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    • tatsuT Offline
      tatsu
      last edited by tatsu

      no. no replay crashes for me.

      proton : 5.13-1
      nvidia : 450

      it's probably the nvidia 455 driver. that sound a bit too hot off the press.

      How to setup FAF on linux

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        callcifer
        last edited by

        I'm pretty sure I've had the replay crashes for a while now, long before 455 but I've never tried Proton 5.13, let me test with that.

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          callcifer @tatsu
          last edited by callcifer

          @tatsu said in Linux Support:

          guys that happens if you close steam.

          This is also very weird because with Proton 5.0 and below you never had to have Steam running.

          EDIT: This can be fixed by removing "steam.exe" from the last line of your "run" file.

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            callcifer
            last edited by callcifer

            OK with Proton 5.13 I have no crashes so far, 40 minutes into a game.

            I've also just realized I've been playing with D3D9 all this time! I just switched to D9VK and the game is soo much smoother!

            Now, my only remaining issue is all the missing effects but I guess there is no solution to that 😞

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            • tatsuT Offline
              tatsu @callcifer
              last edited by tatsu

              @callcifer said in Linux Support:

              EDIT: This can be fixed by removing "steam.exe" from the last line of your "run" file.

              mmhhh TY

              @callcifer said in Linux Support:

              I just switched to D9VK

              how'd you do that?

              How to setup FAF on linux

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              • foodlfgF Offline
                foodlfg @tatsu
                last edited by

                @tatsu said in Linux Support:

                guys that happens if you close steam.

                no, it is not because of that. as i said:

                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 ran the two files after each other. one worked the other one does not.
                if steam had not been running then the first one would not have worked either.

                only 5.09, 4.xx run file generates properly for me.
                5.13 does not

                nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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                • foodlfgF Offline
                  foodlfg @callcifer
                  last edited by foodlfg

                  @callcifer
                  it is hard to test for long games but as for me:

                  • Proton 5.09 - 2x long setons games, 2x crashed at 30min
                  • Proton 4.11 - tested today with palying a 1+ hour long setons game. worked fine and it worked back then too.

                  expect crashes. and test for it.
                  the game is not 100% stable with Wine / Proton.
                  we dont know why.

                  nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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                    callcifer
                    last edited by callcifer

                    OK there seems to be some confusion. Here's where I stand.

                    • Actual gameplay is stable for me with both 5.0 and 5.13.
                    • Replays almost always crash with 5.0 but never with 5.13.

                    @foodlfg said in Linux Support:

                    if steam had not been running then the first one would not have worked either.
                    only 5.09, 4.xx run file generates properly for me.
                    5.13 does not

                    This is not correct in my experience. Before 5.13 I never had to have Steam running to play FAF. What has changed with 5.13 is that Steam generates a slightly different run file. With 5.0 and earlier the last line of the file ended with:

                    bin/wine" "${@:-${DEF_CMD[@]}}"

                    but with 5.13 it became

                    bin/wine" steam.exe "${@:-${DEF_CMD[@]}}"

                    So instead of executing SupremeCommander.exe directly with wine, 5.13 instead calls steam.exe which in turn launches the game. That's why 5.13 doesn't work if Steam isn't running. Still, as I've said, you can fix this very easily by removing steam.exe from that line and everything will work correctly.

                    @foodlfg said in Linux Support:

                    the game is not 100% stable with Wine / Proton.
                    we dont know why.

                    Again, not in my experience. I've had zero stability issues with Proton 3.16 and 5.13. The only problematic ones for me were 4.11 (caused desyncs) and 5.0 (caused replay crashes).

                    @tatsu said in Linux Support:

                    I just switched to D9VK

                    how'd you do that?

                    With Proton 5.0 and above Proton defaults to D9VK instead of Wine D3D9 so you don't have to do anything special. If DXVK_HUD=1 shows you the DXVK hud in game then you are using D9VK. Of course, you can try to force enable D9VK with PROTON_USE_D9VK=1

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                    • tatsuT Offline
                      tatsu
                      last edited by

                      oh ok if it's default then perfect.

                      How to setup FAF on linux

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                      • foodlfgF Offline
                        foodlfg
                        last edited by

                        @callcifer
                        i have a Proton 4.11 run file from june and it already had steam.exe in it.
                        bin/wine" steam.exe "${@:-${DEF_CMD[@]}}"

                        so this is not Proton version dependent.
                        more like Steam version, but even that is unlikely.

                        and my problem is not "steam is not running" with Proton 5.13.

                        nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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                        • Brutus5000B Online
                          Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                          last edited by

                          Looks like my setup broke. Everytime I try to join a game I'm stuck with the FA mouse cursor and a black screen. Pinning Proton to 5.0-10 did not help. And I can't tab out of the black fullscreen window... Any advice?

                          He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                          Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                          And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                          Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                            callcifer
                            last edited by

                            If you start it from the terminal do you see any error messages?

                            Also, if you recently installed any updates make sure to reboot as kernel/driver changes can cause problems until a reboot.

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                            • tatsuT Offline
                              tatsu @Brutus5000
                              last edited by

                              @Brutus5000 you could delete .faforever and .com.faforever.client.FafClientApplication in home see if it's not the conf file that's messed up.

                              if that doesn't do it. regenerate the run file (remove steam.exe like calcifer did)

                              if that doesn't do it redo your whole FA install.

                              this is quite weird TBH. never had this. what change happened on your setup before it started failing?

                              How to setup FAF on linux

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                              • tatsuT Offline
                                tatsu
                                last edited by

                                I'm testing new proton 5.13, everything's nominal

                                How to setup FAF on linux

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                                  JuicyWishes
                                  last edited by JuicyWishes

                                  Hi everyone,
                                  I'm trying to install downlords faf client on linux. But i'm having problems with java installation.
                                  When i follow the wiki and install openjdk-14-jre (and do all the other steps) i get the following output when trying to run the client:
                                  No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found on your system.
                                  The version of the JVM must be 15.
                                  Please define INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME to point to a suitable JVM.

                                  I then tried installing version 15 and setting the env-var with the following:
                                  export INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-15-openjdk-amd64
                                  I also tried to install the oracle java package (as in video tutorial) but i could not get it to install at all.

                                  I am not very experienced in linux... does anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

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                                  • foodlfgF Offline
                                    foodlfg @JuicyWishes
                                    last edited by foodlfg

                                    @JuicyWishes said in Linux Support:

                                    Hi everyone,
                                    I'm trying to install downlords faf client on linux. But i'm having problems with java installation.

                                    open up one terminal window.
                                    first command:
                                    export INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-14-openjdk-amd64
                                    second command:
                                    ./downlords-faf-client

                                    do you do this or something else?

                                    EDIT
                                    sorry, the client needs java15 now?

                                    nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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                                    • foodlfgF Offline
                                      foodlfg
                                      last edited by

                                      btw i have switched to Windows 10 in this month.
                                      im not proud of this.
                                      but i had basic stability problems constantly. with my recent set up too: PopOS LTS + Gnome3 + AMD drivers.
                                      i dont know why, i have no time to experiment with other things. Win 10 is stable.

                                      so i cannot test the game on linux from now on.
                                      if someone wants to update the wiki from now on, go ahead!
                                      https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Setting_Up_FAF_Linux

                                      nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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                                        JuicyWishes @foodlfg
                                        last edited by JuicyWishes

                                        @foodlfg Thats right, thats what i did and i got the output telling me i need java15. but installing java15 did not solve it unfortunately.
                                        I was thinking the environment variable should be different two so i tried changing it to /usr/lib/jvm/java-15-openjdk-amd64 but thats probably wrong.

                                        EDIT: just got it to work. had to use this command:
                                        export INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-15-oracle

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                                          aIegnagyobbkiraj
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi everyone!
                                          I've set up the game on latest Manjaro with Steam Play, and I have a couple of questions:

                                          • game load time seems quite excessive - it takes about a minute to put me into the game and similar amount of time to close the game after I hit exit. Is this usual or can it be improved in some way? (I have tested it using proton 5.0-x and 5.13-x with same results)
                                          • tried to watch some replays but most of them gave me error message. (I'm not certain it's client related though, as the message seemed to be complaining about a server resource not found. Still like 80% of my tries were unsuccessful which seems like a lot!) So the question: is that normal / can it be improved etc.

                                          Also I've read some from the comments in this topic and the game itself was pretty stable compared to some. I have managed to watch two ~1 hour replays (with max speed) and there were no problems.
                                          Thanks in advance!

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                                          • foodlfgF Offline
                                            foodlfg @aIegnagyobbkiraj
                                            last edited by

                                            @szopacniger

                                            takes about a minute to put me into the game and similar amount of time to close the game after I hit exit.

                                            strange.
                                            did you use the PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 flag in Steam before you generated the run file?
                                            without it, it is slow.
                                            probably it is not it. but i have no other idea. the loading wasnt really slow for me.
                                            it may also be a network problem. when you have to connect to other players via the faf server.

                                            as for the replays, same, no idea but make sure you close the game before you start a new replay. can you post the error message?

                                            nice ghetto streams: https://www.twitch.tv/foodlfg

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