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No difference to playing on windows, game is capped at 60fps. Some major stuttering in menus but had same issue on windows.
Runs better on linux than on windows and i play on the high preset on linux, used to play on medium with some lower aspects
Aside from changing to proton experimental (which i do anyway for all my steam games, except for a few) everything worked out of the box
To play this game on a stable frame rate on Steam deack you will need to edit a INI file located in. /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1790600/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/SparkingZERO/Saved/Config/Windows/
add the following text to the Engine.ini to get the game to run better with no slowdown. [/script/engine.engine] FixedFrameRate=40
[SystemSettings] bUseFixedFrameRate=True bSmoothFrameRate=False FixedFrameRate=40 FrameRateLimit=40
after doing the above fixes.The game will run great at Medium setting and even with the new update will work for online play.
gamescope -W 5120 -H 1440 -r 240 -o 240 --force-grab-cursor -f --hdr-enabled -- %command%
I use gamescope to use HDR on my system, game works without it. Online mode was recently fixed, which was the only portion broken for linux since launch. Hopefully the devs let us keep playing online now that they've opened the gates.
Some low-quality textures (probably something I haven't changed yet)
Works flawlessly in all of its modes. Launch it on experimental to ensure compatibility and a great experience
If you're having issues, specificially with multiplayer, try running it under Proton Experimental
Dialed back graphics settings.
Stuttering/frame skipping. Lowering graphics settings alleviated this.
Update on the last report: as of now with the latest update of the game, online is now fully functioning.
Since the release of the patch from december 20th I was able to play online through out the match without fail and every other match forward. Both offline and online are now playable.
No working online might turn away some but 40fps SinglePlayer with mods is the perfect BT4 for me.
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dsound.dll=n,b" %command%
The game will masively slow down when playing under 60fps IF you don't use the Engine.ini fix. Once you apply the fix, playing with all graphic settings on low-med with 80~ resolution will get you 40fps~. Could get much higher if your willing to sacrifice visuals.
Sometimes when clicking on something in the menu, the game will softlock and require a restart. It's pretty uncommon from my experience tho.
The Launch Option is only needed for Mods and is completely useless otherwise.
gamemoderun mangohud %command%
Online play doesn't work at all
Game runs perfect if you don't mind only playing singleplayer/local multiplayer
Online not supported
So, as far as offline gameplay it works perfectly, but any online matches gets canceled on the begining of the fight
Online not available, but more than playable
Maybe due to anticheat, online matches crash.
However the game is perfect, I have it both on my Arch and Windows partition and it actually works better on Arch.
Cannot play online
Buy it only if all you care about is the campaign and local multiplayer
Online doesn't work
Runs without issues under EndeavourOS. Singleplayer works great. Multiplayer timed out the second a match started,
Returning to Linux after some time, I had a bit of a hassle getting Sparking! Zero running and found that it works without any tinkering under Arch (EndeavourOS in my case).
Singleplayer all works great. There was some slight framedrops upon first hitting the main menu but everything sped up to normal speed after about 10 seconds.
From a quick glance at the leaderboard which had a #1 ranked player with only ~200 wins (odd for such a popular game) and the lack of lobbies, I'm wondering if Linux players are only able to find other Linux players which some reports seem to hint at that but nothing is outright confirmed it seems. Interestingly, all of the matchmaking functionally does work such as the entire lobby system and leaderboards. Perhaps there is some check that executes at the very start of a match that can be resolved one day.
Personally, I only intend to play solo so the lack of multiplayer is no trouble for me.
For those using Ubuntu-based distros and Fedora-based distros, I tried a bunch of different variants and they all gave me trouble with launching. The game would instantly exit, not even rendering a window although it would seemingly all boot up fine with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 being required to get the game to launch. This seems to be quite hit or miss depending on your setup though as I can't find any obvious patterns from the various reports in ProtonDB.
gamemoderun %command%
Online match disconnect when playing non-linux users
The game will disconnect when playing users that are not on Linux making online modes effectively broken.
gamemoderun %command%
Upon further testing, everything about online works until you actually begin loading into a match. From there you're booted back to the lobby.
The game does actually let you search for online matches. You can find an opponent, and select your character. But upon actually loading into the match, you're booted to the lobby with a connectivity error.
-dx11 DXVK_ASYNC=1
Online does not work unless you are playing against another person using Linux
My game didn't launch without the -dx11 flag and I was experiencing stuttering until I added DXVK_ASYNC=1.
A dublagem do narrador não se inicializou, ficando apenas as falas dos personagens.
Pode acontecer de texturas acabarem faltando e um "placeholder" gigante aparece no lugar, mas isso só aconteceu uma vez nas 6 horas de jogo e foi no mar.
O jogo não dá suporte para tela cheia, apenas janela ou janela sem bordas. (eu não sei se faz parte do jogo)
Os fps caem muito em telas de carregamento. (eu não sei se faz parte do jogo)
Eu ainda não me atrevi a testar o online do jogo, então eu não sei se o problema com o online do linux continua...
オンラインに接続し対戦が始まると、行動した瞬間に接続エラーになる。
Runs OOB without launch args, story works, online works. So far performance parity with Windows 11 24H2
gamemoderun %command%
Haven't tested with official proton. Try GE-Proton if you're having issues.
Runs perfect, out of the box.
Works great out of the box. No Online muliplayer
Online play disconnects immediately. Everything else is flawless
-dx11
JUst set -dx11 in launch options if not booting worked for me. BEaring in mind I am a linux noob so maybe there is something I should be doing to get the default graphics api working but whatever.
I will remove this and re-add if I find anything else not working etc.
Online don't work
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json gamemoderun %command%
If a controller is plugged in while playing single player modes with a keyboard, the framerate slows to a crawl. I have disabled Steam Input to temporarily remedy this until Valve or Bandai-Namco fix this.
Had to turn settings on low & use the engine.ini fix, res scale on 50 for that 60fps lock with drops. still very enjoyable imo
changed engine.ini to lock different frame rates for online (yes, online does work)
ONLINE DOES WORK ON THE DECK!! It requires both/all players matching frame rates consistently and the other player has to be a linux user (whether is steamos or another distro). I was ablento get the "Connected Rivals" achievement just from deck matches.it is a rough situation as private lobbies are required, and it feels a little slow, but its still an enjoyable online experience.
I just installed the Game and launched it no proton required or tinkering needed.
mangohud %command%
Online Fights dont work.
Except Online, everything works well. Sadly this game is quite online oriented, so it heavily depends on the player if its enjoyable that way. Hopefully this gets fixed.
Game run, offline battle as well, story mode not
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
game runs on wine directx emulation, no movies playing, perhaps that is a reason
