Running Elite Dangerous on Linux Mint in 2024

[Helmut Grokenberger]

The best way I found to get the whole thing going in VR on Linux is to download ALVR from ( ) and download it to your headset the ALVR app, launch the ALVR installer to install the latest version and then run it on the headset. Once this is done it will ask you to start ALVR on your PC once this is done you have to click "Trust" when detects your headset to recognise it and then you can start SteamVR (you may get a black screen on the headset at first if so add
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command% to the command line of the SteamVR app and restart it this should then bring up VR as normal and allow you to play ED in VR under Linux

Which assumes you have a standalone headsets. Apparently the state of running tethered headsets like the G2 is much worse than running those supported by ALVR, in large part thanks to nvidia...

 

[alexzk]

Also steam had long standing bug, when you move mouse with disabled their overlay. In about 20-30 minutes games were lagging. Elite was not affected, but root cause of that was input buffer overflow

lag spikes after 25-40 minutes of playing on linux · Issue #11446 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux

A lot of details are already collected in: doitsujin/dxvk#4436 it could be related for a LD_PRELOAD added for the "record your game" feature? the workaround while we wait for the fix please see thi...

github.com

My favorite solution was to block that thing totally:

Some scripts, if you want to try. If you do, steam will try & fail self update on each run.
Lock / unlock update and restart Steam client.

Spoiler: Block the thing

#!/bin/bash
#Change the path to actual you have
cd /home/alex/.steam/steam

function lock {
if [[ -f ./gameoverlayrenderer.so ]]; then
sudo chmod -r -w -x ./gameoverlayrenderer.so
sudo chattr -i ./gameoverlayrenderer.so
else
echo "There is no file."
fi
}

pushd ubuntu12_32
lock
popd

pushd ubuntu12_64
lock
popd

Spoiler: Unlock all back

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/alex/.steam/steam


function unlock {
sudo chattr -i ./gameoverlayrenderer.so
sudo chmod +rw ./gameoverlayrenderer.so
sudo rm ./gameoverlayrenderer.so
}

pushd ubuntu12_32
unlock
popd

pushd ubuntu12_64
unlock
popd

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Also steam had long standing bug, when you move mouse with disabled their overlay. In about 20-30 minutes games were lagging. Elite was not affected, but root cause of that was input buffer overflow

lag spikes after 25-40 minutes of playing on linux · Issue #11446 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux

A lot of details are already collected in: doitsujin/dxvk#4436 it could be related for a LD_PRELOAD added for the "record your game" feature? the workaround while we wait for the fix please see thi...

github.com

My favorite solution was to block that thing totally:

Some scripts, if you want to try. If you do, steam will try & fail self update on each run.
Lock / unlock update and restart Steam client.

Ahem... just remember, not everyone is called alex.

You can replace the home folder name with ~

 

[alexzk]

Ahem... just remember, not everyone is called alex.

You can replace the home folder name with ~

Yes, it will be valid only for bash script. Had many hard-to-find issues, like using "~" in C++ code to open file ...so I don't use it.
In this case it is copy-pasted output of "pwd".
Any way, I added comment there "change to real path"

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Yes, it will be valid only for bash script. Had many hard-to-find issues, like using "~" in C++ code to open file ...so I don't use it.
In this case it is copy-pasted output of "pwd".
Any way, I added comment there "change to real path"

Just reminds me of all those IT support calls where people having problems and wanted to link me a file said they could find the file they were having problems with at C:\Documents and Settings\Janice\Documents\Monthly Report.xls

 

[alexzk]

Just reminds me of all those IT support calls where people having problems and wanted to link me a file said they could find the file they were having problems with at C:\Documents and Settings\Janice\Documents\Monthly Report.xls

In fact, trick it is to use "chattr" there. That's all you need. Otherwise steam deletes file and creates new avoiding permissions locks.