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Longer loading times, especially when entering a new area.
Long load times when entering a new area.
Experienced 1 or 2 crashes during a loading.
Initially, I was stuck at the "Watch the monitor" quest at the beginning of the game. I tried installing Proton-6.4-GE-1, Proton 5.x, Proton 4.x... but none of them helped with my problem. Then I tried installing "mf-install" + "mf-installcab" and the problem did not go away either, apparently due to a permissions error during "mf-installcab"'s installation.
Turns out the problem was the "397540" folder located in the "compatdata" folder: "/home/MyName/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/397540"
Simply delete the "397540" folder and run the game again so that it gets recreated. Then run the "mf-installcab" install again through the terminal after that.
For my Proton 6.4-GE-1 installation, I used this command in the terminal:
PROTON="/home/MyName/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/Proton-6.4-GE-1/" WINEPREFIX="/home/MyName/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/397540/pfx/" ./install-mf-64.sh -proton
After that, the in-game monitor screens started showing videos and I could proceed with the quest. The only problems left were the long loading times when entering new areas.
Awful FPS performance
Unplayable due to the abysmal framerate. Otherwise, the game seems to open and run on Linux just fine.
To get playable FPS, you'll need to set this in the launch options:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%
Shouldn't have any issues after that (save for some FPS drops, but nowhere near as bad as playing without the launch command indicated above). Online works great, too!
Runs great! Every setting maxxed out and with online play enabl, all with no issues (save for the launch sometimes not working).
gamemoderun %command%
Sometimes the game will not load (freezes on a black or white window) and will require restarting the game again until it loads successfully.
Glorious Eggroll's incorporation of the Experimental EAC fixes helped resolve the online connection issues.
If your game keeps crashing during character customization like mine did, look into increasing your file descriptor count, as instructed here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/blob/proton_6.3/README.esync
I tried playing a mod while running on Native but it kept giving me an error that it couldn't load a .dll file.
Simply switching to Proton 4.11 solved my mod compatibility issues, but menu text is now slightly scrambled. However, that's just a slight inconvenience... Everything plays perfect as if on Windows.
Asks for your e-mail but will not start up
The program runs in the background, but will not go in-game.
Slight FPS drops
There is a frame rate drop issue when transitioning into a new area. However, that problem was also present on my previous Windows 7 machine, so that means it might be a software-related problem and not necessarily due to Linux only.
The game may run with slightly lower FPS on Linux than on Windows, but for the most part it's nearly flawless.
gamemoderun %command%
Followed the guide on Reddit written by "r/ottocorrekt" to get the game running: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/y49vcz/guide_to_playing_darktide_beta_on_linux/
The game itself should run with little no problems; it's just an issue with the Microsoft software used by the game launcher which doesn't work on Linux and therefore requires bypassing.
Runs excellent; had no serious issues at all. FPS drops might occur in some circumstances.
6.12-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
Sometimes FPS will drop significantly in multiplayer games.
The launcher is very stubborn; it may take multiple tries to get the game to launch.
Ever since the Operation Meghna update, performance took a nosedive and I've lost a good chunk of my usual framerates.
Loss of 15~30 FPS (varying depending on the area of a map) when I had around 60 pre-Operation Meghna update. Additional slowdown may occur & persist the longer I stay in the game. This issue can only be resolved by restarting the game.
Starting in Vulkan mode (which others have mentioned supposedly comes with better performance) only manages to crash my game upon a map load!
