TheZoq2

I use arch myself, but there isn't really anything preventing it from running on other distros. The one thing might be a requirement is up-to-date video drivers etc.

I hope this is the right section for this. For a little over a year, I have been playing DCS on linux via wine, and a bunch of people have told me to make a thread about it on the forums. If you're interested in also jumping off the windows train, there is a (mostly) up to date guide on getting it working at https://github.com/thezoq2/dcs_on_linux and a bunch of discussion about it at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1722 The game runs pretty flawlessly, though there are some issues: the biggest one being broken smoke rendering https://github.com/TheZoq2/dcs_on_linux/issues/4, and a few other minor things. Performance is pretty good in my experience though I can't compare to windows because I haven't tried it on this PC. Of course, there are no guarantees that this will keep working in the future, but it's nice while it lasts. Usually patch day requires some investigation, but so far we've been able to keep it working. Finally: ED, in my experience, there are several people who are interested in this and while I know you probably don't have the resources to do anything official, I, and I'm sure a lot of other people would be very happy if this keeps working. If we can do anything to help with that, let me know, I'd be very happy to help

Experiencing the same problems. Unfortunately, the fix of enabling IPv6 does not work (probably because of linux/wine). Is there any chance of a hotfix that fixes this issue soon?

First of all, I know linux is not officially supported in any way, so do as little or as much as you want with this information :) As of the latest patch (2.5.6.45317) trying to start the game through proton/wine on linux causes a crash after login before the game starts. The relevant portion of the log mentions the following: 020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO UIBASERENDERER: Cannot load font [C:\windows\Fonts\Arial.ttf]! 2020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO EDCORE: try to write dump information 2020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO EDCORE: # -------------- 20200320-175634 -------------- 2020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO EDCORE: DCS/2.5.6.45317 (x86_64; Windows NT 5.2.3790) 2020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO EDCORE: Z:\home\frans\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\bin\DCS.exe 2020-03-20 17:56:33.183 INFO EDCORE: # C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 407C9C1F 00:00000000 2020-03-20 17:56:34.053 INFO EDCORE: SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;Z:\home\frans\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld;Z:\home\frans\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\bin;C:\windows;C:\windows\system32;SRV*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'steamuser' 2020-03-20 17:56:34.053 INFO EDCORE: OS-Version: 5.2.3790 (Service Pack 2) 0x0-0x1 2020-03-20 17:56:36.100 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007C9C1F (dcs): (function-name not available) + 0x0 2020-03-20 17:56:36.100 INFO EDCORE: 0x00000000007BCD4D (dcs): (function-name not available) + 0x0 2020-03-20 17:56:37.132 INFO EDCORE: Minidump created. Editing the CoreMods/services/VoiceChat/entry.lua file to prevent loading the module, along with some other modifications works around the problem and makes the game start fine. Further investigating the issue, I modified `bin/webrtc_plugin.dll` to return directly from the `CreatePlugin` which also made the game start fine. This makes me fairly certain that (at least one of the issues) is in that specific function. It is possible that this issue actually appeared in the last two versions as well, but there logins were broken. I know for sure that the game worked in both 2.5.5 and the first 2.5.6 version at the very least. It happens on both standalone and the steam version, using proton 5.0 and lutris wine 5.2 If you're interested, you can see a more detailed list of steps we took in the proton github page https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1722 which also shows that there are a few of us with an interest in the game running on linux. If you want more info about this, i'll gladly provide it, and I hope you don't mind me poking around in the game internals :)