DCS World Steam Edition (223750)

[h54]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Does not launch
• Steam AppID of the game: 223750

System Information

• GPU: GTX 1070
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 396.54
• Kernel version: 4.15.0-36
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 3.7-7

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-223750.log

Symptoms

While using the most current, stable (non-beta) client (Proton 3.7-7), the game does not launch. The attached report shows errors.

Reproduction

Install DCS World Steam Edition, launch the game and acknowledge play via Steamplay.

[MrMinimal]

Same here.
System information: gist

[mlassnig]

I got it to start (Proton 4.2-2, Nvidia 418.56) and authenticate by installing corefonts and vcrun2015 via protontricks. It came up in windowed mode, then I set it to fullscreen and all graphics options to the highest I could. So far so good, then I started a mission with A10-C. It loaded ok, but once it reached 100% it didn't continue. I had to SIGKILL the whole thing. It didn't start again after that so I removed the Config directory from the compatdata prefix. More humble in iteration two, I left everything as is (windowed, no graphics change), now the mission loaded fine, but then the whole process crashed when it tried to switch to in-flight.

[h54]

@mlassnig I followed your instructions and got it running with proton 4.2-4. Everything is purple/pink (see attached screenshot) and I'm currently messing with the settings to see if I can fix it.

My System:

• Ubuntu 19.04, kernel 5.0.0-15
• GTX-1070, driver 418.56

What I did to get it running:

• installed corefonts and vcrun2015 using winetricks. I used these instructions: https://github.com/redmcg/wine/wiki. DCS-World steam ID is 223750
• ensured I have the latest release of proton enabled in Steam 4.2-4

[h54]

I got rid of the pink hue by turning off MSSA but no combination of settings seems to allow this to render correctly. I upgraded to nvidia-drivers-430 with the same results. See screenshots:

[berniyh]

Tried it with proton 4.2-7 mesa/radv and DXVK. Had to manually install corefonts using protontricks.

That did work, even in fullscreen and with MSAA activated. Also the activation and usage of DLC does work.
Performance was ok (35-40 fps on high profile with my RX Vega 64), but a bit worse than on Windows.

Also tried it with WINED3D, but there I get the same visual glitches as @h54.

[h54]

Using protontricks
protontricks 223750 vcrun2017 corefonts xact d3dcompiler_43
seemed to fix nearly all the issues I was having. Everything renders beautifully at 60fps with very high settings.

The only things I'm unsure about:

• is the mouse supposed to control the camera inside/outside the aircraft? If so, it doesn't work.
• Pressing for the map freezes the game. I have to use ALT+F4 and restart Steam but the game restarts just fine.

[berniyh]

* is the mouse supposed to control the camera inside/outside the aircraft?  If so, it doesn't work.

Inside the aircraft, no.
The aircraft usually have a clickable cockpit, so moving the mouse moves a cursor you can use to flip switches etc.
Not sure about outside of the cockpit from the top of my head.

[h54]

It runs really nicely!

[Preisschild]

@h54 did you get TrackIR and HOTAS working?

[h54]

@Preisschild not as of yet. LinuxTrack recognizes the device and is able to create a working profile for X-Plane but I'm not sure where to go for DCS.

[MrMinimal]

@h54 What is your joystick setup? Do you have one, if so how well does it work?

[h54]

@MrMinimal currently using a Gladiator Mk II and it worked out of the box with no issues. I just had to map buttons to where I wanted them.
https://store.x-plane.org/Gladiator-MK-II_p_595.html