How to install ED on Linux using Wine [EXPERIMENTAL, NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED]

Noobilite

Noobilite
Is anyone suddenly having problems with the launcher not be logged in and and not taking your password to log in again?!

Don't now if this is odd, but my launcher says, "Single player combat training" at the top.

I can get into the demo though.

Edit: NVM, it's auto logging back in for me. But it says issue detected. I guess there servers are down or something weirder is happening. Did I just happen to alt tab and crash my game when they were going down for bug fixes? I did not see any messages.

Potential solution: I entered demo mode and it asked to make a hardware test thing to determine settings. Afterwords login happened as normal.
 
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Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Noobilite said:
Is anyone suddenly having problems with the launcher not be logged in and and not taking your password to log in again?!

Don't now if this is odd, but my launcher says, "Single player combat training" at the top.

I can get into the demo though.

Edit: NVM, it's auto logging back in for me. But it says issue detected. I guess there servers are down or something weirder is happening. Did I just happen to alt tab and crash my game when they were going down for bug fixes? I did not see any messages.

Potential solution: I entered demo mode and it asked to make a hardware test thing to determine settings. Afterwords login happened as normal.
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It was this : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/launcher-failing-to-synchronize.509943/
 

Noobilite

Noobilite
4.6 staging from winehq had a problem with the vram maxing out for me no matter the settings. It would then crash if you alt tabed out and tried to get back in. This appears to be better with 4.7. I ran it at default ultra settings and it hovered around 95% in station and I could alt tab out and back in. But if I put the setting for the gpu to pull more weight to max it would hit 99% and crash on alt tabbing back in. Although very slowly like it used to.

Does anyone know what causes this? Is this wine, the game, the os, or the hardware? Shouldn't the card be able to alt tab at maximum vram usage in normal ideal use?

Either way 4.6 had massive problems with alt tabbing.

It still seems to be slowly filling up and then crashing. Even at low settings. But it gives more time to alt tab. So far, I can play if I don't alt tab out. Don't have a workable secondary monitor though.
 
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Jack Winter

Jack Winter
At least it seems like the problem with the controller not being recognized has been fixed with the April update. Hope I wasn't premature in posting..:)

The other day the game seemed to work ok, have just installed patch 1 and game keeps crashing, but I'll try later when the servers are more stable.
 

EUS

EUS
Quick question, when I run a -s install for winetricks, debian wants to install a few no-name video drivers too.
They won't interfere with my current X setup (or whatever it's called these days) that has nvidia drivers installed and working properly, will they?
 

EdVaessen

E
I upgraded to Kubuntu 19.04 (kernel 5.0.0-13-generic)
Following the instructions of https://github.com/redmcg/wine/wiki/Wine, I installed:
wine-4.7 (Staging)
winetricks version 20181203
Running the command wine64 EDLaunch.exe /novr /steam in the elite directory failed for the first time on Kubuntu (used 18.10 before):

0009:err:module:fixup_imports_ilonly mscoree.dll not found, IL-only binary L"EDLaunch.exe" cannot be loaded

Using wine64 winecfg, in Libraries, I changed the mscoree from a native version to a Builtin (Wine) version.
This brought me only little further:

009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"configSections" in state 2
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"sectionGroup" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"section" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"enforceFIPSPolicy" in state 4
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"userSettings" in state 2
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"CobraBay.Properties.Settings" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"setting" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"value" in state 6
The entry point method could not be loaded due to Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies.

Anyone else having problems with wine-4.7 staging?
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
EdVaessen said:
I upgraded to Kubuntu 19.04 (kernel 5.0.0-13-generic)
Following the instructions of https://github.com/redmcg/wine/wiki/Wine, I installed:
wine-4.7 (Staging)
winetricks version 20181203
Running the command wine64 EDLaunch.exe /novr /steam in the elite directory failed for the first time on Kubuntu (used 18.10 before):

0009:err:module:fixup_imports_ilonly mscoree.dll not found, IL-only binary L"EDLaunch.exe" cannot be loaded

Using wine64 winecfg, in Libraries, I changed the mscoree from a native version to a Builtin (Wine) version.
This brought me only little further:

009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"configSections" in state 2
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"sectionGroup" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"section" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"enforceFIPSPolicy" in state 4
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"userSettings" in state 2
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"CobraBay.Properties.Settings" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"setting" in state 6
0009:fixme:mscoree:ConfigFileHandler_startElement Unknown element L"value" in state 6
The entry point method could not be loaded due to Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies.

Anyone else having problems with wine-4.7 staging?
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Running on Arch Linux, wine-staging 4.7 is running fine for me.
 

Carlos Sagan

C
Greetings cmdts.
Until relatively few hours ago I played Elite dangerous, in my distribution of Manjaro with the proton version of guithub 3.16-8 Beta ED, the question esque to the end of my expedition route home I began to suffer a lowering of fps and that It's not cool!

I ventured to try the official proton version of steam 4.2-3 and here I started my ordeal, the game did not work, and I tried to reinstall the game, to see which dev I added to 4.2, I need help: S

How can I enjoy the game again? I am relatively amateur in linux systems, this computer works because I hit the head every time I have to install some XD utility by console.

And the most important thing, Even if Windows is tempting is not an option, linux stays!

This message has been translated from Spanish to English using google translator, sorry for the inconvenience.​
 

VictorT

VictorT
Well, i did it. I got it working.

I've been playing for hours, literally no issues. so..many..keybindings!!

thank you all for your efforts.
 

Dummytarget

Dummytarget
Hi, just found this thread, and have a couple of questions (surprise hehe) :D

I have two accounts and I want to keep the journal log files separate as one of the accounts is in EDSM. If I use Lutris to run one account and wine for the other (both using the same Steam install), will they have have the logs in different locations? Seems that I could run EDMC from source to upload the logs and station prices etc.

On Windows I have two separate Windows users to run different accounts (both using the regular, non-Steam install) which has kept the logs and screenshots separate, and I use EDDiscovery for logs, but looks like there is no way to run EDDi natively in Linux. While I prefer EDDi, EDMC might be the way to go on Linux.

I wish we had a launcher that could handle multiple accounts, like Eve Online launcher does. Would simplify having multiple accounts a bit. I think there was talk about having multiple saves per account before the Elite launched but I guess that idea has been scrapped long time ago.
 

mpfj

mpfj
Forgive me if I've missed something, but the Wiki in the OP only seems to support Steam installs.
Via Frontier Installer
TODO
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Is there a way to install under Linux via "non-Steam" accounts ?
 

Flyinspaghetti

Flyinspaghetti
mpfj said:
Forgive me if I've missed something, but the Wiki in the OP only seems to support Steam installs.


Is there a way to install under Linux via "non-Steam" accounts ?
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The rest is correct for a non steam install, just frontier changed the download location of their install client making the old method that I think was on that page obsolete.

For the installation of the client, if you own a Frontier version (not steam) you now have to download the newest client installer via your Frontier account under my downloadable products.

Then simply create a new prefix with: WINEPREFIX=~/ED_pfx winecfg

Then close the winecfg box, cd to the Downloads folder where the ED installer is then run: WINEPREFIX=~/ED_pfx wine64 EliteDangerous-Client-Installer.exe

Once you've installed it the rest of that page must be followed in order to get it up running.
 

Newt Loranas

Newt Loranas
Can someone help. I don't understand what's going on.

I'm trying to get this installed but when I do -

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winetricks dotnet40 dxvk win7

I get the error message

dotnet40 install completed, but installed file /home/ruth/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/ngen.exe not found

Do I just ignore this?

I manually found the folder with ngen.exe in it and it was indeed there. so I deleted it and ran the command again but now the folder has not reappeared and I'm getting the same error message.
 

Flyinspaghetti

Flyinspaghetti
Newt Loranas said:
Can someone help. I don't understand what's going on.

I'm trying to get this installed but when I do -

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winetricks dotnet40 dxvk win7

I get the error message

dotnet40 install completed, but installed file /home/ruth/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/ngen.exe not found

Do I just ignore this?

I manually found the folder with ngen.exe in it and it was indeed there. so I deleted it and ran the command again but now the folder has not reappeared and I'm getting the same error message.
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Try deleting the .wine prefix in your home folder and starting with a fresh prefix with WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg

I assume your using latest versions of wine/winetricks? If not older versions can cause issues when installing .Net.
 

Newt Loranas

Newt Loranas
Flyinspaghetti said:
Try deleting the .wine prefix in your home folder and starting with a fresh prefix with WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg

I assume your using latest versions of wine/winetricks? If not older versions can cause issues when installing .Net.
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I'd noticed that one of your posts mentioned that the game works in proton so I'm going to try that.


elite is already installed in steam in linux - ( updating atm ) how do I use winetricks to install dotnet and vcrun2015

That is..w hat is the prefix I should feed to winetricks to make it play ball?

And how do I then run the game?
 
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