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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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🗨 Discord: https://discord.gg/meCFYPj
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Contents

News

Game Updates

Warning

(Oct 25, 2024) Vulkan crashes in 3.24.1/3.24.2

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

Warning

(Oct 25, 2024) Launcher installation hangs at Updating Game Content

  • The 2.0 Launcher seems to sometimes hang during this phase of the install process
  • Completely quit the launcher, ensuring no lingering wine processes remain, then verify files

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.

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

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

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
  • Update to Wine 9.20

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
  • Proton enables 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.

Star Citizen Linux Users Group

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