TechT10n
Published
The game defaulted to extremely low graphics settings and resolution. Adjusted everything up as high as it would go, and it runs perfectly.
My only real tweak. Be sure to adjust the UI scaling up to 100%. I could not reach the entirety of my screen with my mouse until I did this.
gamemoderun mangohud %command%
Some very odd input issues when trying to switch between between 1080 and 1440p Basically the mouse input was not occuring in the location where my cursor was. To make it even stranger, the specific location relative to the mouse cursor was not consistent. If I canged the dropdown to any other resolutoin, the mouse input moved to a semingly random location relative to my cursor. This lead to problems clicking the save button as it was beyond the boundary of this mysterious "ghost" cursor. For this reason I could not actually save my settings and had to stick with 1080p on my 1440 monitor.
Was experiencing desync issues in every game online.
I ran the scrpt that some others here have found, and it cleared up my issues.
https://gist.github.com/reneklacan/7825b82723bf0534cbd2eae014e121ca#file-aoe4-mp-fix-sh
Manual graphic quality and resolution changes were required, and that was a bit buggy to set. Aside from that, single player runs fine. Multiplayer was unplayable, but after running the noted script, I had no further troubles.
Game runs great out of the box, generally. Though I have had 2 random crashes to desktop in just over 8hours of gameplay. Both occurred during cutscenes, not during gameplay. I was planning to update to Nobara38 anyways. I will do that and report back at some point if things have improved for me.
--skip-launcher --vulkan
I did have a minor issue with the game crashing with a Wine "Assertion failed!" error whenever I Alt-Tabbed to a new window. This issue seems to have gone away when I switched from Proton Experimental, to Proton-GE 8-21
I've logged over 100 hours in this game so far, and loving it.
I will note that this game hits the CPU very hard (not specific to Linux), especially when you get to Act 3. I was running on a Ryzen 3600 and decided to upgrade to a 5800x3d. Before the upgrade I was getting mostly in the range of 35-50fps once I reached Act3, and with plenty of frame drops into the low 20s. Even though I had a solid GPU, lower graphical settings didn't help the situation very much. I was limited by my older CPU. The game was playable, but the stuttering was extremely noticable and annoying. Since the upgrade, my Act3 performance is boosted up to a solid 80-100fps on average, with very rare drops below 60.
If you have an older CPU, the late game might be pretty rough for you like it was for me. But this game is very much worth the cost of hardware upgrades IMO.
Tinkering required for multiplayer
Multiplayer will crash requires an extra dll to be loaded
Game plays flawlessly out of the box for single player. However, multiplayer requires an extra dll copied into the game directory in order to function properly.
Can confirm that the solution outlined here works as advertised. https://gist.github.com/jrbergen/0ce746676c4fbcc2becd6054d1bba2ed
Definitely a downgrade from windows performance, but is a solid experience after some tweaks.
gamemoderun MANGOHUD=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
For the most part it looks good on ultra/high settings at a solid 40+ framerate. But I did notice a dithering effect in shadowy areas. It personally doesn't bother me too much, but it was noticable enough that I think some people who have a sharper eye for this kind of thing might find it distracting.
Vulkan shaders took forever to load and pushed all cpu cores to near 100.
I had to enable Pre-Caching in steam and also alow background processing of shaders. Without this the game was pretty unplayable. Afterwards though, it was decent.
If you can get past some minor issues with shadows, it plays well enough. But need to pre-cache shaders on this one.
Ran great with zero tweaks
The game detected my card and set everything to ultra. Ran quite smoothly, and it even pulled in my steam cloud saves without from the last time I ran it on windows.
Played great for me. No tinkering at all. Very fun. Buy this game, it's great!
I hesitated buying the game given all the mixed reports here. But I've had zero problems with it so far. The game runs very smoothly at 1440p on maxed video settings, a very stable 120fps on avg.
The in game radio defaults to be very loud and drowns out the NPCs and tutorial stuff. I was unable to find a way to toggle it off, so I just opted to turn the radio volume down to zero in the settings. This has nothing to do with the linux experience. Just figured it was annoying enough to mention.
As for the game itsself. It's really well done. Very fun space combat. You should definitely grab it and support this talented indy dev.
Runs perfectly fine
I applied no tweaks. It ran stable and consistent. Easily maintained close to 100fps.
