truckersmp-cli

A simple launcher for TruckersMP to play ATS or ETS2 in multiplayer.

truckersmp-cli allows to download TruckersMP and handles starting TruckersMP through Wine while supporting the Windows versions of American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2.

The Windows version of Steam should already be able to run in the same Wine prefix. The Windows versions of ATS and ETS2 can be installed and updated via SteamCMD while all running Steam processes will be stopped to prevent Steam from loosing connection. Your Steam password and guard code are required by SteamCMD once for this to work.

On Linux it's possible to start TruckersMP through Proton. A working native Steam installation is needed for this which has the desired game installed or with an update pending. SteamCMD can use your saved credentials for convenience.

Known issues

• When Proton is used, DLCs don't work without installing the native version of the game. A pending download is also sufficient. For the details, see issue #253.
• If D3D11 rendering backend is used, TruckersMP login screen is not shown without Windows native 64-bit d3dcompiler_47.dll
  • truckersmp-cli will automatically download and set up the Windows native dll when D3D11 is used
• If Steam is running while SteamCMD is being used the Steam client looses all connections and maybe asks for the password and the guard code at the next startup. This script closes all Steam processes before acting with SteamCMD so starting an update with a shortcut out of the Steam client won't work because Steam waits for the script to finish and the script waits for Steam to quit.
• If there are game MOD files with German umlauts ü and ß in filename, game crashes on German locale. For the details, see issue #248.

Install

From repository (recommended)

System repository (recommended)

If available install from your repository. Updates will ship through your normal system update process.

Python Package Index

Operation	System-wide	Per-user (recommended)
Installation	python3 -m pip install truckersmp-cli	python3 -m pip install --user truckersmp-cli
Optional dependencies	python3 -m pip install truckersmp-cli[optional]	python3 -m pip install --user truckersmp-cli[optional]
Update	python3 -m pip install truckersmp-cli --upgrade	python3 -m pip install --user truckersmp-cli --upgrade
Additional information	This usually requires root permission and can interfere with other python packages installed through your normal repository so be careful.	Make sure the binary path (e.g. $HOME/.local/bin) is in your $PATH.

Manual download

You can get the latest pre-built release from the release page and decompress it into the desired folder. This version is capable to update itself by running --self-update so make sure it's placed in a folder where your user has write permissions.

Runtime dependencies

Required

• python in version 3.6 (released in December 2016) or later
• sdl2 in x86_64
• steam either the native Linux version in use with Proton or the Windows Steam in use with Wine

Optional

• pkg_resources (part of setuptools) to get the version information from the Python package
• vdf to automatically detect the steam account with saved credentials
• wine as a possible replacement to Proton

Syntax

$ truckersmp-cli (options...) [action] [game name]

Actions

Name	Description
start	Start game
update	Update/install latest game
downgrade	Downgrade game (install game from temporary_X_Y branch)
updateandstart (or ustart)	update + start (Default)
downgradeandstart (or dstart)	downgrade + start
kill	Kill running processes in the same Wine prefix

Game names

Name	Game
ets2mp	ETS2 multiplayer (Default)
ets2	ETS2 singleplayer
atsmp	ATS multiplayer
ats	ATS singleplayer

Options

Short option	Long option	Description
-h	--help	Show help
-b VERSION	--beta VERSION	Set game version to VERSION, useful for downgrading (e.g. temporary_1_35)
-c FILE	--configfile FILE	Use alternative configuration file Default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/truckersmp-cli/truckersmp-cli.conf
-f	--flatpak-steam	Use Flatpak version of Steam with Proton Note: Currently Steam Runtime is not supported and will be disabled
-g DIR	--gamedir DIR	Choose a different directory for the game files Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/(Game name)/data
-i APPID	--proton-appid APPID	Choose a different AppID or version name ("X.Y" format) of Proton (Needs an update for changes)
-l LOG	--logfile LOG	Write log into LOG, -vv option is recommended Default: Empty string (only stderr) Note: Messages from Steam/SteamCMD won't be written, only from this script See #game-logs for game log locations.
-m DIR	--moddir DIR	Choose a different directory for the mod files Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/TruckersMP
-n NAME	--account NAME	Steam account name to use
-o DIR	--protondir DIR	Choose a different Proton directory Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Proton
-p	--proton	Start the game with Proton Default on Linux if neither Proton or Wine are specified
-r {auto,dx11,gl}	--rendering-backend {auto,dx11,gl}	Choose a rendering backend Default: auto OpenGL is used when rendering-backend is not specified for the game in the configuration file
-v	--verbose	Verbose output none: error, once: info, twice or more: debug
-w	--wine	Start the game with Wine Default on systems other than linux if neither Proton or Wine are specified
-x DIR	--prefixdir DIR	Choose a different directory for the prefix Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/(Game name)/prefix
(Not available)	--check-windows-steam	Check for the Windows Steam version on updating when using Proton
(Not available)	--disable-proton-overlay	Disable Steam Overlay when using Proton
(Not available)	--disable-steamruntime	Don't use Steam Runtime even when using Proton 5.13 or newer
(Not available)	--download-throttle SPEED	Limit download speed to SPEED (KiB/s), disabled if negative value is specified Default: -1
(Not available)	--game-options OPTIONS	Specify ATS/ETS2 options Default: -nointro -64bit Note: If specifying only one option, use --game-options=-option format
(Not available)	--native-steam-dir	Choose native Steam installation, useful only if your Steam directory is not detected automatically Default: auto
(Not available)	--self-update	Update files to the latest release and quit
(Not available)	--skip-update-proton	Skip updating already-installed Proton when updating game with Proton enabled
(Not available)	--steamruntimedir	Choose a different Steam Runtime directory for Proton 5.13 or newer
(Not available)	--use-wined3d	Use OpenGL-based D3D11 instead of DXVK when using Proton
(Not available)	--wine-desktop SIZE	Use Wine desktop, work around resolution issue, mouse clicking won't work in other GUI apps while the game is running, SIZE must be 'WIDTHxHEIGHT' format (e.g. 1920x1080)
(Not available)	--wine-steam-dir	Choose a directory for Windows version of Steam Default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam in the prefix
(Not available)	--without-wine-discord-ipc-bridge	Don't use wine-discord-ipc-bridge for Discord Rich Presence
(Not available)	--version	Print version information and quit

Build

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Run make in the main folder to build the injector executable. Bash/zsh completion files will also be generated.
3. Optional run setup.py to manually start the installation process.

Buildtime dependencies

Required

• gcc-mingw-w64 to build the injector executable
• make

Optional

• git to clone this repo and help developing
• setuptools to run setup.py

bash/zsh completion

make generates shell completion files for bash (bash-completion) and zsh. They enable tab-completion of available positional arguments and command-line options.

System-wide installation

Shell	System-wide search paths
bash	$(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion) (e.g. /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/), /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/
zsh	/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/, /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/

• The bash-completion file truckersmp-cli.bash needs to be renamed to truckersmp-cli
• Debian-based systems are using the /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/ directory for zsh completions

Per-user installation

bash

Copy truckersmp-cli.bash to $XDG_DATA_HOME/bash-completion/completions/truckersmp-cli.

$ mkdir -p "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/bash-completion/completions"
$ cp truckersmp-cli.bash "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/bash-completion/completions/truckersmp-cli"

zsh

Copy _truckersmp-cli to a directory that is part of $fpath and run compinit.

Usage examples

Basic

Everything default

To just try out TruckersMP (ETS2) on Linux with nothing already downloaded you can simply run truckersmp-cli which will download everything needed to get you going with Proton and a native Steam installation.

Install and update Euro Truck Simulator 2

$ truckersmp-cli update ets2mp

Start American Truck Simulator with TruckersMP

$ truckersmp-cli start atsmp

How to downgrade games

When the latest game version is not compatible with TruckersMP yet, the user can downgrade the games with truckersmp-cli downgrade [game name] which installs the latest version that is supported by TruckersMP by determining the Steam game branch name by using TruckersMP Web API.

$ truckersmp-cli downgrade ets2mp

--beta option can be used to specify the branch name directly.

$ truckersmp-cli --beta temporary_1_39 downgrade ets2mp

If both options are given, the branch name from --beta option is used.

Advanced

Install, update and start TruckersMP (ATS) with Proton from a custom location

$ truckermsp-cli --gamedir "/path/to/gamedir" ustart atsmp

Start TruckersMP (ETS2) using Wine

$ truckersmp-cli --wine start ets2mp

Make sure that

• The Windows version of Steam is already running in the same Wine prefix or
• The Windows version of Steam is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam in the same Wine prefix or
• You're specifying the path to the Window version of Steam with --wine-steam-dir

Using a different prefix location

$ truckersmp-cli --proton --prefixdir "/path/to/prefix" start ets2mp
$ truckersmp-cli --wine --prefixdir "/path/to/prefix/pfx" start ets2mp

• While the prefix for Wine will point directly to the prefix location, Proton uses a subfolder pfx for the actual prefix and points to the parent folder.
• Your prefix must be 64bits, the mod is not 32bits-compatible.

Rendering backends

OpenGL (default)

• Stable and faster than wined3d. But slower than DXVK.
• Useful if you're not using Vulkan-capable GPU.

Direct3D 11 (DXVK or wined3d)

• Faster than OpenGL when DXVK is used.
  • DXVK requires Vulkan support.
  • DXVK 1.4.6 or newer is needed because older versions have rendering issue. If you're using Proton, use 4.11-10 or newer.
• Proton uses DXVK by default.
  • When using Proton, wined3d can be used by specifying --use-wined3d, but it's not recommended because this is slower than OpenGL.
• Used only when -r dx11 or --rendering-backend dx11 is given.

Configuration file

It's possible to set various game settings and third party programs in a configuration file.

The configuration file format is similar to the INI format known from Windows with several sections [section] containing key-value-pairs key = value. All sections are optional and a key-value-pair has to be in a section. Boolean values can be {yes,no}, {true,false}, {on,off} and {1,0}.

Default configuration file path

The default search path for the file is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/truckersmp-cli/truckersmp-cli.conf.

Sections for game modes

Supported sections are [ats], [atsmp], [ets2] and [ets2mp]. Settings in [DEFAULT] will be applied to all game modes if the game mode specific sections exist.

Optional game mode settings

Key-Value-Pair	Description
without-rich-presence = [boolean]	Disable Discord Rich Presence for the game mode - overriding what is set in third party sections. Default: no
game-directory = [path]	Choose a different directory for the game files Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/(Game name)/data
prefix-directory = [path]	Choose a different directory for the prefix Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/(Game name)/prefix
game-options = [options]	Specify ATS/ETS2 options Default: -nointro -64bit
rendering-backend = {auto,dx11,gl}	Choose a rendering backend Default: auto (OpenGL is used when this is not specified for the game in the configuration file)
proton-directory = [path]	Choose a different Proton directory Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Proton
steamruntime-directory = [path]	Choose a different Steam Runtime directory for Proton 5.13 or newer
disable-steamruntime = [boolean]	Don't use Steam Runtime even when using Proton 5.13 or newer Default: no
disable-proton-overlay = [boolean]	Disable Steam Overlay when using Proton Default: no
log-file = [path]	Write log into the specified file, -vv option is recommended Default: Empty string (only stderr) Note: Messages from Steam/SteamCMD won't be written, only from this script (Game logs are written into My Documents/{ETS2,ATS}MP/logs/client_*.log)
truckersmp-directory = [path]	Choose a different directory for the mod files Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/TruckersMP

Sections for third party programs

Third party programs in the configuration file will get started together with the game. Sections should follow the format [thirdparty.gamemode.programname] (one game mode) or [thirdparty.programname] (all game modes).

Required third party settings

Key-Value-Pair	Description
executable = /path/to/my.exe	Path to the executable where the path is either an absolute unix path (/path/to/my.exe), a relative unix path (program/my.exe) to $XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/ or an absolute windows path (C:\Program Files (x86)\program\my.exe) within the prefix.

Optional third party settings

Key-Value-Pair	Description
wait = [seconds]	Set a minimal waiting time before the game will be started so third party programs have enough time to fully start up and log in.
wants-rich-presence = [boolean]	Set that a program supports Discord Rich Presence.

Example configuration file

# Common settings
# Game mode specific sections are needed too to apply these settings
[DEFAULT]
# D3D11 will be enabled in all games
rendering-backend = dx11
# Use unofficial version of Proton in all games
proton-directory = /path/to/proton-tkg-6.8
# Disable Steam Runtime as a workaround
disable-steamruntime = true

# Forbid Discord Rich Presence in multiplayer of ETS2
[ets2mp]
without-rich-presence = true

# Even if there are no game specific settings for ATSMP,
# the empty section is needed if the user wants to apply the settings
# in the "[DEFAULT]" section
[atsmp]

# Game mode specific settings for ETS2 singleplayer
[ets2]

# Use custom game options only when starting singleplayer of ATS
[ats]
game-options = -mm_pool_size 600 -nointro -64bit

# Start Trucky together with all game modes (ats, atsmp, ets2, ets2mp)
# and wait at least 45 seconds before starting the game
[thirdparty.trucky]
executable = /home/user/Downloads/trucky/trucky.exe
wait = 45

# Start TrucksBook together with ets2mp while waiting at least 30 seconds
# before starting the game
[thirdparty.ets2mp.trucksbook]
executable = C:\Program Files (x86)\TrucksBook Client\TB Client.exe
wait = 30

# Start a program from "$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/my program/" and
# set that Discord Rich Presence is supported for this program
[thirdparty.ets2.program]
executable = my program/executable.exe
wants-rich-presence = true

Default files/directories

truckersmp-cli configuration file

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/truckersmp-cli/truckersmp-cli.conf

Game data

Game	Path
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/

Wineprefix

Game	Path
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/

Profile / Savegame

Game	Proton	Wine
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/profiles/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/profiles/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/profiles/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/profiles/

Game logs

Game	Proton	Wine
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/game.log.txt	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/game.log.txt
ATSMP	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/ATSMP/logs/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/ATSMP/logs/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/game.log.txt	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/game.log.txt
ETS2MP	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/ETS2MP/logs/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/ETS2MP/logs/

Singleplayer mods and ProMods

Game	Proton	Wine
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/mod/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/American Truck Simulator/mod/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/mod/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/Euro Truck Simulator 2/mod/

Season (weather) mods for ETS2MP/ATSMP

Game	Proton	Wine
ATS	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/ATSMP/mod/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/American Truck Simulator/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/ATSMP/mod/
ETS2	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/ETS2MP/mod/	$XDG_DATA_HOME/truckersmp-cli/Euro Truck Simulator 2/prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/(os_login_name)/My Documents/ETS2MP/mod/

See TruckersMP Knowledge Base.

Credits

• I was greatly inspired by mewrev's Inject tool and TheUnknownNO's unofficial TruckersMP-Launcher.
• Amit Malik's article on dll injection was also a great help.
• kakurasan and Lucki for the helper script.