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It seems the crash isn't an issue with BeamNG.drive and more so an issue with the sdl2-compat layer that distributions are upgrading to. A valid workaround is to load the sdl binary from the steam linux runtime. The environment variable to prepend before the game is `SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/home/USERNAME/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0`. I get no crashes after applying this to the game.

 

setting SDL_DYNAMIC_API= Actually fixes Crashing for me too, however I generally still can'T launch the game within Steam since 0.35

 

doing this and running in windowed mode stopped the crashing for me

 

Windowed mode seems to fix crashing. SDL_DYNAMIC_API has no effect on my system. Both Fullscreen and Borderless will crash the game.

 

I think I did a mistake somewhere, does the game immediately crash if you load a map in windowed, then switch to borderless or fullscreen?

 

After a quick gameplay of just a minute, it does not crash at that point. But when I open a menu by pressing ESC and start selecting Map or Vehicles and just go back and forth, it will crash the game at that point.

 

ok so I'm not sure how exactly but I indeed had to find out SDL_DYNAMIC_API doesn't actually fix it for me either, not sure why but maybe the first launch it did somehow?
and aside from that my game acts the same as yours, crash related to UI actions in Fullscreen and Borderless.
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Also Noticed very weird motion blur behavious sometimes? I can't reproduce it anymore, but the car was blurred, even though it's relative position to the camera wasn't changing, also independent of "blue own car" setting

 

This release is finally working for me in Wayland, performance seems good too.

2 issues to report.

On East Coast the LOD pop in for the trees in the forest seems weird. There is a lot of flickering and colour shift as they get closer.



SMAA does not seem to be working.

 

is it a linux problem a career problem or a me problem that it doesnt seem to save consistently the career?

 

I was able to fix the screen flickering issue on Wayland by changing the Vulkan implementation from RADV to AMDVLK.
This switch also fixed some unexplained crashes I got after updating to 0.36 (running Mesa 25.1.4-1), so I will stay with this implementation for now.
(EndeavourOS / 6.15.3-arch1-1 / RX 9070 XT)

 

Damn thank u so much!

 

Yeah, AMDVLK seems to work on my system, too.
On Mesa, the windowed mode trick only worked on my Radeon 6800XT, but on 9070XT it still crashes.

I'm on Fedora 42, KDE Plasma 6.4 (Wayland). Kernel 6.14.11, Mesa 25.0.7

 

Guys help, my gpu power isnt maxed out in beamng but utilization is 98%, gpu is RX 7700XT and power draw is 130W in 1080p ultra with graphics mods, performance **seems** fine getting 100fps but i havent tried other games yet
Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (CPU), AMD Radeon RX 7700XT (GPU), Arch Linux, Zen kernel 6.15.3 (0S)

 

It seems that the crashing issue has been fixed with the radv drivers, for me at least

 

0.36.3.0 starts again for me.
Thank you very much!

 

Now I can play Linux version smoothly! Huge thanks!

 

I'm trying to run the game in the native Wayland environment.
KDE 6.3, Linux kernel 6.6
Mesa 25.1.1
Radeon RX6600M graphics card.
RAM 32GB

I run it through the console using the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./BeamNG.drive.x64
A full-screen window is launched in windowed mode, inside it is white. Then, after about half a minute, the window and the emergency console end with a warning from the kernel that there is not enough RAM. Although I have 32 gigabytes of it! I opened the system monitor at the same time as startup and indeed, at startup, all memory is loaded at once. When running through Xwayland, everything works fine.

 

I don't think the game has a Wayland version, yet.

 

BeamNG does not support Wayland natively yet, you need to use Xwayland.