Please give us a launcher for Linux. More and more games are on the same level of performance as on windows and it would be awesome to be able to launch it with 2 much workarounds. Its really only one of the few things still holding me on windows.
Greetings Netero,
i am running bdo within a native wine environment on linux manjaro cinnamon, installed arial font and dxvk, wine version is 9.12
all but the adventurer's board is running like a charm with this configuration
Greetings Netero,
i am running bdo within a native wine environment on linux manjaro cinnamon, installed arial font and dxvk, wine version is 9.12
all but the adventurer's board is running like a charm with this configuration
Is this still true? If this is the case, Id love to get off windows! I just started playing 3 days ago, and recently windows has added AD's inside system settings for gamepass, they also plan to update the stupid copilot to be a native system AI tool that has huge access to the PC. There is nothing more that Id play right now besides BDO, and a couple steam games at this moment. So please let me know anyone if this is still the case, my worst life mistake was getting windows 11... Windows 11 runs aweful, its got so much bloat you'd think you opened an app store or a mobile game with popups smh.
Is this still true? If this is the case, Id love to get off windows! I just started playing 3 days ago, and recently windows has added AD's inside system settings for gamepass, they also plan to update the stupid copilot to be a native system AI tool that has huge access to the PC. There is nothing more that Id play right now besides BDO, and a couple steam games at this moment. So please let me know anyone if this is still the case, my worst life mistake was getting windows 11... Windows 11 runs aweful, its got so much bloat you'd think you opened an app store or a mobile game with popups smh.
I bought this game on Steam when I still used Windows. I am now using the EndeavourOS Linux distro and this game runs like a dream for me. Using Proton 9.0-4 in Steam right now, and I have not had any issues with this game whatsoever. For any steam games you want to play, check protondb, it's a very handy tool.
Just wanted to share my recent experience here, too, because its such a good experience.
The game basically runs perfect - same fps and quality as on Windows, maybe even little more fps (not sure).
System:
AMD Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM, Geforce 1080
Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS
NVIDIA proprietairy drivers 550
Running BDO via STEAM using
Proton Experimental + Bleeding Edge
(no extra DXVK params or whatsoever)
With my aged hardware, I am still crazy enough to play in 4K with Remastered. Getting 40-50 fps is fine, as long as GSYNC works.
Windowed-Fullscreen works also just fine for me, no need to Fullscreen. AMD FidelityFX also definitely helps with fps (as to be expected).
Here a few problems I had to face:
Regarding GSYNC:
Ubuntu Budgie does not bring the ideal window manager for gaming, but I still choose to use it. GSYNC with budgie-wm is buggy af (flickering), so you should turn it off globally via nvidia-settings. When you are ingame, just set it on. I tried using application profiles in the nvidia-settings to just disallow GSYNC on budgie-wm but most games then also did not have GSYNC (BDO included). Instead I've set up a small script to toggle gsync globally on/off and put it on a custom keyboard shortcut - done.
Regarding AUDIO pipewire/pulseaudio:
This counts also for other games, and helped me a lot: If you ever hear some crackling sounds ingame, your audio buffer might underrun. So, I in crease the buffer length to 60 ms but just for the application I need (because the audio delay is als 60ms then instead of 10 ms or 20 ms). I don't recognize the 40ms extra delay and for me 60ms worked very well.
Simply place the respective environment variable infront of your steam command, e.g. in the launcher:
env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 /usr/bin/steam %U
This will be inherited to the games you start with steam.
Other than that, I have no issues at all, no crashes etc. To be fair, I yet have only played BDO like 20-30 hours on Linux (and years on Windows before). Going back to Windows is no option for me tho, that one is gone for good and won't be reinstalled - ever.
Pearl Abyss, please keep the awesome Proton compatibility up, and please dont ever change your anti-cheat to something that breaks it.
Since they switched from EasyAnticheat to Xigncode last year, BDO runs just fine on Linux.
I have the Steam version, with that it is basically just "install and play", because Steam takes care of installing and configuring Proton.
FPS is like 10% lower than on Windows for me, but seems a bit more stable.
Menus open smoother, too.
Only issues so far:
- To properly run with full screen window mode, I need to switch to full screen and back once after launching the game (else i get a black bar on the top of the screen)
- Sometimes the ingame browser hangs (black spirit adventure and so on)
yes, it runs with Proton experimental but the performance is bad. I have dual boot with windows so I can compare. running game on steam = 50% less FPS and its laggy overall. windows - silky smooth experience.
also most notable issue - you cnt AFK with game in tray on Linux - it keeps using all resources - dosn't suspend itself and GPU CPU RAM runs at 100% all the time like you play the game.