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I can't seem to start the binaries, when I try to run them from the terminal this appears: Failed to init bngenv: Failed to mount game path in vfs
My specs: Artix Linux, kernel 5.18.2, RX 5700XT and a Ryzen 7 3700X, Mesa version: 22.1.1

 

Thank you so much for adding this!

 

Using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with /home on XFS, Kernel 5.18.2, Mesa 22.1.1, KDE Plasma 5.25 on X11.

Intel i7-12700K with 32GB DDR4, UHD770+Radeon RX480; the game does use the discrete GPU after starting.

Overall graphical performance and menu responsiveness appears to be very low compared to the Windows version via Proton.

The game appears to stutter for long periods if I hover and keep moving the mouse pointer over the BeamNG.drive window.

Compared to the Windows Steam version the joypad (Dual Shock 4) does not seem to be detected.

Below is a performance graph from the game with this version (right click and open in new tab to see the full version). The spikes are when I tried moving the mouse on the screen.

 

Works fine here aside from no sound. R5 1600x + gtx 1060 3GB on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(edit: Program wants to send a crash report if I close it by pressing x on top right of the window, aka normal closing method)
(edit 2: time to try to get beamngpy working)

 

The game works fine, even with my steering wheel, except for the already mentioned issues, and the fact that
- enabling full screen will make the game hang (either borderless or normal fullscreen) (GNOME/Wayland through XWayland)
- enabling VSync will make the game hang
- applying graphics presets while in-game will sometimes hang/crash the game

AMD RX 580, vulkan-radeon 22.1.1-2, Arch Linux
Huge thanks to the BeamNG devs for this effort!

 

HUGE Thank you for doing this! After loading for some years it works really great. Cars are loading very fast though. As mentioned, i have no Sound.

Kubuntu 22.04 + AMD Ryzen 7 2700X + GTX 1660 Super. Also using the Nvidia Driver 510. Using X Window system.

 

Fixed that issue by removing everything from the game folder aside from levels and vehicles, then validated the game files. Now the game works perfectly, finally I can run traffic on high settings at 60 FPS
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Btw, is there some way to tell Steam to launch the Linux binaries by default?

 

This happens when I load Italy, also is it supposed to eat 16 GB of RAM?

 

Alright you devs are awesome! Beamngpy is working on linux

 

The game gets stuck on startup after "2.31946|D|GELua.core_settings_graphic.graphic| Applying graphic settings: \\.\DISPLAY1, Window, 1280 x 720 60 Hz" in terminal and only continues to load after dragging the window.

Loading any map initially caused black environments with the only textures working being the UI and sky box, but it froze as soon as they are visible. This seemed to fix itself after a few relaunches. I only got a screenshot, as I forgot to copy the log file.
The garage works, light are flickering and it gets into a long error loop when selecting test drive. This also happened when spawning a new car. See log file for the error.

Dualsense input works, not yet tested with my Dualshock 3 or Logitech G29.

System:
Manjaro
Kernel 5.18.0-1-rt11-MANJARO
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
iGPU with mesa 22.1.1-2
12 GB of ram, 12 GB of swap partition
Running on normal preset, dynamic reflection, anti aliasing, and depth of field disabled, and in windowed mode.

 

Thanks a lot for the effort!

I also get the black screen issue, which gets resolved when I resize the window. A few things to note additionally:

• When this happens, on my KDE Plasma Wayland setup, BeamNG and Xwayland CPU usage is rather high (~60% each). Running the game under gdb and breaking once in a while when the freeze occurs almost consistently leads to random Xorg stuff at the top of the stack. There is always lua_pcall in the call stack when I break but there's nothing else interesting I can find. My guess is that the game loops on some windowing code and some graphics stuff initialization happens to get done after triggering a resize event for whatever reason.
• The same issue occurs with gamescope on my system. There are a few additional logs coming from gamescope itself that may be of use, but those may be irrelevant:
  
  Code:

  wlserver: [types/wlr_surface.c:741] New wlr_surface 0x55abd4c49f80 (res 0x55abd4c6be70) 
  xwm: error 2: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) request 138 minor 31 serial 1020 
  xwm: error 2: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) request 138 minor 31 serial 1023 
  xwm: error 141: 141 request 138 minor 32 serial 1037 
  xwm: error 141: 141 request 138 minor 32 serial 1040

I don't have a new issue to report (yet) but I can reproduce the black stripe issue (which also happens on the Automation map in my testing, and a few others) and the lack of audio, but that seems to be expected.

I use arch (btw) on Wayland (KWin), on a ryzen 9 3900X + RX 580 system. Mesa is up to date (22.1.1).
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I moved the game directory in a case insensitive ZFS dataset, but I still get the ingame warning.
Is this because some other directory (e.g. my home directory) lives on a case sensitive filesystem, or is it because the fs case sensitivity check is too rudimentary? Is the performance penalty still a worry in such a case?
EDIT: As it turns out, I didn't pay enough attention to the performance diagnostics menu. The game checks for case sensitivity separately for the game directory and the user directory.
That being said, it might be good to document how important this is for the user directory vs the game directory as AFAIK it is not unusual for linux users to install games on a NTFS partition for instance (for dual-boot purposes).

 

The issue you’ve noticed:
Missing VK resource spammed during gameplay. Otherwise it seems to run fine.

This happens when:
Whenever in game

My specs are:
Ryzen 3700U
Built in Vega
Arch Linux
5.18.3
Mesa RADV Vulkan 22.1.1

EDIT: This appears to only happen on the lowest preset.

EDIT2: Narrowed it down to Lighting setting being on lowest causing the missing VK resource.

 

The map loading is extremely long, maybe x20 compared to windows/directx version.

also, devs, you're gonna hit more issues related to peoples setups, because they are running outside steam's runtime.

game writes its data to `$HOME/.local/share/BeamNG.drive`, i hope it actually uses `XDG_DATA_HOME`.

 

Does this happen even if you try to play a map you have tried on linux again? This may be normal, as I believe there is some per-map preprocessing going on. I observed long map loading and maxxed out CPU usage only on the first launch on a map.

 

indeed, repeated loading was much faster.

 

Thanks for resolving the audio Issue in the next hotfix!
Apart from that, most things work fine, except the "bug" with having to move the window to get it to load (when going into FullScreen, the same is needed)

btw have you done something to make the UI faster? I mean it could still be faster like the Web UI, but damn it's a lot better than on 0.24 I feel like