DeathnTaxes242
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Multi Nvidia GPU setups will not work correctly. Likely bug in steam or NVIDIA driver pack. I tried NVIDIA driver version 545, 550, 555, and 560 experimental with no success. Pulling GPU B made everything functional. Debugging and tinkering suggests Steam is booting and attempting to use multiple NVIDIA GPU's at the same time despite GPU B being a compute GPU with no display plugged in. Games failed to launch on both DX11 and DX12 while 2 NVIDIA GPU's were installed. No amount of tinkering, begging, or smashing would make it work at all. I even resorted to full kernel rollbacks, i tested with Fedora 40 KDE kernel-core Versions 6.8.5,6.9,5.11,6.11,6.1 and 6.5 all to no avail. Game WILL boot and run (albeit like shit) when non NVIDIA driver is loaded while multiple GPU's are installed.
Game works out of box IF system contains only 1 NVIDIA GPU. Did not test with mixed GPU chips but will if there is interest.
I built my own version without steam, much better than steam with proton or linux runtime.
I wrote a custom wrapper script and derivation that will soon be available in the nix pkg manager under version 24.11 (current) and i will make a version available through backports as well.
This runs natively on NixOS and should run natively on any linux distro using the nixpkg manager. Install the nix pkg manager, and then install pkgs.WarThunder as a system package and execute it as a normal user either from terminal like WarThunder or from the dekstop executable made available through the drv.
You can get it now through my github in the demon branch, https://github.com/Mephist0phel3s/nixpkgs and install the default.nix as a local drv before its officially released and play normally. Please report any bugs to me @ https://github.com/Mephist0phel3s/nixpkgs/issues
This version runs significantly better than the port available through steam, and if you already have a steam account, link it with gaijin and then run this game through the client and sign in through steam.
