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Welcome, Space Penguins!

This wiki is a collection of information on how to run Star Citizen on Linux, as well as our tips and tricks!
We welcome contributions. Feel free to fork this repo and submit a PR.

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Contents

News

Game Updates

Warning

(Oct 20, 2024) Vulkan crashes in 3.24.1/3.24.2

  • Possible error similar to: Fatal Error: Acquire Next Image Failed
  • If you experience this, we recommend remaining on DX11 for now

Important

(Oct 4, 2024) Easy Anticheat Enforcement

  • CIG has enabled EAC enforcement on the PTU. We have an experimental fix that also works on LIVE and it needs testing.
  • Please follow our migration instructions and report back on our Discord's #Development channel.

Tip

(Sept 27, 2024) Launcher 2.0 Migration

  • Requires standard Wine 9.4+ or Proton GE 9-13+ runner
    • Recent Wine versions can be easily installed from the Kron4ek runner source in the LUG Helper
  • In Lutris, right click the game->Configure->Runner options, remove the following DLL override:
    • powershell.exe: disabled
  • If using standard Wine, the latest git release of winetricks is required for the powershell patches. Update your prefix path in the following commands and run:
    • Run sudo winetricks --self-update to update winetricks
    • Run WINEPREFIX=$HOME/Games/star-citizen winetricks powershell to install powershell
  • If using standard Wine, CLI mode must be enabled in Lutris
    • Right click the game -> Configure -> System options -> Toggle on advanced options -> CLI mode
  • The 2.0 Launcher may need to be installed manually. See our wiki for instructions

Important

(Aug 23, 2024) Vulkan Beta: Limited performance with KDE on Wayland

General News

Warning

(Sept 21, 2024) Wine-staging causes launcher to hang when downloading base pack, may cause game crashes

  • We recommend using standard Wine instead of Wine-staging
  • Recent Wine versions can be easily installed from the Kron4ek runner source in the LUG Helper

Note

(Sept 1, 2024) GE Proton (Latest) is the new umu proton

  • If you wish to use the new Proton integration in Lutris, see below for umu Proton migration steps
  • Note that umu has not yet seen a stable release
  • umu does not yet run on ubuntu due to AppArmor
  • We currently recommend using either your system Wine or a standard Wine installed using our Helper
  • If switching to standard Wine from a GE runner, CLI mode must be enabled in Lutris
    • Right click the game -> Configure -> System options -> Toggle on advanced options -> CLI mode

Tip

(Aug 25, 2024) Lutris umu Proton/Protonfixes Migration

  • Install Lutris v0.5.17 or later
  • Right click the game, select Configure, and then adjust settings as follows:
  • In Runner options, set Wine version to GE-Proton (Latest)
  • In Runner options, remove the following DLL override:
    • powershell.exe: disabled
  • In System options, add the following environment variables:
    • GAMEID: umu-starcitizen
    • PROTONPATH: GE-Proton
  • Other environment variables can be updated/removed if desired by comparing against those set for a new install in our install json
  • If using Lutris v0.5.17, in System options, toggle on advanced options and then add the following to "Command prefix" to work around a bug:
    • GAMEID=umu-starcitizen PROTONPATH=GE-Proton
  • If using Lutris v0.5.17, install gamemode from your distro's package manager and enable it in Lutris to work around a bug
  • In System options, toggle on advanced options and then disable CLI mode

Warning

(May 4, 2024) Game Crash on launch from main menu

  • Linux kernel 6.8.9 can result in a crash when launching from main menu, may be accompanied by a popup including text "Assertion failed!"
    • To fix: revert to kernel 6.8.8, update to 6.9+, or enable ReBar if your hardware supports it

Warning

(Jan 15, 2024) Installer Error Code 256

  • Lutris version 5.15 had a critical bug preventing successful installations of games
    • To fix: update to latest Lutris 5.17

Important

(Nov 11, 2023) Failed to Initialize Dependencies

  • If you are on a rolling release distro and using Gamescope, you may receive this error due to a bug in Gamescope v3.12.7. See this Github issue for more info.
    • To fix: Install the git release of Gamescope or downgrade to 3.12.5 until the fix is released to stable.

AMD News

Note

(Apr 29, 2024) Vulkan Beta: Bright flickering lights at edges of in-game display panels

  • To fix: Add environment variable radv_zero_vram=true

Nvidia News

Warning

(Oct 9, 2024) Black screen

  • Wine 9.18 introduced a regression for Nvidia in how it handles Vulkan
  • Downgrade to 9.17 or apply the patch until it is fixed

Warning

(Apr 29, 2024) Vulkan Beta: Game fails to launch

  • There is an issue with LibCUDA that prevents vulkan and DLSS from working on linux.
  • If using Wine-GE, add the environment variable WINE_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1 to enable vulkan
  • If using Wine or Wine-GE, see instructions to patch libcuda to enable both vulkan and DLSS

Caution

(Oct 9, 2023) Crash when taking shield damage in-game

  • There is a shield rendering bug that causes the game to crash. It seems to affect 1000 series cards.
  • There is currently no known workaround other than switching cards. We recommend AMD.

Easy Anti-Cheat

Note

(Feb 12, 2022) Easy Anti-Cheat is live.

  • CIG is aware of the problem but there is still no ETA. There are currently no consequences that we are aware of for using the workaround, but CIG has suggested that eventually people will be kicked for tripping EAC. The workaround is automatically configured for new installs through Lutris.

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