Yeah i get 250fps in it on Windows and 90-120 on Linux. When the game launched smoke grenades didn’t even work so i think its safe to say it was untested. Hopefully improvements soon.
After changes Ive made mentioned elsewhere, im getting a stable 200+ now, maybe give them a go also? Although, I do have a weird glitch where things have a green sheen to them when running for some reason, but seems like a CS2 only issue at this stage, might be patched out later.
Welcome to the better side! Lots of good stuff in here. Pick what you want and go from there. I transitioned to mint and put windows in a VM (virtualbox) as my “crutch”. The on thing I haven’t see is use an app called timeshift. It’s a auto backup tool. It’s saved me a few times when I tried something that in hind sight wasn’t a good idea. It let me roll the machine back to a pre-screw up state.
The other good part of this is that it let me try more things because I had a safety net.
I just had to re-extract the easy anti cheat files using this guide.
I have to do it on everyupdate. I’m pretty sure I left Temp with write permissions because otherwise it’d sometimes get stuck on VC Redistribution installation.
I believe I’m running in the latest Proton version
Try that, that guide also references other packages/software that might be helpful.
You only get that EAC error once you join a server, so hopefully that’s the issue. Let me know if it helps or if you have trouble with the guide steps, hopefully I’ll be able to help
The Linux version of the game has barely been tested. The frame times are all over the place. Give it a few weeks and the performance should increase through updates, the issue isn’t on your end
I haven’t gotten around to trying the stable release out, but there’s one ProtonDB report - presumably for 6.0 given the post date - so far that says it works flawlessly.
I’m guessing the situation is the same as pre-6.0, though. I participated in some of the playtests, where I got the same performance issues that I got before with the game slowing to a crawl after some time. The user on ProtonDB also has pretty beefy specs, so I couldn’t say if the performance issues were fixed, either. I’m not sure if you’re asking if it’s playable or has gotten better, so I will say that (at least for pre-6.0) it technically works regardless as long as your computer is beefy enough.
The Proton GitHub issue for Squad might be nice to bookmark to make or check up on every once in a while; usually any issues, fixes, and updates end up there.
I just updated the game and it would hang when joining matches. And eventually crash. so for me it just did not run at all, but I’ll have a go at it again next weekend
We are in a weird state it seems where some stuff requires amdvlk and some stuff requires that amdvlk not be installed… Like the latest gamescope doesn’t work for me when it’s installed unless you explicitly set the AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV env var but raytracinginvulkan requires the amdvlk package since it’s not as mature of a project and makes too many assumptions.
Here are some tips from somebody who made the switch about a year ago. My advice is to take it slow.
I first tried Linux on an old laptop that nobody was using anymore. I messed around with it, did a coding project, tried to see what it was like to get this and that running. It’s good that you tried Linux with a home server first. That means you’re already decently comfortable with it.
I recommend starting with a dual boot setup. Some time later I got a new PC, and I was planning to run Linux on it. It came with Windows 11. I wasn’t comfortable with going full Linux, so I split the 512GB SSD down the middle and gave most of the 2TB hard drive to Linux. This has served me very well. It gave me peace of mind to know that if there was something I really needed that I couldn’t get working on Linux, I could boot into Windows.
After a bit, I defected back to Windows. It ended up being somewhat bad timing. I wanted to play Sonic Frontiers, but it barely worked on Linux. At the time I was also using the game engine Unity, which was what my game design courses were teaching me, and I couldn’t get it working properly on Linux for the life of me. I kept my Linux partition in case I ever wanted to use it for something or even switch back. This is partially why I recommend a dual boot setup. You might be dissatisfied with Linux the first time you try it, and if you end up really wanting to go back to Windows, you’ll be glad that you left yourself an easy way back.
Well, I’m glad I left my Linux partition on there, because I eventually came back and stayed here. I was over Frontiers, and I finally managed to get Unity working, so there I stayed. As I spend more time with Linux, I get more and more comfortable with it. I only ever boot into Windows to play multiplayer games with my friend since I don’t want to waste time troubleshooting a game for an hour during a call if something doesn’t work. Though I suspect that most of what we play would work fine on Linux! I’m starting to feel like I’m getting comfortable enough with Linux that if I wanted to get rid of my dual boot, I could. It helps that Unity destroyed itself so I don’t want to use it anymore anyway. Moral of the story: Don’t feel like you have to fully commit to Linux at first. You can make the transition slowly and do what makes you comfortable, and you’ll get there eventually.
I know this comment is very long, but I want a paragraph to recommend distros. I highly recommend something Debian based for a new user. It’s relatively easy to learn compared to other kinds of distros and more stable. I recommend either Linux Mint or Pop!_OS, both of which are excellent for beginners. They’re both based on Ubuntu, which itself is based on Debian. They’re pretty similar under the hood, so it mostly comes down to which UI you prefer. I believe that Pop!_OS is a little more up-to-date with some packages, but not everyone likes its UI, and its app store is somewhat miserable. I use Pop and I adore it, but it’s not everybody’s cup of tea. If you want to try a few distros before you commit, I recommend trying them on some old device you don’t use anymore, or a virtual machine.
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