think this experience could help some unexperimented people to wait for a stable solution instead of trying beta stuff. Idk where the problem comes from between 570 driver and 6.11 kernel so if anyone can bring me lights ;)

I tried proton bleeding-edge too but it doesn't seems to solve the problem. I noticed in the last commit that the .exe of the game is named "ff7rebirth_.exe" instead of "ff7rebirth.exe". Any info about this?

Edit : I didn't see that the fix in bleeding-edge is for AMD cards. So nothing new for Nvidia if I did understand well...?

[Ofca]

guillaumeff7 původně napsal:

Edit : I didn't see that the fix in bleeding-edge is for AMD cards. So nothing new for Nvidia if I did understand well...?

Currently only way to play FF7 Rebirth when running Linux is to reboot your computer and boot bindows.

As to the drivers, it's probably a "you" problem. I'm currently using 570.86.15 from CUDA repository ( https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ ) but I've installed 570.86.16 just to be 100% sure that it won't solve the FF7 problem, and those were working fine too.

I'm using 6.12.11 kernel, but I doubt 6.11 would cause your problems.

[guillaumeff7]

Ofca původně napsal:

guillaumeff7 původně napsal:

Edit : I didn't see that the fix in bleeding-edge is for AMD cards. So nothing new for Nvidia if I did understand well...?

Currently only way to play FF7 Rebirth when running Linux is to reboot your computer and boot bindows.

As to the drivers, it's probably a "you" problem. I'm currently using 570.86.15 from CUDA repository ( https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ ) but I've installed 570.86.16 just to be 100% sure that it won't solve the FF7 problem, and those were working fine too.

I'm using 6.12.11 kernel, but I doubt 6.11 would cause your problems.

Windows... I really don't want to go back in this way 😅
I'm actually playing with my AMD integrated graphics unit. In low quality it's playable.

Thank you for your feedback about latest drivers and kernel !

By clicking on the link you sent, I can see 24.04 but not 24.10 so I assume that there's tests only on LTS versions of Ubuntu. Maybe it's the cause of the problems had before...? Wayland is activated by default on 24.10.

[Ofca]

I'm on Wayland too, so nope, not the problem. As to Bindows, well... 10 LTSC is usable with some desh1tifcator. Ask some LLM about 'how to debloat bindows'. Or, well, wait 'til nonvidia moves their collective butts and fixes what Squeenix should've reported months ago ;)

fun fact: I can boot pretty much any live cd on my machine and have everything except nonvidia working. On bindows I had to download 2GB od drivers for networking and audio. Why anyone still uses this crap in 2025 is beyond me. If people ditched this sh1t, problems like the one we are having with RTX and Rebirth wouldn't exist.

[Okerlund]

If you have hardware that supports it, you are able to pipe your GPU into a virtual machine and run Windows and games at near native performance. It will cause Linux to go black as it won't have access to your GPU anymore, but once you exit the virtual machine it should hand the GPU back over to Linux.

I haven't tried it yet, but have seen multiple tutorials on how to do it. I am always scared I will screw something up lol. But this way you wouldn't have to install Windows on your hardware and could just boot it up from Linux to play.

[Ofca]

Okerlund původně napsal:

If you have hardware that supports it, you are able to pipe your GPU into a virtual machine and run Windows and games at near native performance. It will cause Linux to go black as it won't have access to your GPU anymore, but once you exit the virtual machine it should hand the GPU back over to Linux.

I haven't tried it yet, but have seen multiple tutorials on how to do it. I am always scared I will screw something up lol. But this way you wouldn't have to install Windows on your hardware and could just boot it up from Linux to play.

If you have a GPU with Virtual Functions (similar to network adapters), both operating systems can use the GPU at the same time. Haven't tried it personally, so I'm unsure if it works only for compute workloads like LLMs/"AI", or will it also allow hardware-accelerated on-screen rendering.

Passing through a whole PCI device, like a GPU is trivial, but without second display and second/built-in GPU it may not be a fun experience.

[mirage984]

yes I have the same problem.