Hey Cmdrs,
First of all thanks for the great installation guide, awesome job.
I came here to find a solution to my own problem but I see many different issues causing agony for others but mine.
Let me add some info I've figured when I had graphics performance issues:
1. Planetary base at the bottom of the pothole. It's a graphical bug but it is related to the Nvidia driver (no info about AMD). I did my research and found that the actual planet surface rendering issue exists in the Windows world too. There's a bug report form a CMDR somewhere (am sorry, didn't save the link back then) that describes the exact same issue: can't land on base, base rendered underground. In that topic he actually mentiones a bug that exists for the very latest NVidia driver that casuing the issue and reverting to one older solves the problem. I can confirm this on Ubuntu 18.04 solves the planetary surface issue.
2A. Performance/FPS is subpar even on high-end rigs. For me, salvation came from two solutions. First I have a GTX 1060 which should run the game fairly well, but it actually struggled... or something struggled in my rig causing stuttering and massive FPS drops over time. Switch ON vertical sync in game and set the FPS limit to 40 or 60 this modertates the FPS drop for me, well I have none since.
2B. And there's a second thing worth trying. I'm running Wine 4.1 Staging. The wine config has a "staging" tab, there
untick the CSMT box and
tick the VAAPI box. This skyrocketed my FPS even without the FPS limit and vsync.
3. The keyboard bindings are dead after loading the game, meaning the keyboard not responding neither in game menus nor in game, and it solved itself after once or twice restarted the game. That's pretty bad. The inconsistency of the bug ocurrence lead me to find the predefined bindings' folder and deleted all predefined key bindings which I certainly won't use XBox ctrl, etc., leaving a the file list as short as safely possible (after making a safety copy of the whole folder of course) solved this issue for me. Be aware of if you do a game file validation it will download all the missing files so you may have to do this after a bigger patch again.
4. My actual issue. I've played at the morning gametwo days ago without any trouble, but at the evening my launcher said that the game isn't installed (the game foldera are intact), installing caused a short syncing and now I have only Play Demo button. The log shows that I have no access to the full game. The Technical support asked me to reinstall but that didn't solve the issue either. I've found a reference from a tech staff that says the Windows OS must be 64bit otherwise the game will offer the demo only. While I've changed nothing in the last 2 months in the game environment (running with WINEPREFIX=/media/gary/Backup/LinuxGames/ED wine64 "c:/Program Files (x86)/Frontier/EDLaunch/EDLaunch.exe") and both my host OS (Ubuntu 18.04 and the wine are 64bit) and the OS in winecfg is set "windows 7 the ED client sees the environment as Win XP and 32bit.
Game launcher > Options > Display Hardware Suervey...
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<DxDiag>
<SystemInformation>
<Time>2/14/2019, 07:19:10</Time>
<MachineName>gary-MS-7816</MachineName>
<OperatingSystem>Windows XP Professional</OperatingSystem>
<Language>English (Regional Setting: English)</Language>
<SystemManufacturer />
<SystemModel />
<BIOS />
<Processor>Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz(8 CPUs), ~3900MHz</Processor>
<Memory>15977MB RAM</Memory>
<PageFile>5008MB used, 10968MB available</PageFile>
<WindowsDir>C:\windows</WindowsDir>
<DirectXVersion>= "DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)</DirectXVersion>
<DXSetupParameters>Not present</DXSetupParameters>
<DxDiagVersion />
<DxDiagUnicode>1</DxDiagUnicode>
<DxDiag64Bit>0</DxDiag64Bit>
</SystemInformation>
</DxDiag>
I guess it has something to do with Wine Staging and Vulkan dailies... Does anyone have a solution for this?
