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Hello, I recently installed FAF client on Linux Mint 19.3 w/Cinnamon. I was able to successfully play stock Forged Alliance on steam with Proton and those launch options. After following instructions I am able to get the client working for FAF. FAF appears to point to the correct location for the game install. However in spite of all of this, when I try to create a match or join one through the client, nothing happens. I don't even get an error message or any real indicator that something happened.

@Davebowman Game/Client log please.

@Davebowman
maybe this one?
https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Setting_Up_FAF_Linux#The_FAF_client_doesn.27t_launch_the_game

i might have done something wrong or forgot when setting up u can have a look at this video as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3ZXA4FNFk

@axel12 said in Linux Support:

@Davebowman Game/Client log please.

All I have is a client log: https://pastebin.com/HA0Y5M72

There is an iceadapterlogs folder too, do you want that as well?

@foodlfg said in Linux Support:

@Davebowman
maybe this one?
https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Setting_Up_FAF_Linux#The_FAF_client_doesn.27t_launch_the_game

Steam is installed and active, Forged Alliance is installed as well and it works with Proton stock.

@axel12 said in Linux Support:

i might have done something wrong or forgot when setting up u can have a look at this video as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3ZXA4FNFk

This is what I used as a guide. I followed it to the letter (except for uninstalling old client, since I have no old client).

2020-10-01 13:02:11.772 INFO 11646 --- [pool-3-thread-5] com.faforever.client.game.GameService : Forged Alliance terminated with exit code 2

@Davebowman The client starts the exe without wine /home/bowman/.faforever/bin/ForgedAlliance.exe
You must have missed the steps:

1. Make steam build a script
2. Copy that script from temp folder to a save location.
3. Enter that script under executable format in the client settings.

I am not sure if the steps are missing in the video but if so the video would be incomplete.

Read "Copy the Steam RUN script" in the wiki article!

I did miss that step, but have changed that and now I am able to join and create games. I tested in a 1v1 and was able to play through the entire game. Thanks for the help.

Proton 5.13-1 is out!
Test pls!

testing.

works brilliant for me. I got way faster game ForgedAlliance.exe boot-up time. nothing else to remark on.

really?
because the generated run file for 5.13 is different for me than for 5.09 (i regenerated 5.09 as well, it is not old).

if i just run the run 5.09 file from terminal the original game launches.
if i run the 5.13 file nothing happens. it is working with launching from Steam, but not from terminal or from the client.

i get this in terminal:

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 9420
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198445101600 [API loaded no]```

make sure steam is running.

i dunno what to say works utterly brilliant for me.

step 1. uninstall linux

@nine2 said in Linux Support:

step 1. uninstall linux

hehe funneh!
just support monopolistic giga corporations with you everyday life decisions.
that are cannot be controlled by society at all. in fact, people are exposed to their decisions. they directly associate with corruption. it makes sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM

@tatsu said in Linux Support:

make sure steam is running.

i dunno what to say works utterly brilliant for me.

how does your Proton 5.13 run file look like?
this is mine. the PATH variable is noticeably shorter in it:
https://gist.github.com/foodlfg/d104c6d42e14d6929a0e8626c8edaeb6#file-supcom-proton513-run-file

I was hoping for some fix for the missing effects but alas it's still the same.

@Whatsisname
what is about your Proton 5.13 run file btw?
working fine?

Hi, can't understand what's wrong with my setup. I tried to follow instructions, on first launch it exits with code 1, says that wine can't find freetype2 fonts family, so I install 32 version of it, and error gone.

Now when I try to create game, It does nothings, logs give me exit with code 0. Like this

2020-11-08 13:29:58.803 INFO 4686 --- [ Thread-110] c.f.client.fa.ForgedAllianceService : Starting Forged Alliance with command: [/home/vitautart/apps/faf/client/1.2.2/run, /home/vitautart/.faforever/bin/ForgedAlliance.exe, /init, init.lua, /nobugreport, /log, /home/vitautart/.faforever/logs/game_13067128.log, /gpgnet, 127.0.0.1:21521, /mean, 1892.75, /deviation, 301.084, /savereplay, gpgnet://127.0.0.1:33127/13067128/vitautart.SCFAreplay, /country, UA, /numgames, 7] in directory: /home/vitautart/.faforever/bin
wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = ****
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: ****************** [API loaded no]
2020-11-08 13:30:00.506 INFO 4686 --- [pool-3-thread-2] com.faforever.client.game.GameService : Forged Alliance terminated with exit code 0
2020-11-08 13:30:00.832 INFO 4686 --- [ Thread-110] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl : ICE adapter terminated normally

System: ArchLinux
WM: dwm
Proton 5.13

Vanilla FA works fine in steam.

@vitautart
yeh. i have the same problem with Proton 5.13
Steam generates a different run file for Proton 5.13 than for the previous ones.
if you want to track down the issue, i would start there.

meanwhile. use an older Proton version.

btw the wiki is not saying to use Proton 5.13, it is not in the compatible list...
it says "Proton 5.0-9 (recommended)"