DCS and Linux Mint 22.2

[malley]

Hi all,

Hopefully someone can help. I’m trying to get DCS running on Linux Mint 22.2, but haven’t had much luck so far.

My setup:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D

• GPU: RTX 3080 (12 GB)

• RAM: 32 GB

• NVIDIA Driver: 580.95.05

• Storage: Plenty of free space

I have DCS installed via Steam, and I’ve tried various versions of Proton and GE-Proton, but I keep getting the same result — a crash with a DX11Renderer error in Task Manager. The log shows this error:

/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:902:20: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Non-direct structured resource store.

Could this be an issue with the RTX 3080, or is there another way to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

PS I've attached the log file.

 

dcs.log

[LucShep]

Unsure it'll help but, this may be worth a look:

 

[malley]

Thanks, having a look.

[SimHog]

I would recommend Bazzite as it's more of a "guarded" OS, and the devs focus on gaming, making the OS more gamer friendly over other distros. The best part of Bazzite is Steam is integrated very well and has Wine and Lutris ready to go out of the box.

 

I am however running CachyOS because Bazzite was too well locked down at the kernel level, and I needed some VM and development tools installed which wouldn't install on Bazzite. But for just gaming and general tools like word processing, art, streaming etc it's great imo.

Just note, on both Bazzite and CachyOS, I found if I had lot of my modules installed, the main menu will stutter after loading. It would stutter for a couple of minutes and I haven't found explanation as to why, but it settles and DCS then runs flawlessly.

Edit: Having thought about it, I might actually go back to Bazzite as it is a REALLY user friendly OS 

Edited yesterday at 10:17 AM by SimHog

[LucShep]

1 hour ago, SimHog said:

Edit: Having thought about it, I might actually go back to Bazzite as it is a REALLY user friendly OS 

Bazzite protects you from yourself  but it also locks you in when you want to act like a "power user".

I'd say to take Nobara (KDE or Gnome, as you prefer) for a spin. It's as close as “Bazzite without restrictions” as it gets right now.

It's mutable Fedora base (meaning you can install everything with dnf). It comes with the same game packages and optimizations (Proton GE, DXVK, OBS, MangoHUD, codecs, etc). No crashes - you can tinker with the system, customize everything, compile, etc. More traditional, but equivalent in performance. In practice, “Nobara is what Bazzite would be if it were mutable.” It only lacks automatic rollback and atomic update (which you rarely need).
 

Edited yesterday at 10:35 AM by LucShep

[SimHog]

1 hour ago, LucShep said:

Bazzite protects you from yourself  but it also locks you in when you want to act like a "power user".

I'd say to take Nobara (KDE or Gnome, as you prefer) for a spin. It's as close as “Bazzite without restrictions” as it gets right now.

It's mutable Fedora base (meaning you can install everything with dnf). It comes with the same game packages and optimizations (Proton GE, DXVK, OBS, MangoHUD, codecs, etc). No crashes - you can tinker with the system, customize everything, compile, etc. More traditional, but equivalent in performance. In practice, “Nobara is what Bazzite would be if it were mutable.” It only lacks automatic rollback and atomic update (which you rarely need).
 

Hmmm ... looks interesting. It's amazing the number of Linux distro's that are out there, we're really spoilt for choice.

[malley]

2 hours ago, SimHog said:

I would recommend Bazzite as it's more of a "guarded" OS, and the devs focus on gaming, making the OS more gamer friendly over other distros. The best part of Bazzite is Steam is integrated very well and has Wine and Lutris ready to go out of the box.

 

Well I've been running Mint (XFCE) for a couple of years now and don't have any problems with my games apart this issue with  DCS, seems to be failing with shaders.

[SimHog]

11 hours ago, malley said:

Well I've been running Mint (XFCE) for a couple of years now and don't have any problems with my games apart this issue with  DCS, seems to be failing with shaders.

Is your copy of DCS a native Steam build, or did you install the stand alone version of DCS using steam?

Edited 13 hours ago by SimHog

[malley]

7 minutes ago, SimHog said:

Is your copy of DCS a native Steam build, or did you install the stand alone version of DCS using steam?

It's the Steam edition.

[LucShep]

On 11/2/2025 at 3:15 PM, malley said:

 I keep getting the same result — a crash with a DX11Renderer error in Task Manager. The log shows this error:

/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:902:20: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Non-direct structured resource store.

dcs.log 22.25 kB · 12 downloads

FWIW, you got a couple more errors on that LOG, make sure it's not a mod (or a problematic module) creating the problem:

    Line 205: 
ERROR   EDCORE (528): Drivers errors while mounting coremods/aircraft/f-15e/liveries/f-15ese/usaf 17th ws af90 low vis clean.zip:
    Line 206: 
ERROR   EDCORE (528):     ZipDriver: Failed to open zip archive coremods/aircraft/f-15e/liveries/f-15ese/usaf 17th ws af90 low vis clean.zip.
    Line 223: 
INFO    DX11BACKEND (544): DX11Renderer initialization (w:2560 h:1440 fullscrn:0 vsync:0 adapter:0 monitor:0 shaderErrors:1)
    Line 239 to 258:
ERROR   DX11BACKEND (544): Shader "/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx" failed to compile. Reason:
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:65:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_DECAY.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:66:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_DECAY_SECOND.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:67:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_FLAGS.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:68:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_SHADOW_PARTICLES_COUNT.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:69:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_WORLD_OFFSET.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:77:31: W4300: Redefinition of ComputeLighting.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:78:39: W4300: Redefinition of ComputeLightingInternal.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:79:36: W4300: Redefinition of GetParticleLightInfo.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:80:42: W4300: Redefinition of GetShadowParticleLightInfo.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:75:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_DECAY.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:76:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_DECAY_SECOND.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:77:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_FLAGS.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:78:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_WORLD_OFFSET.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:79:1: W4300: Redefinition of LIGHTING_PARTICLE_SHADOW_GET_FUNC.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:77:31: W4300: Redefinition of ComputeLighting.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:78:39: W4300: Redefinition of ComputeLightingInternal.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:79:36: W4300: Redefinition of GetParticleLightInfo.
ParticleSystem2/common/clusterLighting.hlsl:80:42: W4300: Redefinition of GetShadowParticleLightInfo.
/shaders/ParticleSystem2/groundPuffComp.fx:902:20: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Non-direct structured resource store.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by LucShep

[SimHog]

I wonder if this a Proton runner issue. Recent updates may have broken something maybe. Have you tried running DCS through Lutris?

Edit ... I hate it when I'm right ... just received some kernel updates, now I'm getting the same issue

I have stand-alone DCS and running it through Lutris.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by SimHog

[malley]

11 hours ago, LucShep said:

FWIW, you got a couple more errors on that LOG, make sure it's not a mod (or a problematic module) creating the problem:

 Yeah I see all those issues, DCS is a clean install and I've tried pretty everything I can think of, so I've given up with it now, DCS just doesn't work on Mint.

Thank anyway.
 

 

6 hours ago, SimHog said:

I wonder if this a Proton runner issue. Recent updates may have broken something maybe. Have you tried running DCS through Lutris?

Edit ... I hate it when I'm right ... just received some kernel updates, now I'm getting the same issue

I have stand-alone DCS and running it through Lutris.

 

Oh dear, that's not good, I've given up trying to get it to work now, just doesn't work on Linux Mint.

 

Thanks anyway.