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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
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Then you choose the Standard Prefix
Choose the uninstaller
Select Webview2 runtime and press on change
Then you click on repair
Then it should reinstall and works afterwards
If you get EAC kicked error:
You need to add the AOCClient.exe to steam with this argument and select a Proton version. I use for now Proton-GE 10-4
eval $(%command% LauncherTetherPort=$(ss -ulpn | grep wineserv | awk '{split($4, a , ":"); print a[2]}' ) -USEEOS=0 -DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60)In my case I added DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 to limit my FPS to 60 and removed -NOSPLASH. But -USEEOS=0 is needed. For me I get the EAC error if I run it without this argument.
I tried with Faugus Launcher with but I get EAC error as well. So at the moment only with steam possible for now like in the past but with improvements without setting webview version and shadermodel since Proton 10.
Also for the people who want to try , this sadly also not works so we need to wait this 3-5 min for compiling shaders every start
This will be resolved in the future when AOC gets in better shape. So for now it seems Intrepid did indeed not block EAC and it is some weird communication error to EAC daemon, which why -USEEOS=0 is forcing something in the background to avoid this error. We will se in the future. At least we can play
General Setup and Launcher
Linux version
Linux of old will not work - anything debian based or Ubuntu based will have problems that may not iron out until 1-2 years from now. The kernel is so old and does not include some of the new features that are needed for functionality and performance. So if you are using an older system, then I would look at moving to anything fedora based, Nobara, catchyOS, Arch etc.
Installing the Launcher.
This is a long standing issue with the Tetherport and MsEdgeView2 install. The principal still stands with Intrepid using the MSwebView2 launcher for authentication and the Launcher not being able to pass this to AOCClient.exe without some kind of intervention. Despite this, it still works providing the correct methods are followed which are included here.
Webview 2 still requires Windows7 version in the winecfg. I don't know why it keeps breaking with the Windows 8 version which are default but at least we know that 7 works. Keeping it as windows 8 you get the white/black screen issue and cant enter your username or password or see the cloudflare window.
Making changes to the settings of an install - for example changing the runner after the game is installed will not have the desired affect. Know the settings and runner you are going to use and install it using that runner. Switching later on may break the game and removing everything completely and reinstalling will be needed.
One thing I have noticed is that I have had to reinstall the game more than once to get things working. If things are broken for you, and they should be working then remove everything and reinstall everything, this may include bottles, steam, Lutris, Faugus and even nvidia drivers. Once you have this sorted then reinstall the game. Although to some this may seem like an unnecessary task, the state the game is in within a bottle sometimes cannot be undone and the only option is to reinstall.
Running the game
Character Screen
I will say that since day 1, I don't think I have had a major issue accessing the character screen. What I will say is that the character screen has been a bit glitched, textures missing etc. Everything seems to be getting better slowly.
Loading Main Game
Recently I have noted that the shader loading progress has appeared on the screen after the last few patches. This is good, because before it was just a black screen, so at least you can see the progress. Although when there is a patch, there are a ton of shaders to process for the first time logging into the game after the patch. So you have to wait a lot longer to run the shader renders compared to logging in on Windows.
Apart from this, the game loads fine. Although historically I have seen that the game will not get to this point and it will black screen/crash in terms of the CPU will lock up. Running a ps on the Win64Shipping client and killing that will bring your system back, I tried this in windowed mode, with a low res and low detail and it was still crashing the system in 1024x768. However this seems to have been solved now, so I think a runner update and kernel/firmware updates have sorted this out it seems and have have not had the freeze for at least 2 months now.
Performance
Performance is playable but not as smooth as Windows. I am running 3080 intel 9900k with 16GB DDR4000. It handles fine on Windows but on Linux I have to scale down the textures to low. If I use anything else, I am usually OK, but in a town or a busy area with lots of models the system just crashes out without warning. IT does not do this on the Windows partition though
Very rarely the games FPS will reduce by approx 50%. For example I will be riding a horse and then ill join a group and then all of a sudden my FPS goes from about 80 to 30. Quitting the game fixes this. Usually joining a group isn't a problem but I have seen this happen 2 times now.
Interface issues
So there are a few niggles with the interface, but the biggest one is that some abilities just stop working and go dark. Moving is fine, its just anything on the bar disappears - for example grit disappeared for me yesterday alongside a few other abilities when I was tanking and then on the screen there was an error of "error". Some people in the group said that they had seen the same and a re-log sorted it out
The interface seems very slightly slower than Windows. For example, buying/selling/crafting. There seems to be a very slight delay when submitting something on a window in the game compared to Windows. This is to be expected I guess but its just an observation.
Textures sometimes go missing on the character. So I sometimes will start the game wearing no clothes (on the character, not in real life). And it takes a good 10 mins before my textures appear.
The map slows down the system generally. Pressing M in the game has a large performance hit to the game and can cause a game crash. In fact, in a city pressing M within the game on the last patch has crashed the game about 4 times. This is not every time I press M just enough to make me concerned about pressing M in certain areas, for example cities and busy areas.
Clicking on the interfaces sometimes fails. Pressing ESC does not work either. Key shortcuts work, but I cant click on or select anything with the mouse. A relog sorts it out.
Thats about it so far. I have to point out that these are just my experiences on Linux. The game is very playable but there are some things to be aware of. Things have got better and they will continue to do so.
I think for the FPS, you can fix it by just logging out to the character selector. My fps is capped at 60 but every time i get into a town, even with small population, it goes around 30. I will check to see if it's the same case for windows as I can't remember.
I am currently trying out Optiscaler, which seems to improve the visuals a bit by using FSR 4.
I know this has been repeated by some parties, but it is not true, at least when it comes to Ubuntu. I have run AoC on both Ubuntu (24.04) and Fedora (41) and the performance is equivalent. The most important bits to running Windows games in Linux are Wine and dxvk, and the latest version of each is available to any distro.
Debian is quite old, and though I'm sure it can be made to work, is probably not as user-friendly to newbies, will have a harder time putting it all together, since gaming is generally not Debian's target use case.
If you're only here to criticize people without contributing or offering any help yourself, then keep this thread clean and spare us your pointless opinions.
Welcome to Fedora
Did you switch from Windows to Fedora? Maybe you miss some partitions to format in the initial install. You can change this easily with gparted from the Gnome or KDE Flatpak store with a nice GUI.
You can check with what partitions you have and the remaining space. For your data only mountpoint /home is where you need the space for games etc.
It is up to you what you want to use. For me I am now with Faugus because it is very lightweight and I have more freedom to change seperate exe's in the same prefix with different proton versions and I had problems with Lutris and Bottles with Epic Games Launcher when the hype for Battlefront 2 was high.
I did, I distrohopped a little bit, ended up really liking Linux Mint and Fedora, but ultimately landed on Fedora as I wanted a distro that was updated regularly but not on the true bleeding edge. VERY happy with the switch so far (aside from figuring out how to get the remaining apps I used on Windows working here, but I'll get there lol).
Fedora is on it's own SSD, so no partitioning issues, but I think I figured out the space issue. However, if you and ares20 are recommending Faugus, I'll check it out!