Edanin
Published
Does not finish loading into the game
Menu works fine, can select heroes, but it never fully loads.
Game does not start
Can confirm recent reports of game not starting. I get a black screen, then back to desktop. Tried multiple proton versions with no effect.
Game would start, I was able to select and start mission, but then was hit by black screen. The way I fixed it was to right click the game in the taskbar, hit 'Close' and then the game would prompt me whether I wanted to 'Exit' or 'Cancel', after which I was able to hit Cancel and play the mission.
Haven't found a way yet
PROTON_NO_D3D11=1 %command%
Tried various Proton versions including Experimental and the newest GE. Tried a couple of launch options. Tried running the executable manually through wine and lutris. Nothing got past the launcher.
Attempted running in 32 bit wine prefix, still broken
Followed instructions in this reddit comment https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/eggnql/distant_worlds_universe_in_wine/fcj4jow/ but no dice. Using wine 5.16 (staging).
Follow Maz's report here or https://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming/comments/eggnql/distant_worlds_universe_in_wine/fcj4jow/ on reddit. It works now, though I do not recall doing anything differently from before. Using wine-staging 6.3 32bit. Tested saving/loading, tutorials, playing normally for a while. All works. The only issue I've faced so far is with the Galactopedia, which doesn't seem to switch pages very well.
Game starts but all I get is a black screen
Tried different proton versions (5.9 GE and 4.11) and they did not work either.
Crashes after intro video
Tried multiple proton versions and graphics settings. With standard proton 5.0.9 it crashes after the 'Press spacebar to skip' message (no intro video). With 5.9 GE it plays the intro video but crashes immediately after.
Performance is really bad. Controller is also highly recommended but it only seems to properly detect an XBOX controller.
Detects XBOX controller even though I am using PS4 controller.
Game is nigh unplayable on my system. Constant frame drops.
Runs perfectly on high at 1440p with my hardware which is surprising given some reviews complaining about PC slowness.
Only crashed once in 80 minutes. I suspect this is largely not related to playing on Linux but just first-day jank.
Normal proton (7.0-6) also seems to work fine, but I played the most with Proton GE
I didn't have to do any tinkering at all to get this to work. It works in vulkan for me.
Despite many other reports mentioning they had to switch to dx12, this worked in vulkan for me with default settings (maybe an AMD thing). The only problem I am experiencing is audio crackling which only started after the first update.
Game works great with all the default settings. Performance is great, no crashes. Fonts are a bit weird but readable.
Fonts are a bit weird but not nearly as bad as older reports
Must alt-tab twice
Have not tried multiplayer or journey but I don't expect that they'll work (as per older reports)
