Linux Support

tatsu · 11 Mar 2021, 21:05

hmm. well I'm not certain proton experimental would fix it.

Could you try this? :

move your steamapps folder to somwhere safe.
purge and delete steam and all steam-related files.
run "Additional Drivers" and put the mesa driver back.
reboot.
install and run steam.
run "Additional Drivers" again and put the nvidia 450 driver back.
reboot.
run FA with whatever proton version and args (I recommend mine, I'm pretty sure it'll work)

now test to see in FAF if it gets beyond 30 mins.

foodlfg · 13 Mar 2021, 16:27

@SlowHands89
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installed Vulkan tools for popos/ubuntu because otherwise i would not have gotten Vulkan support
used Proton 4.11
and i enabled the Vulkan translation for proton (it is not enabled by default in this proton version). more about this here: Solution 2
https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Setting_Up_FAF_Linux#Performance_issues

with this i could get a stable game (45min+). but only with Proton 4.11. nothing else worked. and i have an AMD GPU

Brutus5000 · 22 Mar 2021, 23:20

The mighty @p4block (that's our server guru by the way) gave us this:
https://gist.github.com/p4block/8d947f85fa707b433af359a699b367fb

Downloads a prebuilt binary wine/proton setup that should run out of the box on any distribution regardless of your current installation state.

If anybody wants to try it, feedback is appreciated.

tatsu · 23 Mar 2021, 04:31

works brilliant

it's FA in offline mode.

Don't have any use for that but if I start wanting to play Ai skirmishes that I can save and load, why not

Nathmate · 6 May 2021, 16:11

I had to change line 8 to match where my SupCom was installed (appears to be a typo there anyway, "steampps"). Otherwise works well, I was getting atrocious performance in the score screen on Proton 5.0

@tatsu said in Linux Support:

works brilliant

it's FA in offline mode.

Don't have any use for that but if I start wanting to play Ai skirmishes that I can save and load, why not

In Downlord's FAF client change in Settings -> Forged Alliance Forever -> Command Line Format for Executable to

/path/to/run_faf.sh "%s"

To use it in FAF.

Brutus5000 · 23 Mar 2021, 07:56

Yeah I thought it was obvious to set up as the launcher script in the client

tatsu · 23 Mar 2021, 14:40

oh yeah!

What's fantastic about that is that we can just put it into the wiki and it'll make my video tutorial obsolete [ a good thing! ] or I can make a new one showing this script instead.

FAF installation on linux is now EVEN easier as it no longer requires a first run from steam (or for steam play for all titles to be enabled, for that matter if you only play FAF).

Brutus5000 · 23 Mar 2021, 15:48

If it's stable we might even add this into the client directly

foodlfg · 23 Mar 2021, 17:15

lol this is in the script:

This game is just weird
Please reimplement in Spring engine

i had more problem installing spring on linux than FAF btw.
random crashes even. random crashes even on Windows. lol

tatsu · 24 Mar 2021, 12:58

I dunno, BAR works fine for me. but yeah I'm hard at work on something of that nature as you two already well know but that's enough offtopic for this thread.

@Brutus5000 said in Linux Support:

If it's stable we might even add this into the client directly

that would be ....AWESOME

Skoub · 14 Apr 2021, 22:57

If you want to spam unit you can remap the command because if you're on ubuntu alt + f2 spam the command

cotton · 6 May 2021, 16:11

@nathmate said in Linux Support:

I had to change line 8 to match where my SupCom was installed (appears to be a typo there anyway, "steampps"). Otherwise works well, I was getting atrocious performance in the score screen on Proton 5.0

@tatsu said in Linux Support:

works brilliant

it's FA in offline mode.

Don't have any use for that but if I start wanting to play Ai skirmishes that I can save and load, why not

In Downlord's FAF client change in Settings -> Forged Alliance Forever -> Command Line Format for Executable to

/path/to/run_faf.sh "%s"

To use it in FAF.

Yes, I concur - works brilliantly.

Have been running FAF under Wine successfully for the past year but recently been getting memory exceptions. This alternative is an excellent replacement.

Just one minor anomaly in Nathmate's instructions: in the current zip file from the github page, the start file is named run-faf.sh not run_faf.sh

Sereiya · 19 May 2021, 19:46

Made a Lutris install script, this should make it even easier for new people since that tool is quite popular. Right now it's just for the Steam version, but the retail disc is already in my drive and gog version bookmarked.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1657/linux-install-script-lutris

Gzack · 11 Jun 2021, 04:49

@tatsu said in Linux Support:

works brilliant

it's FA in offline mode.

Don't have any use for that but if I start wanting to play Ai skirmishes that I can save and load, why not

Oh my goodness finally I can run FAF. Thank you all!

Cyborg16 · 26 Jun 2021, 17:01

Does Proton 6.3 work for you? I get no very useful feedback when trying to launch; it just quits quickly:

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 9420
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  <number> [API loaded no]

Sereiya · 26 Jun 2021, 18:27

@cyborg16 Starts perfectly fine for me with 6.3, although 5.0 is still recommended.

Did you remember using "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%" as start parameters?

Cyborg16 · 26 Jun 2021, 19:05

Already had PROTON_NO_ESYNC there but not the other. Either way it starts from Steam but not from the command-line or Downlord's client.

Edit: 5.13 also doesn't work. 4.11 does work, as does 5.0.

MazorNoob · 26 Jun 2021, 20:23

Try removing and recreating the prefix, 5.13 onwards uses containers.

Cyborg16 · 30 Jun 2021, 08:03

Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work either. If I remove steamapps/compatdata/9420, set Steam to use Proton 6.3-5 and try to launch through Steam, it fails:

warning: z:\home\me\games\steamlibrary\steamapps\common\supreme commander forged alliance\gamedata\effects.scd\effects\cartographic.fx: unable to compile effect: z:\home\me\games\steamlibrary\steamapps\common\supreme commander forged alliance\gamedata\effects.scd\effects\cartographic.fx reason: unknown error

Doing the same with Proton 5.13-6 works through Steam, but still won't load, e.g. trying to load a local replay (command copied from Downlord's client):

$ /home/me/games/faf/run-proton-5.13 /home/me/.faforever/bin/ForgedAlliance.exe /init init.lua /nobugreport /log /home/me/.faforever/logs/game_14792563.log /replay /home/me/.faforever/cache/temp.scfareplay /replayid 14792563
wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 9420
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  <number> [API loaded no]

Running with Proton 5.0 using this prefix works however. Guess I'll stick with that for now.

The main issue I have is that ACU upgrade effects are not visible; also I think the Cybran ACU gun is less visible than it should be. Small thing.

Oh, I'm using these launch options in Steam; they may be outdated:

PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 DXVK_HUD=full PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 PROTON_DUMP_DEBUG_COMMANDS=1 %command%

tatsu · 30 Jun 2021, 08:24

@Cyborg16 did you try pointing faf to this script instead of to the steam run file : https://gist.github.com/p4block/8d947f85fa707b433af359a699b367fb