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sly rover
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Like we said, you can't use crossover.

covert quiver
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You need to "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatiblity tool" in the game options in steam

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and select Proton Experimental

sly rover
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Yeah, you can use any Wine with dxvk to play the game, for the most part. If you want to try the new BattlEye support, you need Steam for Linux (in the beta), Proton Experimental running the game, and the BattlEye runtime installed.

plain elbow
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switching my Steam options around, idk how many times i'm going to redownload 62GB update, lol

sly rover
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It shouldn't need to redownload if you were already downloading the Windows version.

plain elbow
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i'm just doing all of this because my Windows version crashes on me due to the windows audio issue

sly rover
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Could you elaborate on that?

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Do you mean that running the Windows client on Linux causes crashing?

covert quiver
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@plain elbow I recommend joining the ArmaOnUnix Discord, invite is in #channel_invites_list. I can send you screenshots there.

plain elbow
wise canyon
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CrossOver includes a modified MoltenVK with similar support to DXVK for macOS

plain elbow
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still crashing

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going to try installing Battleye with Wine then Running the arma3_64.exe in wine

scenic sleet
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you don't need to install battleeye, use crossover or anything else

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just install the game in steam, go to the settings for that game, under compatability select proton experimental, add -noLauncher to the start options and click play. Done.

plain elbow
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which Linux Distro are you guys using?

scenic sleet
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I'm using fedora

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crash sounds like it's running the launcher, which -noLauncher should prevent

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It's not helpful, I know, but I've not heard of anyone having issues running the game under proton for months.

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It's at the stage where, aside from the launcher, everything just works when launching direct from Steam

plain elbow
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i see some updates queued now for the Proton Builds

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updating then reloading Steam

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Native Steam

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still crashing, maybe my AMD drivers are having an issue. I updated in terminal and saw the Mesa updates

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i give up, going back to shitty Windows, lol

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thank you Satomi! going to reboot now

plain elbow
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cool

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checking now

scenic sleet
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32bit? you wouldn't want the 32bit drivers for Arma, it's 64bit native?

plain elbow
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Gears are running, thank you

scenic sleet
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for the client ... yes

plain elbow
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ok

scenic sleet
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the game is still run using the 64bit version of proton

plain elbow
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oh wow

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ok

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maybe i'll run the client exe from terminal, the -nolauncher and %command% -nolauncher are not working

sly rover
plain elbow
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right from launching

sly rover
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Could always get some proton logs and see if there is anything interesting there.

plain elbow
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ok, looking for those

sly rover
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You'll need to do PROTON_LOG=1 %command% -noLauncher to generate them.

plain elbow
scenic sleet
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So with BE support incoming, I figured I'd dust off my Arma skills however I'm having issues with the latest version of Proton. It's no longer capturing the mouse properly, so the moment the mouse moves 1 pixel onto my other screens the Arma window minimises. Anyone else have this issue and know of a workaround?

sly rover
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As a workaround.

warm dune
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I just checked "automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows" in the prefix's winecfg

scenic sleet
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huh, interesting, I used to have Arma running in a borderless window for this reason. Turns out the issue is that it reverted to running fullscreen at some point. Strange ...

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Thanks for the pointer, I didn't even think to check that

regal sorrel
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Hey everyone, is there an up to date guide on running the latest arma version with some mods?

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I just now found out you have to force the proton version in order to get the latest arma version to install

regal sorrel
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That was it. Forcing the proton version worked. I got the unix launcher working as well and with some fiddling ACRE is up with the Windows version Teamspeak

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So, it's all up and running! Super happy with it

acoustic depot
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whats the difference between that and teamspeak installed using a package manager?

floral venture
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generally rather use the package manager then download it from the web somewhere

acoustic depot
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how does one read FROZEN0.mdmp files?

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trying to debug why my game is now freezing when it reaches main menu

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probably didn't pick the best channel for this interesting

gritty sage
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You can't

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you can report them on feedback tracker, but I assume its the same problem as I already saw

acoustic depot
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it's reported on the feedback tracker?

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if so, how long ago, because this started quite recently

gritty sage
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I got a freeze on proton issue yesterday, I don't know if yours is the same but I assume its probably is

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you can make a ticket anyway I'll look next week

acoustic depot
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I'll check out the bug tracker tomorrow

sage tendon
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any arma3unixlauncher users here? I can't figure out how to import official launcher mod preset HTML files, it just crashes a3unixlauncher

acoustic depot
gritty sage
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Huh.
The freeze issue was in new multithreading stuff, but I'm pretty sure that was on stable too

gritty sage
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We left it temporarily enabled till a decision can be made.
That should be this week, we'll see

quasi orchid
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sometimes things you want don't exist in package manager. Then its either "add new repo and can I trust it?" or "run binary installer"

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FPS in full MP server same shitshow too?

quasi orchid
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100 player MP server full is shitshow performance-wise. Like 40-50fps most on good machine and dipping below 10 on shit ones.

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on win. curious whether it's better or worse on linux

spring kite
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Arma 3 is on sale on steam, bought to my friend to play it with him online salute

scenic sleet
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that's automatically installed when using proton experimental?

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huh, apparently not

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After an update yesterday(?) Arma is now completely locking up for me in game, after just a minute or two. Or while loading etc

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process has to be forced killed

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it was fine just a couple of days ago. Now it's consistently dead-locking somewhere

gritty sage
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try profiling branch, and if you get freeze dumps then send them to me

scenic sleet
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will do

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@gritty sage Where are those dumps written?

gritty sage
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RPT folder

scenic sleet
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ok, got it

scenic sleet
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@gritty sage Just confirming the hypothesis, downgrading to Proton 6 and the freeze issue hasn't repeated in 5 minutes of gameplay. So it appears to be a bug in proton experimental.

sly rover
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@scenic sleet was it a freeze/hang? Under what conditions?

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Oh, I see you said "process has to be forced killed," so that answers my first question.

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Also, did you try the profile branch? It may have the workaround included.

scenic sleet
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Happened with both standard and profile branches. Per Dedmen who looked at the dump it's in proton/wine and I confirmed that by downgrading Proton from experimental.

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Freezes within 1 minute of any gameplay. Everything is fine with Proton 6.

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Presents as a deadlock. Though without being able to read the freeze dump from Arma I can't confirm that is the case.

gritty sage
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its not the freeze issue I already found and fixed for next profiling branch, its something inside proton

sly rover
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@scenic sleet Have you tried with esync disabled?

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I would recommend sharing the information you gathered and proton logs on the Proton issue tracker.

scenic sleet
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No, I've not tried with esync disabled. Since it was working fine on Monday but broken by an update on Tuesday I didn't even consider changing any options. Seems to be a clear cut regression.

sly rover
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Well it isn't so clear. I'm playing with Proton experimental and played for hours yesterday (after the update) with no crashing.

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I have esync disabled.

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I disabled it because I had crashing with it on, but I couldn't reproduce it consistently like that.

scenic sleet
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If it's a deadlock, then it could be due to a race. So processor speed could be a factor. As could other variables such as resolution, GPU etc (time taken to load and cache a texture). These issues are rarely clear cut.

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I will try with esync disabled to see if it makes any difference

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Different type of race MBR 😆

acoustic depot
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I know but I couldn't resist 🤣

scenic sleet
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@sly rover So, just proving how tricky these things can be. I tried disabling esync, played for 30 minutes - no issues. Just to be sure, I then removed that env variable and played again - another 30 minutes, no freeze ...

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I think I'll have to play with/without for more time to see what happens. Or maybe this was just one of those problems that magically disappears just because I switch from Proton Experimental and back again

sly rover
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I've found that certain scenarios are more likely to cause the freezing I was seeing. I couldn't trigger it at all in things like I&A or Zeus missions with lots of players.

I could more easily in the Apex campaign, and other, more structured/scripted scenarios/showcases.

scenic sleet
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It was reliably happening very quickly for me with DRO scenarios, so that's what I did every time when re-testing.

sly rover
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But I've had zero since disabling esync and working around the other freezes that were addressed in the profiling branch.

scenic sleet
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although the issue also happened repeatedly when I tried joining official servers (Warlords iirc) to see if the Battleeye support was still working OK.

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we'll see what happens I guess.

civic wadi
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Just got Arma 3 installed for linux (not 1.82) and played with a friend running windows. Being I'm new to the compatibility and not using the main launcher (instead using the arma 3 unix launcher by muttleyxd), is there a convenient way to get DLC enabled like Prairie Fire? Or would I have to enable flags from the steam properties when Arma is launched to get the DLC loaded.

wise canyon
warm dune
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I should really get around to preparing my own launcher in a package-able format once I stop being lazy and polish it up

scenic sleet
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If you want to enable Praire Fire you can do so easily enough though the UI. If you want to enable Western Sahara you'll need to manually add that to the command line - and I'm not sure what the mod name is for that yet

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of course, it's also possible to enable dlcs/mods through the in-game Arma menus

civic wadi
civic wadi
sly rover
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And I submitted a pull request to add it to the launcher.

acoustic depot
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so uh... I see there was an update ~9h ago (from steamdb)

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any chance something in that update could be causing freezes interesting

scenic sleet
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You can of course use the dlcs, including the full conversion dlcs (contact, prairie fire etc) without a launcher. The launcher just gives an alternate way of selecting what you want enabled before you start the game. In-game dlc changes require a restart so selecting from the launcher itself can save a little time.

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I guess this is mostly relevant for those full conversion dlcs which cannot be enabled at the same time.

scenic sleet
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it's WS not ws

sly rover
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Dang it, I went off what others said.

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Thanks for letting me know, though.

scenic sleet
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heh, I raised it and they said that since windows is case insensitive, it doesn't matter 🙄

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the rather typical - "do things the way we think you're supposed to" attitude

warm dune
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I waited for SteamDB to get a file list for this exact reason

sly rover
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Yeah, I thought of waiting for that, but figured "just asking" was easy enough.

quasi orchid
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proton gameplay has been great

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i'm still having some issues i've had in the past, and haven't tried using things like ace3 or tfar yet

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which iirc do dll stuff

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only issue after setting no esync on is this strange issue i have

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after like an hour+ of gameplay

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there's some sort of directional based lag

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ie if i look anywhere west i drop to 12 fps

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otherwise i am full frames

gritty sage
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I know TFAR works, but you need to run Teamspeak inside proton.
ACE dll's don't do anything fancy, they should also work just fine

bright oak
quasi orchid
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ACRE didn't work last I tried it so that's good to know

sly rover
quasi orchid
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had it both happen on altis and tanoa in I&A since playing with the battleye stuff, but i've had it happen countless times in the past @sly rover

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in various modded maps and zeus scenarios, etc.

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i should check if backing in and out fixes it, a full game restart does however

sly rover
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Interesting

devout solar
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Hi all, is the western sahara DLC supposed to work on Linux? Or should I go the proton route?

bright oak
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You should use Proton for Arma 3, including any of its DLC, because the Linux port is outdated

quasi orchid
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Update

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The directional lag issue is not exactly 1 direction

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Had like 18 degrees of looking East before it lagged

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Also, being on thermals stops it from happening

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it is NOT fixed by restarting the mission

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a full game restart is required afaik

scenic sleet
sly rover
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Specifically, anything more recent than Tanks, iirc.

quasi orchid
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this lag issue is pretty nuts

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does anyone else have a similar issue with lag involving which direction you are looking

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if not, it must be due to my ingame settings or my hardware because i've been on several different installs and have had the same issue

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going to try playing on normal fullscreen

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actually i forgot, i have a mouse capture issue in normal fullscreen

acoustic depot
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so uh

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my game froze again

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and I let it sit for 5 mins

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and there's no freeze logs thinkw

gritty sage
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Btw @ HER0 the fix for your freeze is up

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Though I didn't mention it in the changelog apparently notlikemeow

quasi orchid
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i think the issue i'm having is vram related

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i'm playing on ultra w/ a 1070

fathom ice
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Are the CDLC's supposed to be missing in 1.86 on Mac? I've been using the unix launcher, and it says they can't be found

gritty sage
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yes

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The linux/mac port experiment has been stopped.
Linux meanwhile works on Proton, but mac (I think) doesn't

fathom ice
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Huh, alr. I guess that means the reason the CDLC is shown is for Linux people?

gritty sage
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CDLC is shown for linux people?
What do you mean by that?

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It works if you run the game on Linux inside proton, but we shouldn't be advertising that on the steam store page for example

sly rover
fathom ice
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argh, ok

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That makes sense

snow dune
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Okay so, I'm on Macbook Air M1 2020. I just bought and downloaded from steam. i tried launch the game and disappear instantly... How i could fix this issues?

spring kite
gritty sage
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no

sly rover
snow dune
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ah i see, thanks for the info

wise canyon
covert quiver
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Arma & DayZ appear to be supported on Proton now

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Thanks BI ❤️

sly rover
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Wild

gritty sage
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Huh.. Afaik it's still in testing pout_kitty

quasi orchid
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@gritty sage nope apparently it just works

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accidentally enabled battleye for everyone

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fun!

gritty sage
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That was already the case the last couple weeks

quasi orchid
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steam added arma & dayz to a list on battleye compatibility

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i forgot where exactly it was

gritty sage
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Last info I have still is "we'll leave it on for now and evaluate if it works fine and then decide on what to do"

quasi orchid
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everything seems to work fine except for a vram issue that causes weird directional lag

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i assume it's a vram issue, since that's the only thing at max when it occurs

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i've been playing on public servers w/ people and everything seems fine

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i should probably actually spend some time to find out the issue, it may be my hardware because i haven't heard of it w/ other people

worthy grail
obtuse chasm
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I'm trying to run teamspeak (because of TFAR) in the same proton environment as ArmA. I think it did work a year or so ago, but now it's crashing. Any chance someone here would have stumbled across this, or similar issue?

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TS starts, connects, outputs "connected to server" audio, but freezes and crashes. Sometimes outputting information about some Qt Web component. I know this is rather off-topic, but I thought I'd give it a shot before spending another month or two investigating

fathom ice
bright oak
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Now that Battleye is working and there is some work being done to be compatible with Proton, is there any hope for making the Arma 3 game launcher compatible?

acoustic depot
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afaik it has been completed disabled for linux

gritty sage
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Launcher is not planned, the launcher itself works, just the GUI doesn't :D

acoustic depot
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sadge

bright oak
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Unfortunate. Do you know why the gui doesnt work?

gritty sage
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Because it's C# WPF

acoustic depot
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Qt moment Okayge

gritty sage
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I still don't know how it works with accepting BattlEye EULA, as that usually goes via launcher GUI.
If it turns out we need to do something there, I'll do something

wise canyon
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you'll get a prompt ingame

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it works even better than on Windows from past experiences

bright oak
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Interesting, light research suggests wine is able to run c# WPF guis since 4.21

acoustic depot
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apparently wpf can work in proton interesting

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lol

wise canyon
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completed an entire session of large scale TvT during the weekend without any battleye issues

gritty sage
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But the ingame prompt only says to accept, doesn't show you the whole EULA right?

wise canyon
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you'll get a link I think if you want

gritty sage
wise canyon
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open link, yes, no

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or something like that

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the Launcher WPF actually shows on Proton now

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then crashes

bright oak
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arma giveth and arma taketh away

gritty sage
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Oh wow. Didn't know you that.
Hopefully I can fix that then

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We want to do steam deck stuff next year (once we get ours), I'll do everything that's doable then

bright oak
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We can run some tests if you need linux feedback. I would be more than happy to figure out the launcher.

wise canyon
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I have similar small factor zen with APU desktop machine for linux testing 😄

gritty sage
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If you have a launcher crash report with the calltrace, maybe that's sufficient to see what's wrong

wise canyon
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sure, I can grab that for you

acoustic depot
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Afaik the launcher creates a dump on thr desktop

gritty sage
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Once I get my new PC in January I can setup a Linux VM

acoustic depot
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Might've posted it here

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Running games in a Linux vm Weirdge

gritty sage
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No hurry tho, I'm gone till january

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I did Arma development in a windows VM on windows for a year :D

wise canyon
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when can I pester you to fix the dead lock for booting both arma 3 on macOS with M1 and arma 3 server in Linux VM on macOS M1? 😄

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arma 3 (client) gets stuck on "reading command line" dialog prompt with molten vk

gritty sage
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If you run profiling branch you should get freeze dumps

wise canyon
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I think the server freezes due to lack of CPU frequency report in VM

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even during the initial splash screen setup? i.e. before graphics

gritty sage
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I know it happens during stringtable loading, which is also in splash screen

wise canyon
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cool, I'll try to get you that then

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can server produce it as well?

gritty sage
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Yes

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But I don't know what the delay is.
In some phases we set the freeze threshold to 15 minutes....

wise canyon
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I'll test a bit, thanks 🙂

bright oak
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I'm getting the calltrace dump as well

bright oak
gritty sage
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No idea :D
I think it has no debug mode

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Afaik it just prints to log when it crashes

bright oak
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Yeah, I have the exception logs on hand.

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They dump to desktop when they crash.

gritty sage
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Can you send me one? Just the calltrace part

bright oak
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Sent. They're small enough to read entirely. Not sure what part is the calltrace so I gave the whole thing.

gritty sage
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Could not load file or assembly 'SteamLayerWrap, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.

Huh..

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Below that line starts the calltrace.
But that line itself is enough already.
But that's weird.
Maybe it's a upper/lowercase difference problem?

bright oak
gritty sage
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Master Dahlgren will know :D

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Or it's a missing dependency, but that'd be weird?

bright oak
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I could call on other linux nerds to paste their launcher exceptions, if you wish. Maybe the issue is exclusive to me.

gritty sage
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Id prefer if you could look into the log and see if it's the same thing for them

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I'm on my phone, checking logs there is annoying

bright oak
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Sure, will do salute

acoustic depot
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Could be related to the same thing that requires addons on the linux server to have lowercase folder names

bright oak
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Probably not cause arma 3 client runs on proton and the server is native.

gritty sage
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Nah we don't do that here.
This'll be .net's normal DLL loading.

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Oh right, proton is windows anyway owoyay

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Then probably missing dependency, drop steamlayerwrap into dependency walker

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System.InvalidOperationException: A TwoWay or OneWayToSource binding cannot work on the read-only property 'ParametersActiveTab' of type 'Launcher.ViewModels.LauncherViewModel

Dahlgren has different.
That one is also weird, if that were a problem it should also appear on windows

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There are probably too many issues to just diagnose remotely

bright oak
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I have the same error as Dahlgren now. @wise canyon were you on Proton Experimental?

gritty sage
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But hearing that GUI works is awesome, i didn't know that.
I'm pretty sure I can get the launcher working with that

wise canyon
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UI only shows on latest Steam client + Proton Experimental

bright oak
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Yeah, I was on Proton 6.3.3. Switching to Experimental made the UI work better.

wise canyon
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I had to update steam on my linux dev desktop, apparently slightly older than linux game desktop 😄

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servers tab doesn't load for me either

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I'll try and sort out freeze logs on M1 arm64 CPU then with amd64 emulation

bright oak
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Every page failed to retrieve info except dashboard which got my unit emblem correctly.

wise canyon
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it works just fine with Windows arm64 VM with its own amd64 translation

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but not on native arm64 macOS with crossover amd64 translation nor Linux amd64 VM with qemu translation

bright oak
wise canyon
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I think mods crashed on my other desktop

bright oak
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Mods page works for me, but doesnt show any mods.

wise canyon
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but it worked fine on this desktop, no mods though 😅

bright oak
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Did you get an error when clicking on Parameters? I did. It was the same exception as Dedmen mentioned. It causes the GUI to freeze.

wise canyon
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yes, that's the crash log I sent dedmen

acoustic depot
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I'm getting the SteamLayerWrap one

wise canyon
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are you on latest steam client + proton experimental? try to force an update

acoustic depot
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I'm on glorious eggroll interesting

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6.21

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I think proton experimental uses wine 6.3

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thinkw the file is there

wise canyon
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I had same issue on one desktop until I forced steam client updated and latest proton experimental

fathom ice
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Where are the editor files located on mac? Of course there's the missions folder, but where is the stuff that I never properly saved?

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I think it's a seperate folder. I deleted arma about 4 months ago, and the missions were still there when I reinstalled

wise canyon
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if you haven't properly saved it, what would be saved?

fathom ice
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@wise canyon Just the editor file

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Of course there's a difference

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When you create a mission, it gets saved somewhere until you click like publish or whatever. Publish puts it in the folder marked missions or MPmissions, but it goes somewhere before that folder

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Mission is modded I might add, which could change some things

wise canyon
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editor missions goes into user's missions folder, exported missions goes into games missions or mpmissions folder

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AFAIK it's in Documents folder on macOS

fathom ice
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Looked there, can't find shit

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I know they still exist, checked last night

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@wise canyon Folder route is Documents/user/arma3, yeah?

wise canyon
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depends on if you use the default profile or if you created a different one with name

fathom ice
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Most of the ones I want are on default, but there's one on another, but it was just like a little thing I don't need

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Issue is I don't fully remember the mission name. If I did I think I could look it up, but idk

wise canyon
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~/Library/Application Support/com.vpltd.Arma3/GameDocuments/Arma 3/missions

fathom ice
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Awesome.

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Lemme go look there when I get home

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Over lunch I guess

quasi orchid
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any of you guys know how to restrict the mouse to the arma window?

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I tried running --eon_force_display=1 as a startup command but it doesn't help

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also tried winecfg

wise canyon
scenic sleet
quasi orchid
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Yeah I tried that

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Just unplugged my second monitor

wise canyon
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Wait, are you running the Linux port? Switch to proton instead

scenic sleet
quasi orchid
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I think I'm using the latest wine-proton-Ge build

quasi orchid
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i am currently having issues trying to load a very large modset

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getting "Error 4 reading file" output spam in A3 logs

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a bunch of PBOs failing to load including a bunch of vanilla stuff (either leading to an indefinite load, or an error message)

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windows docs suggests it's too many open files

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fsync is currently disabled, file-open limit is set to 220000

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tried proton-ge 6.21, 7.0rc2, and normal proton experimental, all the same

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i am out of ideas plz give some more

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this is only with a very large modset

quasi orchid
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for reference because i posted in the armaonunix server and answered some things

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it is not due to a specific mod or even combination, my theory is that it's because too many PBOs are loading

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if you want a sample of the output, here you go

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18:17:01 Error 4 reading file 'Z:\mnt\ssdstorage\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\orange\addons\weapons_f_orange.pbo.a3.bisign'
18:17:01 Error 4 reading file 'Z:\mnt\ssdstorage\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\argo\addons\armor_f_argo.pbo.a3.bisign'
18:17:01 Error 4 reading file 'Z:\mnt\ssdstorage\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\argo\addons\characters_f_patrol.pbo.a3.bisign'
18:17:01 Error 4 reading file 'Z:\mnt\ssdstorage\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\argo\addons\data_f_argo.pbo.a3.bisign'
18:17:01 Error 4 reading file 'Z:\mnt\ssdstorage\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\argo\addons\data_f_patrol.pbo.a3.bisign'
acoustic depot
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I sometimes get errors when loading mods

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I found out that umounting and mounting a couple of times solves it

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if you keep your game on a partition that is not /

quasi orchid
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needed to increase file descriptor limit

solar pine
solar pine
flint raven
sly rover
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Is -noLauncher even needed anymore? Thought the last patch removed the requirement.

bright oak
sly rover
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Hm. Maybe that fix is only in the profiling branch still?

bright oak
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Im on profiling and it still runs the launcher without the -noLauncher option

sly rover
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Interesting.

flint raven
solar pine
flint raven
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but nvm it

solar pine
flint raven
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%command% is basically pointing the the exe, and as far as I know something like -nolauncher arma3.exe doesn't work on Windows either

%command% is there to differentiate between environmental variables, which come before the executable, and arguments, which come after

solar pine
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ah yeah now I get it
thanks, I will amend

flint raven
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np and ty

solar pine
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done

flint raven
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nice ty

solar pine
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no u

sly rover
gritty sage
gritty sage
sly rover
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Gotcha

fresh zinc
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arma 3 wont launch, keeps saying it has a missing excecutable on both the linux port and with proton 6.19 GE 2, this executable does not come back even after verifying game integrity, using -noLauncher does not fix this issue on proton

wise canyon
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Did you leave in %command%? i.e. %command% -nolauncher

fresh zinc
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no but i assumed it worked regardless since the launcher (or error window associated with the launcher not finding the executable) didnt show up

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i'll try that after i verify the files again on proton 6.3-8 or whatever the version is on rn

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note: validating did not bring back the executable

fresh zinc
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maybe if i move arma 3 to a different install folder

fresh zinc
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whats weirder is that the arma 3 excecutable does exist in the arma 3 folder

fresh zinc
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changing the proton version to 5.13-6 does not fix the executable not being found (i changed back to 6.19 GE 2)

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is what im doing rn spammy (if so i will stop)

fresh zinc
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will try going back to native and see if that somehow fixes things

fresh zinc
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well that fixed things

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and now things have broken again

bright oak
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Is Arma on the same drive as Steam?

fresh zinc
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no

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however it worked perfectly fine in the past while not being on the same drive

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currently it sits (and has been sitting) in my 1tb ntfs drive

bright oak
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Could it be due to the filesystem? Have you tried it on a different filesystem?

fresh zinc
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i have not yet tried puttign it into a different filesystem, no

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i will try that when i am absolutely sure that it will not work when on an ntfs drive (limited on space on my ext4 drive

fresh zinc
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well i moved it to my linux drive and it just worked

modern quest
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Helloooo, sorry if this is not the place to ask but, i have managed to get arma 3 working on proton and all, but i have quite a heavy ping on LAN servers with friends

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(im using hamachi through the terminal)

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Any ideas on why that could be?

sly rover
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Yeah, because you are using hamachi.

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If you are actually on LAN, use that, or if you aren't, connect through the internet the normal way.

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Or else suffer the latency tax.

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@fresh zinc I would generally expect any weird problems could be ntfs before investigating anything else.

flint raven
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@gritty sage i heard you want to default to -cpuCount=1 on Linux soon. Is there a way to set a parameter back to auto detection once thats live?

gritty sage
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What? No i don't want to do that that'd be stupid pout_kitty

flint raven
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huh ok someone claimed that after multiple people having freezes without -cpuCount=1

gritty sage
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True, some multithreading code was bad

flint raven
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ah so you fixed it?

gritty sage
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Yeah

bright oak
flint raven
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nice ty for the info

timber chasm
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Hello, I just recently bought the game and Apex DLC. I'm using Manjaro version of Linux and have been trying to play Arma 3 with proton. I've heard the game supports Linux and proton, I've been following any steam guides, videos or reports on ProtonDB and so far nothing has worked to get the game running.

I have "-nolauncher" in my launch options and "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1". When I click play I get the regular loading addons and other things with the game logo. Then arma3 opens up with a black screen for a few seconds and closes right after.

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I've also tried the guides that have been pinned

sly rover
timber chasm
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nothing happens.

timber chasm
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@sly rover Anything else?

timber chasm
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Aight so far absolutely nothing happens

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I installed unix launcher

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click play the normal "initializing addons" starts

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after it closes nothing happens but it says arma3 is running

sly rover
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It says Arma is running because the launcher registers as the game on Steam.

sly rover
timber chasm
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those are the games proton could run

timber chasm
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@sly rover ^^^^

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game doesn't run with unix launcher either

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idk what to do

sly rover
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Could add PROTON_LOG=1 and share the resulting logs somewhere for us to look at.

timber chasm
sly rover
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It should be steam-107410.log

flint raven
scenic sleet
acoustic depot
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the game wouldn't even start without it afaik

timber chasm
flint raven
acoustic depot
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yeah I assumed it was the path to the executable, pretty stupid that you have to provide it manually when you want cmd args

flint raven
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it's to tell Steam what args come before the executable and what come after

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You can omit it if you only have args that go after

timber chasm
timber chasm
flint raven
# timber chasm Read all the guides and cant fide the logs

Still got problems after a fresh start? You will get logs like HER0 explained above: Add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the steam command line and send us the resulting loggike in your home dir. We cannot really help you until you provided logs this way.

timber chasm
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@flint raven @sly rover I have the logs

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Should I dm them to you or is there another channel for that.

sly rover
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Can you use some pastebin-like site and share them here?

timber chasm
sly rover
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I'm assuming this is the problematic bit:

120623.498:010c:0124:err:vulkan:wine_vk_instance_load_physical_devices Failed to enumerate physical devices, res=-3
120623.498:010c:0124:err:vulkan:__wine_create_vk_instance_with_callback Failed to load physical devices, res=-3
120623.501:010c:0124:trace:seh:raise (22)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'dxvk::DxvkError'
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Definitely an issue with Vulkan/DXVK/drivers/something like that.

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@timber chasm What GPU/drivers are you using?

timber chasm
sly rover
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So GCN 1. Are you using the amdgpu or radeon kernel driver?

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You need to be using amdgpu if you want Vulkan to work.

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You can also check the output of vulkaninfo to see if Vulkan seems to be working otherwise.

gritty sage
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Current status is still that Arma Launcher is unable to open in Proton right?

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so I need to also disable the "please accept battleye eula" popup on proton, because that would currently prevent you from playing until its accepted (because it forces the launcher to open, which crashes on start)

wise canyon
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when I tested about three weeks ago with latest proton the launcher started and about half of the tabs worked

acoustic depot
gritty sage
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oh right I forgot notlikemeowcry

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ahh

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Most likely on 2.08 we'll stay with -noLauncher and the launcher skipping itself.
Unless I can get a Linux VM up till then and fix that

flint raven
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I would take results from a VM with a grain salt tho as it can be an additional point of failure in my experience.

gritty sage
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If proton fails in a VM i expect it to fail everywhere

timber chasm
sly rover
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No, specifically the amdgpu kernel driver.

timber chasm
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ah

sly rover
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You can do sudo lsmod | grep amdgpu

timber chasm
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k

sly rover
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Which will tell you if you are using it.

quasi orchid
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also Proton won't work in VM properly, cause you got no real GPU drivers there, just emulated

gritty sage
gritty sage
quasi orchid
gritty sage
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yes but that doesn't help me with fixing Arma launcher not working on linux

quasi orchid
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it does, cause you don't need arma launcher working on linux when you can use alternative launcher and achiev same thing (manage mods and stuff)

limber needle
# quasi orchid it does, cause you don't need arma launcher working on linux when you can use al...

I think you missed his point a little bit - he's the developer of official Arma launcher, which has more features than my launcher (and less bugs, since I had to do clean-room RE of how it works, so stuff is far away from perfect), so from his and Bohemia's point of view it's much more viable to fix issues it has and then deploy it. Of course they could take my code (as it's MIT licensed) and use it for Linux, but that's a lot more work than fixing existing launcher

quasi orchid
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oh I didn't know that, just joined recently 😉

wise canyon
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I can retest official launcher with latest proton

stoic lake
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linux is based

deft crag
deft crag
# gritty sage Current status is still that Arma Launcher is unable to open in Proton right?

For me, it opens, but after a few seconds opens a window with an error message saying:
Unexpected error occurred:
The method or operation is not implemented.

Details are stored in a text file on your desktop.

If I click ok on the error window, the launcher exits. Otherwise I can still switch between tabs, but it:

  1. Doesn't load mods
  2. Never loads which Units I'm in
  3. Renders the shadow effect of the Launcher window even when it is minimised, which is exactly as annoying as it sounds
  4. Creates another error window if I switch to the Parameters tab, this one saying:
    Unexpected error occurred:
    A TwoWay or OneWayToSource binding cannot
    work on the read-only property
    'ParametersActiveTab' of type
    'Launcher.ViewModels.LauncherViewModel'.

Details are stored in a text file on your desktop.

I can forward you the logs I just got through DMs if you're still working on getting the Launcher to work with Proton, and if possible help further as well. I also have a log from August last year when I first installed Arma 3 on Linux, which could have useful information. I'm on Proton 6.3-8 with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% in the start up parametres, as ESYNC causes exponential input lag in the game itself if it ever slows down below a certain framerate, which I can also elaborate further on if needed. I'm running 64-bit Pop!_OS version 21.04 with KDE Plasma 5.21.4 running through X11, though back in August I was using the default Cosmic (GNOME 3) desktop environment.

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oh wow that came out big

gritty sage
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I now have my new PC where I can run a linux VM on.
I may get to this in 2 weeks

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Maybe I can make it in time for 2.08 update

acoustic depot
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👀

deft crag
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Hopefully

deft crag
gritty sage
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Sooo.
latest Pop! OS, Proton experimental, bleeding-edge beta branch.

Launcher starts in console, prints some exceptions and failed to load dll files but doesn't exit.
But no actual UI shows up

wise canyon
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shouldn't apply for clean install but make sure there are no pending steam client updates, didn't work before I "forced" those in

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I can browse servers now as well

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but anything which tries to interact with workshop, i.e. server details or mods tab crashes

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and parameters tab crashes

gritty sage
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Welll if that isn't progress

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I get a exception when it tries to load the background image.
"No imaging component suitable to complete this operation was found."
Internet says to install dotnet, which is installed. I just added a catch for that exception in code and now it atleast opens notlikemeowcry
I get more bad exceptions related to bitmap loading

But that is way more effort and way less working than what you got

wise canyon
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I should retest with a clean wine, there's some extra stuff in there for TS+ACRE/TFAR think_turtle

gritty sage
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When I run it in wine (not proton) it doesn't have that image loading issue.
And there it prints JpegDecoder to log, where in proton it just fails and dies.
I have nooo idea why proton env cannot decode jpegs notlikemeowcry

I could launch it once in wine, but now it crashes because some UI element tries to set negative size 😄
I also found out that mono has remote debugging support which is exactly what I need.
But then I found out that wine mono does not support setting the debug options.
Then I found out I can just patch wine and add these options.
Then I found out that you basically need a 32bit linux install in order to compile wine

So I guess I'll go and try to figure out what element is setting that negative height so I can get to the actual real crashes that I wanted to debug in the first place

deft crag
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oh jeez

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Good luck man o7

wise canyon
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you should be able to compile 64 bit only wine

gritty sage
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but launcher dll's are 32bit

scenic sleet
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time for a 64bit launcher? 😛

acoustic depot
gritty sage
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Ah yes! Sure I want my window opened at X:0 Y:155119776 W:3335432 H:71216!

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Haha! Persistence wins yet again

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gritty sage
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Mods/Servers tabs work for me, most likely because steam is not connected meowsweats
Now how do I do that without launching it in proton

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I was about to give up but now very nice progress

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wise canyon
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good job 👍

acoustic depot
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Will we be able to test it before it's fully released?

limber needle
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It looks like a3ul might not be needed anymore nootlikethis

scenic sleet
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think the linux launcher still has some features missing from the official launcher, though I can't be sure since I've never seen the official launcher working 🙂

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to balance that, the official launcher also includes a lot that is missing from the linux launcher (news, units, server browser etc)

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though that stuff is also accessible through the game menus ... so ...

acoustic depot
scenic sleet
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The positives to a working official launcher is that it reduces the barriers to entry for anyone who wants to game on Linux (SteamOS) without any hassle. That's a GOOD thing. So nice work @gritty sage , it's much appreciated.

gritty sage
gritty sage
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All the signals from steam back to launcher like when UGC item details are received, are ending up in "MonoFNPtrFakeClass" instead of in the actual signal handler.
Thats the modslist and serverlist crashes notlikemeowcry

acoustic depot
bright oak
gritty sage
wise canyon
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untouched for 15 years 🧓

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and that was a formatting change, originally added 2002

gritty sage
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Haha!
Thats only called if the callback receiver throws an exception and it tries to propagate it back up the chain.
So easy fix, never throw exceptions :harold:

wise canyon
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any particular reason publisher and launcher use different steam workshop interfaces? 😛

gritty sage
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They don't notlikemeow

wise canyon
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launcher has embedded interfaces

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publisher has separate SteamLayerWrap.dll

gritty sage
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Launcher has is seperate too

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Thats the same file for both

wise canyon
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isn't it embedded in build?

gritty sage
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no

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We throw NullReferenceException when trying to increment refcount of a callback argument.
Problem is.. its not a null reference, its a correct pointer, frick
And where that exception is thrown is _InterlockedIncrement, which shouldn't even be able to throw exceptions at all /unflip

wise canyon
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ah, I forgot to look in launcher folder lol 🙈

gritty sage
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Well atleast I know whats going on and where. That should be enough to figure this out 🤞
Almost confident that this is the main issue. Steam backend itself works, its submitting results to the launcher

gritty sage
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Argument pointer being sent out: 0B150748
Argument pointer being received one call later: 07E408B4

scenic sleet
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wouldn't be the first time I've seen pointers being passed by reference into a function

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Still, that alone wouldn't explain why the dereferenced pointer ends up being null

gritty sage
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it passes a Ref structure by value
a struct containing a pointer

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Doesn't explain why this stuff doesn't work on linux but works on windows.
This is just plain C++/CLR -> C# interop.. there should be no reason for this to be messed up

scenic sleet
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and really, no matter whether it's copying that struct or passing by reference, there's no reason for that pointer to suddenly be null just one call later. I could contrive to think of a scenario where a copy of a reference counted object might be culled because it's ref count was not explicitly incremented after it was created, and that would therefore lead to the pointer explicitly being pointed to 0x0. However that assumes a LOT of things about the code that I've never seen.

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I have my own hair loss inducing debugging to do and I'm sure you don't need my random speculations, so I'll leave you in peace 🙂

acoustic depot
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basically just open source the launcher xd

gritty sage
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Has anyone tried A3Tools on linux in proton? For example Publisher?

limber needle
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Publisher crashed few months ago when I tried it, could take a look now

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Proton Experimental right now:

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented.
  at <Module>.___CxxCallUnwindDtor (System.MonoFNPtrFakeClass pDtor, System.Void* pThis) [0x0000a] in <1517b65cf24848d590da110d3e3eb334>:0 
  at <Module>.UtilsCLI.SignalToDelegateAdapter2<Steam::SteamAPI const &,Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs> >.OnSignal (UtilsCLI.SignalToDelegateAdapter2<Steam::SteamAPI const \&\,Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs> >* , Steam.SteamAPI* arg1, Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs>* arg2) [0x00022] in <1517b65cf24848d590da110d3e3eb334>:0 
  at (wrapper native-to-managed) <Module>.UtilsCLI.SignalToDelegateAdapter2<Steam::SteamAPI const &,Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs> >.OnSignal(UtilsCLI.SignalToDelegateAdapter2<Steam::SteamAPI const &,Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs> >* modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst) modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst),Steam.SteamAPI modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst)*
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modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsImplicitlyDereferenced),Ref<Steam::ListChangedArgs> modreq(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsCopyConstructed)*)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) <Module>.Steam.SteamAPI.Simulate(Steam.SteamAPI* modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst) modopt(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst))
  at SteamLayerWrap.SteamAPIWrap.Simulate () [0x00023] in <1517b65cf24848d590da110d3e3eb334>:0 
  at SharedResources.SteamAPIRunner.<Start>b__1 (SteamLayerWrap.ISteamAPIWrap api) [0x00000] in <758ef06b7287493b9823b584e92fb6a8>:0 
  at Utils.LockedWrapper`1[T].Do (System.Action`1[T] action) [0x00011] in <aaa98a89817b42b0bf3017ae7b0329a3>:0 
  at SharedResources.SteamAPIRunner.Start () [0x0001c] in <758ef06b7287493b9823b584e92fb6a8>:0 
  at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context (System.Object state) [0x00014] in <bee01833bcad4475a5c84b3c3d7e0cd6>:0 
  at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state, System.Boolean preserveSyncCtx) [0x00071] in <bee01833bcad4475a5c84b3c3d7e0cd6>:0 
  at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state, System.Boolean preserveSyncCtx) [0x00000] in <bee01833bcad4475a5c84b3c3d7e0cd6>:0 
  at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run (System.Threading.ExecutionContext executionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback callback, System.Object state) [0x0002b] in <bee01833bcad4475a5c84b3c3d7e0cd6>:0 
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1642451672)
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UI appears, then it tries to connect to network (got OpenSnitch asking for permission) and when I accepted it crashed with this message

gritty sage
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Awesome thanks!

gritty sage
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Actually thanks @scenic sleet your point about passed by reference gave me an idea.
Instead of passing Ref<T> I tried passing Ref<T>& (My & key got quite some abuse meowsweats)

Doesn't explain why this went wrong in the first place, and why only on linux but...

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Serverlist is weird. "OFFICIAL" list stays empty.
Internet shows some tho and my units ones too

Probably downloading of official serverlist not working 😓

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bright oak
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Incredible progress!

How come the launcher says your mods are corrupted? Is that meant to happen?

gritty sage
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My wine steam doesn't have Arma installed.
I'm accessing my Arma via a network share, so it thinks its not installed and thus cannot find any of the mods

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For people who actually have it installed tho it should work. I'll share a build of this shortly

bright oak
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On first run, the launcher was frozen.

On second run, it is working. Units works, BattleEye works, Servers only displays Official servers. Mods page is empty, it did not detect my mods folder. I tried to add a Watched Folder but I get an error then the launcher hangs. Parameters page also displays the same error.

acoustic depot
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Game launch error
Game executable not found. Please repair your game using the Steam Client.

interesting

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and now it started thinkw

bright oak
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A TwoWay or OneWayToSource binding cannot work on the read-only property 'ParametersActiveTab' of type 'Launcher.ViewModels.LauncherViewModel'

This is the error shown on parameters.

acoustic depot
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same

gritty sage
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Servers only displays Official servers
opposite than me wf :u

bright oak
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Did you click on Official tab?

gritty sage
gritty sage
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oh I think I forgot two files, and i only have the english ones

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Updated the file at same link.
In Launcher folder there is en-US folder that also needs to be copied over. Thats that ParametersActiveTab thing

acoustic depot
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server list seems to be working correctly? interesting

bright oak
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I am on perf branch, btw

acoustic depot
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it found like ~2k servers in "internet", 106+ on official (count keeps increasing), recent servers work, can't test friends & favorites and no idea about units I never used that

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mods are all red WeirdGa

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parameters don't show that error anymore with updated files

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"the path for the mod folder is not set"

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how do I know if it tried to find the mod and where it searched

gritty sage
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I guess I'll have to install Arma fully notlikemeowcry

bright oak
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Dashboard works
News works
DLC works
Parameters works
Mods page does not show my mods. I tried to add a watched folder and received the following error:

A TwoWay or OneWayToSource binding cannot accept work on the read-only property 'OptionsActiveTab' of type 'Launcher.ViewModels.LauncherViewModel'
Otherwise, I can "Ok" the error and add folders.

Servers browser works. I forgot to press "Refresh" :P

gritty sage
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OptionsActiveTab
oops I missed that one, seems to be same as the other

acoustic depot
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this may be related to my setup, I have my proton prefixes on / but the game and workshop stuff is on other drive (probably also related to the game executable not found msg from above)

bright oak
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My setup is default and it could not even see the mods folder.

gritty sage
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yes when you click on options in top right.. eh... Does.. can you try clicking options in top right?
Does that actually render for you?

acoustic depot
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bruh no previw

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I can't send the picture wtf

gritty sage
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Thanksies. For me i need to wait a bit and move my mouse over it for it to render :u

acoustic depot
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for me it takes like 500-700ms

gritty sage
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yeah same. Its really slow

acoustic depot
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launcher logs 👀

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launcher options gives that biding error

bright oak
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1/4th of the time, the launcher freezes after running. Not sure if you guys experienced this.

gritty sage
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in ~2 minutes I'll update the build with

OptionsActiveTab
fixed. And then rest tomorrow

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If you get exception logs, throw them into my DM's derpWolf

sly rover
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So much progress! I'll probably be trying this out later today.

scenic sleet
gritty sage
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We can create the junction/symlink for the mods. But when trying to check if they exist, it needs to resolve the target of the symlink to the steamapps/workshop/.. folder. And that fails because FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT is missing :harold:

gritty sage
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ok found a workaround for that.. but..
notlikemeow

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SteamExtensionStorage: Junction created: Z:\media\dedmen\4ea0e2af-692c-40d6-8491-063ffc762f68\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@Task Force Arrowhead Radio (BETA!!!) <- Z:\media\dedmen\4ea0e2af-692c-40d6-8491-063ffc762f68\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\107410\894678801
but thats good.. technically.

readlink @ACE\ Compat\ -\ RHS\ USAF
/././///////////////////////////.//.//media/dedmen/4ea0e2af-692c-40d6-8491-063ffc762f68/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx/dosdevices/z:/media/dedmen/4ea0e2af-692c-40d6-8491-063ffc762f68/SteamLibrary/steamapps/workshop/content/107410/773125288
But that not notlikemeowcry
The z:/ is a symlink, and it very much doesn't like resolving a symlink through another symlink

gritty sage
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Can you guys check your Arma RPT's (I think they should say that) and check if the game is always installed in a Z:\ path?

acoustic depot
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for me yes

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Z:\shared\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\arma3_x64.exe

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fairly certain Z:\ is always going to be / essentially

wise canyon
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Yes, its mapped to the Linux fs

gritty sage
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I'm now creating linux native symlinks directly instead. That should do the trick meowsweats

gritty sage
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My god what an absolute chore

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Can you check in the old build from yesterday. If your !Workshop folder actually has working symlinks inside it?

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I now know what you mean by freeze

acoustic depot
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where should the !Workshop folder be? thinkw

bright oak
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!Workshop should be in the Arma 3 game files

acoustic depot
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oh file explorer wasn't showing it

wise canyon
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it shows up fine in a file browser

acoustic depot
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this is hella weird

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so the !Workshop folder has all the mods

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but some are empty thinkw

gritty sage
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are the symlinks working that are in there?

wise canyon
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in fs etc yes

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but they show as 0kb in launcher and are marked as corrupted

gritty sage
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thanks

wise canyon
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should I try with wine file explorer as well?

gritty sage
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yes

wise canyon
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@ace -> /././///////////////////////////.//.//home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx/dosdevices/z:/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/workshop/content/107410/463939057

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nice path 😄

gritty sage
#

For me that path fails to open because z: is a symlink, so it tries to resolve a symlink through a nested symlink and refuses to do that

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So I now replaced it by native linux symlinks. But executing ln manually makes it ALOT slower

wise canyon
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they show up fine in explorer.exe

gritty sage
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Arma launched inside proton, with 3den Enhanced loaded from the workshop with Arma Launcher.
And Steam Rich presence works too!

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bright oak
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Miraculous

gritty sage
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I'll upload a test build for you tomorrow after I cleaned up my terrible messes...
Time for 🛏️

wise canyon
gritty sage
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I found some more bugs after the symlink stuff. I'll try to go back to the old junction/symlink code and see if that works then.

But is the launcher also terribly slow for you in general? Thats not me, that must be the WPF emulation thing there

wise canyon
# 
Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@ace>dir
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
Volume in drive Z has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of Z:\home\user\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@ace

12/20/2021   1:12 PM  <DIR>         .
 1/20/2022  11:09 PM  <DIR>         ..
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       314,368  ace_advanced_ballistics_x64.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       273,408  ace_advanced_ballistics.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       497,152  ace_artillerytables_x64.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       395,776  ace_artillerytables.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       209,920  ace_break_line_x64.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       156,160  ace_break_line.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM       104,960  ace_clipboard_x64.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM        82,432  ace_clipboard.dll
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12/20/2021   1:12 PM       203,776  ace_fcs.dll
12/20/2021   1:12 PM  <DIR>         addons
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wine and cmd

gritty sage
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Thank you 💝

wise canyon
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it takes some time to start the launcher

gritty sage
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also switching menus and clicking on things is very sluggish for me

wise canyon
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$ readlink .steam/steam/steamapps/common/Arma\ 3/\!Workshop/@ace
/././///////////////////////////.//.//home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx/dosdevices/z:/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/workshop/content/107410/463939057
$ readlink -f .steam/steam/steamapps/common/Arma\ 3/\!Workshop/@ace
/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/workshop/content/107410/463939057
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you could do the same on windows

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i.e. junction to a junction to an actual folder

bright oak
wise canyon
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the workshop mod folders show up as regular directories in wine cmd, not as junctions

gritty sage
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Proton update landed over night. Now launcher is crashing at start 🤣

scenic sleet
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You levelled up, game just got harder

gritty sage
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Proton 6.3 works tho.

So I just tried to return the symlinks to how they were in the last build you got. And for me on Pop!OS they don't work at all because of that nested symlink through dosdeviecs/z:
So I'll go back to the slow way.
Basically I'm running cmd /c start /unix ln -snf target source for every symlink creation and cmd launching in wine is very slow. But it works

gritty sage
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There we go. Thats the so far final version.
I haven't found anything yet about the freezes you guys reported. If they are still there then I'll take a look

https://s.arma3.io/A3LinuxLauncher.zip

wise canyon
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checking

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mods show as installed now 👍

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"open folder in windows explorer" does not work correctly

gritty sage
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What does it do incorrectly? I can imagine that it opens in linux file tool instead of wine explorer

wise canyon
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it opens the wine explorer but does not show the mod folder

scenic sleet
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not really essential functionality I suspect. Though if it were required, I'd rather it opened in the linux file browser (whatever is default) and not in the wine explorer (eww)

gritty sage
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The "GET DLC" button already opens the native web browser

scenic sleet
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I actually believe that might be configurable in winecfg

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though few people running games on linux are going to be messing about with configuration changes for that pfx

timber chasm
# sly rover Which will tell you if you are using it.

amdgpu 7802880 0
gpu_sched 45056 1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon
drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon
ttm 86016 3 amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper
drm_kms_helper 303104 2 amdgpu,radeon
drm 589824 18 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,radeon,drm_ttm_helper,ttm

sly rover
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...interesting, you appear to be using both amdgpu and radeon.

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Which means we need another method to check what you are using.

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@timber chasm try this?
lspci -k | grep "VGA compatible controller" -A 3

timber chasm
sly rover
timber chasm
worthy grail
#

Tested latest launcher from Dedmen. It took a while to launch it but it launched in the end. All was looking ok and I closed launcher without launching game. 1 hour later I wanted to try it again but now it crash when click on Mods menu. Tried to switch from Proton Experimental to Proton 6.3 but it didn't help. Mods menu was working on first launch. I even repaired one mod because I was missing dependacy for that mod.

exception inside UnhandledException handler: (null) assembly:Z:\home\AAA\Steam\steamapps\common\Proton 6.3\dist\share\wine\mono\wine-mono-6.4.1\lib\mono\4.5\mscorlib.dll type:NotImplementedException member:(null)

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.NotImplementedException: Managed.TextFormatting.FullTextLine.Collapse
  at Managed.TextFormatting.TextMetrics+FullTextLine.Collapse (System.Windows.Media.TextFormatting.TextCollapsingProperties[] collapsingPropertiesList) [0x00001] in <0046845bad49434ab2eb0dfa36e944ec>:0 
  at MS.Internal.Text.Line.GetCollapsedWidth () [0x00063] in <056d17090c2c4f8f80f60e275cccc223>:0 
  at System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock.MeasureOverride (System.Windows.Size constraint) [0x002fe] in <056d17090c2c4f8f80f60e275cccc223>:0 
  at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore (System.Windows.Size availableSize) [0x002ab] in <056d17090c2c4f8f80f60e275cccc223>:0 
  at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure (System.Windows.Size availableSize) [0x001d1] in <0046845bad49434ab2eb0dfa36e944ec>:0 
  at System.Windows.Controls.DockPanel.MeasureOverride (System.Windows.Size constraint) [0x00093] in <056d17090c2c4f8f80f60e275cccc223>:0 
  at System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore (System.Windows.Size availableSize) [0x002ab] in <056d17090c2c4f8f80f60e275cccc223>:0 
  at System.Windows.UIElement.Measure (System.Windows.Size availableSize) [0x001d1] in <0046845bad49434ab2eb0dfa36e944ec>:0  ```
gritty sage
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MS.Internal.Text.Line.GetCollapsedWidth
oof.. well if Wine doesn't have that implemented.. meowsweats

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Its not even called by my code. Its literally just WPF window setup.. Don't see what I could do about that

scenic sleet
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yeah, that's more one for Proton devs to resolve.

worthy grail
#

Actually i already did it + check integrity of game files, but forgot to save profile, Now its not crashing but launcher is not showing subscribed mods. Also tried to uninstall and install Arma3 overnight but launcher still can't find subscribed mods.

flint raven
acoustic depot
trim ridge
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I have put a few hundred hours in to both development and play in Proton over the last several months. Suddenly, this morning, I can no longer connect with Proton BattlEye Runtime. I've come from clean-slate on all of 6.3-8, 7.0-1, and Proton Experimental with identical results. I was playing as recently as 1am Mountain time last night, but now all I get is BattlEye: Bad Packet within 30 seconds of connecting.

1. I've ensured that there were no other software changes made on my machine in that time frame.
2. I've completely deleted/reinstalled both the game
3. I've completely nuked the prefix folder (multiple times because multiple proton versions)
4. I've verified that my ip route table wouldn't be throwing away any random traffic AFAIK

default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp67s0 proto dhcp src 192.168.0.23 metric 1024
192.168.0.0/24 dev enp67s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.23 metric 1024
192.168.0.1 dev enp67s0 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.0.23 metric 1024

5. I have verified that this is not a true connectivity issue by confirming that it does work from Windows

6. I have tried connecting with a VPN to rule out issues with my ISP

7: I have verified via logs that BEClient_x64.dll is being treated as a builtin DLL (i.e. proton/wine is properly finding the Proton BattlEye Runtime and loading the fakedll supplied within)

The time range for this starting was between 1am Mountain 20220223 and 6:40am Mountain 20220223.

I know nobody likely has an immediate solution, but if anyone could verity that BattlEye is either working or not working for them on Proton right now for me, I would be forever in your debt, as this is completely blocking me at the moment. To me, it seems that something external to my setup had to have caused this.

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Simply any confirmation of whether or not it is currently working for you would be enough to at least start to even out my sanity... I'm starting to feel like I'm nuts and had to have missed something

trim ridge
worthy grail
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i am having same issue with Arma, DayZ works fine

gritty sage
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Hard decision to make, shall I make the assumption that they already know about it and are working on it.. Or shall I go bother a very busy person meowsweats

trim ridge
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so given it's ArmA-specific, and definitely on BE's side, I'd say pinging them might get it resolved. I lost half a day to assuming that it had to be on my side

trim ridge
trim ridge
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what do you mean by "conflict of interests" here

worthy grail
#

Looks like it working again for me too.

worthy grail
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Hello, after today update claiming fixing launcher on linux i am having problem launching it but found temporary fix

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.Resources.MissingSatelliteAssemblyException: The satellite assembly named "arma3launcher.resources.dll, PublicKeyToken=" for fallback culture "en-US" either could not be found or could not be loaded. This is generally a setup problem. Please consider reinstalling or repairing the application.

i checked folder "Arma 3/Launcher/en-US/" and it was empty but copied content of folder "Arma 3/Launcher/En-us" to empty folder and launcher now started, will do more test later

wise canyon
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Is that with proton or the ”native” port? linuxtux

worthy grail
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Proton. I think I had leftover empty folder "en-US" from experimental launcher which was uploaded here on discord, after removing it launcher is also working. So this probably only affect people who were testing launcher from this discord thread

wise canyon
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ah, yeah, if you have two folders with "same" name that can cause problems

worthy grail
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Noticed another issue, launcher options and parameters settings are not saved.

gritty sage
wise canyon
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If he used your temp fix before then steam might accidently created another folder with ”same” name now and with proton being case insensitive it probably just picked the first match

gritty sage
flint raven
#

The BattleEye issue seems to be fixed since a few days or maybe even a week (i havent played on any BE enabled server in w while so idk for myself).

A new Issue that popped up with the launcher is that it seems to be laggy and workshop mods are missing completely.

gritty sage
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Laggy yes. workshop mods worked in my test

flint raven
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nvm then seems like it is a user issue

wise canyon
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can confirm launcher works good on 2.08 and latest proton experimental

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expanded news does not show content but since there is a button to open the news item I guess it doesn't really matter 😛

limber needle
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launcher works fine for me too, also with mods

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A3UL now

worthy grail
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does it save "Parameters" and "launcher options" for you?

limber needle
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oh, that's actually broken, selected few parameters, closed the launcher after few seconds, started it again and they're unselected

wise canyon
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same, no persistence of parameters

gritty sage
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Well atleast it mostly works :3

wise canyon
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yeah, it's good enough for average user not trying to following some outdated wrong performance optimization guide

flint raven
deft crag
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Anyone else have the issue of the official Launcher trying to verify/update mods, but never making any progress? All my workshop mods are marked as "Not installed" with the little orange/yellow clock icon, despite them all.. well, being installed

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237 mods all marked as not installed, some flash the green updating icon then immediately go back to the not installed one. Unsure what's up

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I'm using Proton 7.0-1 with ESYNC turned off

wise canyon
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check if steam is updating them or not. steam is doing the actual work, launcher is just reporting what steam says

deft crag
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Steam reports a completed download of 2.2mb, but nothing queued

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Certainly no download sized appropriately for all the CUPs, RHSs, VSMs, 3CBs, IFA3s, and the 200-ish terrain, vehicle, and script mods I have - probably due to the fact that they are all there, in the steamapps/workshop/107410 folder

deft crag
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Gonna try with ESYNC turned on to see if that has any effect

deft crag
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No effect

flint raven
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I have a poll for players that use my Arma3Helper script for Teamspeak or generally playing on Linux with TFAR/ACRE.
Do you think a GUI version would be beneficial?
https://strawpoll.com/polls/jVyGJbN5GZ7
Sry if this is prohibited on the Discord

timber chasm
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Nearly got the game running just got this "0xC0000005 - STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION" error.

timber chasm
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I've tried the -malloc=system and -profile=Profiles

gritty sage
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@timber chasm send me the .mdmp file from the crash (in a zip), or the report file from Arma Launcher

timber chasm
timber chasm
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._.

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um

gritty sage
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Well I didn't get any

timber chasm
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367227

gritty sage
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Not Found
Just pack it in a zip and send it to me in discord

timber chasm
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mk

timber chasm
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Alright.

timber chasm
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Done

gritty sage
#

Part 1
The error is Aperture format DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UINT (30) not supported by queries
engine only supports R16/R32 floats.

Part 2
Whoever wrote that error message messed it up and made the game crash on error, instead of reporting the error

#

seems like your graphics thingies don't support

DXGI_FORMAT_R32_FLOAT or DXGI_FORMAT_R16_FLOAT
as D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT_RENDER_TARGET & D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT_BLENDABLE & D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT_TEXTURE2D & D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT_SHADER_SAMPLE

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I've fixed the crash, but that error will still kill the game.

timber chasm
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Hhhmmm. So what can I do, next?

gritty sage
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I don't know further, maybe the real Linux people know

wise canyon
timber chasm
teal tinsel
# timber chasm Nope, AMD.

Which AMD drivers are you using to run the game? Are you using DXVK or not? Are your drivers up-to-date?

teal tinsel
timber chasm
teal tinsel
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Oh yeah I can see the problem already. Are you launching Arma with any flags/variables?

timber chasm
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"PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%"

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just that

teal tinsel
#

Hmm. Can you check your drivers?

#

Does Mesa even support your GPU? I'm pretty sure it should

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Also whats your distro?

timber chasm
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Ja, althought AMD stopped updating this

timber chasm
teal tinsel
#

That makes things a bit simpler. Have you installed the 32bit drivers?

worthy grail
#

driver is probably defaulting for radeon driver instead of amdgpu

teal tinsel
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Im pretty sure AMDGPU doesn't support that card

#

Or wait

#

If its CGN then amdgpu should work

#

But thats where my knowledge ends

timber chasm
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hmm

worthy grail
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lspci -k | grep -A 3 VGA

teal tinsel
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Im on Nvidia so cant help you with loading the correct driver

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sorry

worthy grail
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can you post output of that command?

timber chasm
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ja, drivers can be a pain sometimes

wise canyon
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PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1

worthy grail
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run this command in terminal: lspci -k | grep -A 3 VGA

wise canyon
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Not PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1

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According to proton docs

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To use OpenGL instead of Vulkan

worthy grail
#

in the end you can try to use AMDGPU driver because of your GPU is defaulting to older radeon driver without vulkan support

sage tendon
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seconding this ^

worthy grail
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Is there way to get older launcher before linux compatibility patches were introduced? I want to test it with latest Proton Experimental because it made DayZ launcher works(Mods doesn't work. Show corrupted). I just wonder if it would be same with Arma launcher.

wise canyon
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Use legacy branch

worthy grail
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thank you, didn't know this was a thing, Downloading right now

worthy grail
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i tried legacy branch 206 and launcher worked with latest proton experimental, mods didn't work and there was same bug that didn't save Parameters and launch option

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so they fixed on proton side the reason why launcher was crashing before linux compability patches

gritty sage
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Not sure what you're talking about?
The early "linux" fixes that were done, were outright bugs in launcher that just threw warnings on windows but crashed on linux.
Good when they fixed the crash now, but it was still invalid/wrong code, so that they fixed it doesn't reeally matter

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the main issue now is performance

worthy grail
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oh didn't know about that it was also bug in Windows

alpine pike
#

Hey all! Just wanted to know how much success people have running Arma3 on MacBook Pro using boot camp? Is it playable? Are you able to run teamspeak and steam in the background without issue?

wise canyon
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depends on which macbook pro model

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but it's not gonna be a great experience

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running with bootcamp (windows) is not a fitting discussion for this channel, this is for the macOS port of the game

pallid finch
#

can someone help with this

worthy grail
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how is he launching game? If via official launcher he must run launcher first and teamspeak second. With unofficial arma3 unix launcher it doesn't matter. Also you must make sure you are using same proton version with arma and TS. Same thing with enabling/disabling esync and fsync.

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if yes he need to edit config part first

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thats how mine looks

flint raven
flint raven
worthy grail
#

Anyone had problem with default radio keybind "Caps Lock" on linux? Sometimes even after releasing button my radio would still transmit my voice or sometimes it didn't detect pressing it. No problem after changing keybind.

flint raven
worthy grail
flint raven
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baecause some default stuff will tab you out

sly rover
#

So Reforger works if you run it without BattlEye.

warm dune
#

k after running around like headless chickens the ArmaOnUnix Discord has it working by renaming exes

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@left fog Are there plans to enable Proton support for Reforger, or plans for a launch option to run without BattlEye?

worthy grail
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yeah, hope they add linux support like for arma 3 and DayZ

short tulip
sly rover
#

DayZ and Arma 3 fully work right now, though. Perform well, all the features work, all the mods work, multiplayer works.

short tulip
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If I have to use Proton, then it's not supported. I don't care how well it works with Proton. I only buy games with official support.

sly rover
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Well, have fun with that!

short tulip
#

Well, I had fun with Arma 3's Single-player Campaign. It's too bad I could hardly go online with it, though.

spring kite
#

Not too long ago arma 3 got battleye support, I'm wondering why new arma didn't get it, don't want uneeded bug reports?

sly rover
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Probably just didn't get to it.

#

It just released into early access, and there is obviously a lot to do.

worthy grail
spring kite
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okay, I want a bot which will notify if proton is supported

#

how game behaves without battleye, in terms of game itself, is it working under linux?

sly rover
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Performance isn't great right now, everything else works fine as far as I can tell.

#

Performance is almost certainly VKD3D

spring kite
#

nvidia gpu?

sly rover
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No, I have a Vega 56

#

But no matter the hardware, dx12 isn't as well performing in Proton right now.

spring kite
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agree

#

well at least something

#

this game is to train proton devs to support new arma 4 in the future 🙂

sly rover
#

I did the tutorial and messed around in the game master thing by myself. Certainly promising.

spring kite
#

🤞

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@sly rover do you have startup command so I can run this game from steam? using it's proton (not my wine version)

sly rover
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Set the following launch option on Steam to start Arma Reforger with Proton. This bypasses BattlEye, which is required for now.

echo "%command%" | sed 's/ArmaReforger_BE.exe/ArmaReforgerSteam.exe/' | sh
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For the launch options in Steam.

#

The workshop tools seem to work out of the box too.

short tulip
sly rover
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Well there will always be mods that hook into the game at a lower level.

#

Like TFAR/ACRE, which can't work through just scripting.

gritty sage
worthy grail
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I just bought Arma Reforger, Lets test it out on Linux. Hope I will not be dissapointed

sly rover
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If you don't expect anticheat to work and you are okay with worse performance, you won't be disappointed.

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Otherwise... you have unrealistic expectations.

short tulip
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I have Arma Reforger on my wishlist, indicating my interest in the game, but only for a Linux version. And I will not buy the game without a native Linux version.

worthy grail
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yeah that what i mean. If they add anticheat proton support. It's all good.

short tulip
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If the situation with Linux support isn't IMPROVED from ARMA 3, then the game is not worth my time, money, or attention.

short tulip
sly rover
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lol

short tulip
#

I'm totally serious here.

sly rover
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Oh I know you are serious. But Proton is a huge upgrade in Linux support over the Linux port we got.

worthy grail
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I know i just hope for future anticheat support

short tulip
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It's been the excuse for a lot of developers to fall back on Linux support. Arma Reforger is just the latest example of this terrible trend.

sly rover
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Like in the port, you are on an older version, worse performance, no support for the advanced flight model, worse mod compatibility if you can even get things for the right version, etc.

#

So you can complain all you like, but the situation is better.

gritty sage
sly rover
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I've already asked in a couple places if we could get BE Proton enabled. That's enough for me.

short tulip
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And with the newest version, you're basically just running the Windows version. And you're giving the cold shoulder to actual support that we have every reason to reward.

short tulip
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It could very well be that the Enfusion is just a lost cause at this point. And the best we can get out of ARMA Reforger is just another Winewrapped port, just like ARMA 3, with the same drawbacks of ARMA 3.

sly rover
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Because being one of the few devs to enable BattlEye for Linux (natively or in Proton) is not taking things seriously.

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Man. You are funny.

worthy grail
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95-105 fps at the start of tutorial at 1440p with hhigh setting with AMD RX 6800 and AMD 5600x CPU

worthy grail
bright oak
bright oak
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Surprised the tools work without Proton. I tried both and it works better without Proton

worthy grail
scenic sleet
warm dune
gritty sage
gritty sage
scenic sleet
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yes, so far anyway, the battleeye wrapper doesn't run

#

personally I've not tried to go further than the main menu, of course they launched the game just as I've moved to a new place and my system is barely up and running, so I've managed to install and start it, but nothing more yet. After work today I'll have to spend a couple of hours unpacking the rest and start putting together so I can actually play the game 🙂

#

Maybe for the Arma 4 launch BI could check my availability prior to doing a surprise release? 😛

gritty sage
gritty sage
sly rover
sly rover
quasi orchid
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Not sure if its a bug, but Proton seems to deal with BE just fine after renaming the files

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@sly rover

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I was playing on several servers for hours* yesterday

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Granted there were crashes and dcs, but my rate of issues was about the same as the ~5 people I was with who I presume are on Windows

bright oak
sly rover
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Nope

bright oak
# sly rover Nope

Did you use proton? I am really at straws trying to debug this issue with Arma Reforger Tools

sly rover
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Yes

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I'm very certain you were also, when you thought you weren't.

bright oak
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Which version? There seems to be no difference between running with Proton or not, for me.

sly rover
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7.0-2

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If you don't set it, you were probably still using Proton.

flint raven
bright oak
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it's funny that you sent that screenshot cause I made made it for the wiki 😄

flint raven
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Yup, I did that on purpose 😛

molten pulsar
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Yo, how's Reforger with proton? 😆

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Including the mod tools :)

bright oak
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Reforger works with proton if you avoid launching BE
Performance is worse on linux than on windows
Most people can run the mod tools as well (I am the only exception 😢 )

molten pulsar
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Yaaaay

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Except for you, I feel your pain 🤗

bright oak
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I am figuring out the issue. My crash.log has the following error:

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MADAMELIZABETH, 19.05 2022 19:28:27
Unhandled exception

Program: Z:\data\SirHenry\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Arma Reforger Tools\Workbench\ArmaReforgerWorkbench.exe
Reason: Access violation. Illegal read by 0x1584260 at 0x8
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Might be a strange permissions error, not sure. But this is preventing me from using the tools on Linux

ornate cypress
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I'm having issues running Reforger even without BattleEye...

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Launches, but then gives Engine Initialization Error "Please check log file for more information: 'C:\users\steamuser\Documents\My Games\ArmaReforger\profile\console.log'!"

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And the log file is magically nowhere to be found

quasi orchid
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You are navigating to [install location place]/compatdata/[game id]/drive_c right? @ornate cypress

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I am assuming so

ornate cypress
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Yeah, it's inside the proton/wine installation]

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Let me try a machine restart, that might do the trick

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@quasi orchid yep, works after restart -- I'm betting it didn't like that my nvidia driver updated.

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Now I just need to keep my fingers crossed that Proton figures out BattleEye

quasi orchid
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It is working on my end,

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What I did was first started the game with 3.8 to trigger that BE setup, not actually sure if this did anything but just giving everything I did

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Then I switched to experimental, did the renaming, and then start the game

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iirc that's all i've really done and things work fine

ornate cypress
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hmm ok, I'll try it

quasi orchid
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i would just try the renaming first and running it

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after that, besides dcing issues and occasional crashes, all is well

ornate cypress
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@quasi orchid works on Proton 7 but not on experimental for me. But it's running quite well!

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Thanks for your help.

sly rover
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I've asked in a couple places if they are considering it. No response yet, that I've seen.

ornate cypress
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Lame. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

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It not being a technical limitation is even more disappointing somehow

sly rover
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Also, you don't need to rename files. Just use the launch command to change the binary you run (as seen here and pinned in the channel): #linux_mac_branch message

ornate cypress
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I saw that pinned message -- it essentially redirects the command to the right executable rather than catering the exe name to the command. Certainly more elegant.

gritty sage
sly rover
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whaaa

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Well the game still doesn't work when BE is enabled.

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Rather, when launching the game from the BE wrapper.

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I assume because Proton support isn't enabled for Reforger, but maybe there is another issue.

warm dune
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Thinking about it more, Arma 3 via Proton didn't need to run the BattlEye executable to make BattlEye work, it just loaded the BE Runtime.

bright oak
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That might explain how Linux users are able to play with other windows users on Reforger without explicitly running the BE executible

warm dune
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Probably

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I'd trace the libraries if I owned Reforger and also cared enough to find out

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But I guess maybe something in the BE executable is weird and crashes regardless

worthy grail
warm dune
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My understanding is that it's just a marker for Steam to go "Download this because it's needed"

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like the "Steamworks Common Redistributables" though that uses depots instead apparently

worthy grail
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yeah you are right, was thinking there was proton logic which decide based on "additional_dependencies" to load proton BE runtime. Looking through BE proton patches this is not the case.

terse garden
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How to unban on Linux DS? Cant find bans.txt anywhere

warm dune
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I think it might be ban.txt?
And it looks like you can do #exec unban "uid_number_here" or #exec clearbans judging from the wiki page

terse garden
proper berry
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Maybe i will repeat that others say but

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Did someone lunched Arma 3 on M1 Arm?

quasi orchid
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Does anyone know where the profile files are located on Linux (Steam client beta)?

strong marsh
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can anyone help me please

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i can't launch arma 3 on my macbook pro

flint raven
strong marsh
strong marsh
flint raven
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from my knowledge Apple Silicon is currently not working

strong marsh
flint raven
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iirc apple is doing their best to be a pita

wise canyon
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Are you blaming Apple that Arma 3 isnt available for arm64? 😛

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I should try the server with rosetta, it did not work with qemu

flint raven
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i blame apple for breaking wine with their "innovations" 😛

wise canyon
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I can play original OFP 0.36 demo on my M1

strong marsh
wise canyon
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no luck on running arma 3 on M1, neither ports nor via crossover. It can be used in Parallels VM but Windows arm64 translation is not as good as Rosetta.

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your best bet is to use some streaming service like nvidia geforce now

quasi orchid
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Does anyone know where the profile files are located on Linux (Steam client beta)?

wise canyon
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Linux Port or Proton?

quasi orchid
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Proton

wise canyon
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you can find the wine prefix at $HOME/.local/share/steam/steamapps/compatdata/107410/pfx

quasi orchid
wise canyon
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you need to create a mission folder, that's where the mission.sqm goes

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and the mission folder must have a name in the format of missionname.worldname