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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

Tip

(Aug 24, 2024) Launcher 2.0 Migration

  • There are still some isses with the 2.0 launcher. The old launcher will continue to work while those issues get sorted out. If you want to try the 2.0 launcher anyway, you can use the steps below
  • Requires Wine Staging 9.4+ or Proton GE 9-5+ runner
    • Wine Staging can be easily installed from the Kron4ek runner source in the LUG Helper
  • Probably requires the latest git release of winetricks for the powershell patches
  • If using Wine Staging, CLI mode must be enabled in Lutris
    • Right click the game -> Configure -> System options -> CLI mode
  • Launcher 2.0 is unable to verify files. Use the install button instead for now
  • 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

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
  • We currently recommend using either your system wine or wine-staging, which can be installed using our Helper
  • If switching to your system wine or wine-staging from a GE runner, CLI mode must be enabled in Lutris
    • Right click the game -> Configure -> System 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 System options, add the following environment variables:
    • EOS_USE_ANTICHEATCLIENTNULL: 1
    • GAMEID: umu-starcitizen
    • STORE: none
    • 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, add the following to "Command prefix":
    • GAMEID=umu-starcitizen STORE=none
  • In System options, disable CLI mode
  • In Runner options, set Wine version to GE-Proton (Latest)
  • In Runner options, disable Use system winetricks

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 ingame RTT display panels
    • To fix: Add environment variable radv_zero_vram=true

Nvidia News

Warning

(Apr 29, 2024) Vulkan Beta

  • Game fails to launch with vulkan renderer enabled
    • Use latest wine-GE 8-26+
    • Add environment variable WINE_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1
  • There is an issue with LibCUDA that prevents DLSS from working on linux. See instructions to patch libcuda to enable 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.

Star Citizen Linux Users Group

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