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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

(August 24, 2024) Launcher 2.0 Migration

  • Requires Wine Staging 9.4+ or Proton GE 9-5+ runner
  • Requires CLI mode to be enabled in Lutris after installation: Right click the game -> Configure -> System options -> CLI mode
  • Launcher 2.0 is unable to verify files, use the install button instead for now. We expect this to be resolved in the next version of Lutris
  • May require a manual install. See our wiki for instructions

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

General News

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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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