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The black flicker with AMD does not occur when using the non-free AMDGPU Pro drivers

 

using gamescope with the game leads to a black screen, but moving my mouse around activates the ui noises
this doesn't happen with the windows executable, both dx11 and vulkan work

 

About the black flicker, me on AMD, I noticed, it doesn't seem to be an issue (or at least ALOT better) when I force enable freesync, however when the window loses or gets focus, you can see a few black frames. it definetely has something to do with frametime and presenting/clearing

 

Yeah this seems to be the case with some others too. Unfortunately the last time I tried I was not able to get the proprietary drivers running on my system to test that theory but I think we have at least 3 people confirming this now. It's very interesting, there's something different in the vulkan implementation of the proprietary AMD drivers that is triggering this issue in BeamNG's vulkan renderer but also...

X11 + RADV --> no flickering (perfectly fine)
Wayland + RADV (From the open-source driver from the MESA project) --> causes flickering
Steam Proton (windows version, with vulkan renderer of course) + Wayland + RADV --> causes flickering
Wayland + AMDVLK Proprietary (From AMDs proprietary driver) --> no flickering (as reported by players)

The vulkan renderer itself is still very experimental so I expect bugs as such to exist. I think the only thing we can do is wait for the vulkan renderer to improve in later updates and hope we get closer to a solution. Thank you BeamNG devs for the hard work.

 

Important update regarding support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Ubuntu 20.04 - does that imply that we are getting a dedicated Linux depot with 0.36?
Linux was not really "officially" supported (or advertised rather) until now, right? At least that is what I understood from the communication until now regarding a separate Linux depot

 

Umm, my understanding was that with 0.36 only Ubuntu 20.04 will be dropped but not the later versions (e.g: 22.04, 24.04) as they further clarify that newer versions of Ubuntu will continue to be supported in a section further below:



This reply is assuming with "depot" you meant "de-port".

 

No, I was talking about a steam depot:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/depots

On Steam, BeamNG is only available for windows, which also ships binaries for Linux - even to windows users.
Since Linux support was now mentioned in an official capacity, I wondered whether we will get an official Linux release.

 

I wonder when I can delete all files that I don't need since I've never played the windows version and probably never will, even with the small issues I do have sometimes,
it's really really playable.

 

I think the author was thinking about BeamMG.tech and got the two mixed up

https://documentation.beamng.com/beamng_tech/requirements/

 

I made a whole mod in a fresh install of pop os (yes, not the supported distro) in native beamng. Everything worked fine with many different files in many different ge, vehicle and common lua files . Though I did have to restart the game every time I added or moved a file.

Today though I am struggling with the game first not finding a new mod. I eventually changed the name, and it "worked". Now however it's finding the part in the parts selector screen, but nothing actually changes. I even put really big errors in the code, and I see none in the console.

notes on db.json-
For the first issue I noted that the db.json file wasn't updating. There was no entry at all, deleting it changed nothing. Changing the name of my mod did though.

For the second issue I am seeing that there's no "[COLOR=var(--darkreader-text-000000, #dcdbd8)]modData" at all. Though I think this in relation to mods that are subscribed to.[/COLOR]

 

i have get this error on load:



full logs here:

https://pastebin.com/2S4wapyb

this was the command i used to run it:

SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 steam-run ./BinLinux/BeamNG.drive.x64 -gfx vk

im on nixos so i have to use steam-run to get it to launch

 

Is there a baseline set of settings to get this running on Steamdeck under gamescope? I cannot for the life of me (and the last 20 or so pages here) get working. It runs fine in desktop mode when using

Code:

SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 %command%

where the command is the linux executable - but no such luck in game mode.

Also, I did set the folder to be case insensitive but loading of some maps is still so slow that it seems as if it's frozen - but I am unsure if that's to be expected still.

Any tips?

 

As far as I know loading is slow for the first time you load a map, since the texture buffer has to build. After that the loading times should normalize.

 

Thanks, that aligns with what I've seen. I guess the only remaining part is getting it going in game mode.

 

is there a fix for what i posted above?
--- Post updated ---
https://pastebin.com/kwC9Ywz8

more logs i ran it again, i dont think its different but it could be since i updated my system

 

Hi! I’m using a steam deck, and I’m able to launch career mode fine with basically any settings. But when I quit, and try to load back in to career my deck freezes up and crashes. Is there a fix to this?

 

Will we be able to launch the native version through steam directly now? I thought it was added but i don't see it

 

Great work, I like the addition of the protocol handler I saw something mentioned regarding D-Pad on steering wheels? I wasn't able to check that out, yet. Does that mean the D-Pad now works for Steering Wheels on Linux?