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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
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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2070 Super | 8 gigs
After some research, i think it's an Nvidia driver deficiency with DX12 games. and apparently this hasn't been addressed by nvidia for almost 2 years? I'm considering going AMD for my next upgrade.
Is there anyone running AoC on linux with an nvidia card? what is your distro/wine/proton setup?
I use a Nvidia RTX 4090, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and 64 GB Corsair 6000 MT RAM.
For me the game runs relativly smooth... aside from a few lags here and there (nothing to bad).
I use Nobara Linux 42 with the latest kernel (6.16.8-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64) and Lutris (with GE-Proton10-15) to start the game. To install the game I used my self created yaml-file, which you can find here.
4080Super, 9800X3d and 64GB ram. Garuda Linux distro. Tried with your Lutris YAML install and unfortunately that did not seem to help. Still getting booted with out of video memory error after 30 seconds. Starting to think it has something to do with the distro i'm using.
As it started running worse on windows I switch to a 9070XT 16GB and have 0 complaints now.
I'm not too fluent in unix architectures but it might be a wayland issue that it uses more memory due to the xwayland bridge to adapt the game?
For all those checking in with and without the ram issue.
Please send what you got, that might help us figure out what it is.
GPU: RX 9070XT
GPU Memory: 16GB
OS: Fedora 42
X11 or Wayland: Wayland (Use in your terminal)
Launcher: Faugus (Lutris, Bottles, Faugus, Steam etc.)
And any Launcher Configurations you wanna share
Checking the Launcher Logs you might see ERROR|OpenAuth0UrlAsync|The method or operation is not implemented. likely a function only newer WebView2 Runtimes have.
I got it fixed for me by installing the launcher with the newest version. Seems they changed the WebView2 from 140.0.3485.66 to 140.0.3485.81. The 81 now works and doesn't result in the cloudflare loop.
Last night, I installed Garuda Linux (Mokka) to test it a little and see if there was a general problem with it, but AoC ran just as well for me as it did on Nobara 42. Have you made any major adjustments to your OS?
Also updated the first post for new players.
No Major adjustments, it's practically a fresh install from 2 weeks ago. I used the Garuda Dr460nized version.
I now have also tested Garuda Linux Dr460nized version. The result was the same like before. Performancewise it's on the same level like Nobara 42. Overall I had no crashes, no out of memory error or anything like that, after an playtime of ~30 minutes. I again used Lutris with Proton-GE10-17.
Didn´t play for a long time. But there is a thread also on Reddit about this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1o9pv9y/ashes_of_creation_linux_users_banned_overnight/
I think this is a misunderstanding and Intrepid will revert those false bans. Just contact the support if you are affected and link this thread. This thread is also one of the biggest in views and comments on the whole forum, so I guess there is a big community which is playing on Linux.
If you think you were impacted by this, please open a ticket with our support team.
So I can safely log without risking losing my account, right ? Support said EAC isn't 100% compatible to Linux. I'm kinda stressed to log in.
If I were you, I would wait a bit. I do know some other players haven't got banned using linux, but I think we need to wait for the weekend to be over so that someone takes a look at the issue.
I will wait maybe a full week or until Intrepid says all is okay.
Note all I've done is follow the guide posted here.
Lutris to run launcher and steam to run client to support EAC.
It would seem using steam to launch client is an "exploit"
This is wrong, but we cant really help how Intrepid picks this kind of stuff up. I happen to know for a fact that the game DOESN'T launch if EAC isn't at least installed properly (one of my early setup attempts EAC failed to install and the game didn't launch).
I am very dissapointed in how this has been handled. I'm not dissapointed at the CS team who had to do the review, but the team involved in Anti-Cheat and "Shols Eye", and the way they went straight to the Account Closed Perma Ban hammer without first: warning us, asking us if we "knew" we were bypassing EAC, asking us how we were doing it, anything really....
Especially in the context where there have been groups of players in the tests up to now who have been abusing exploits and bugs over and over and over again and the most they got were phase bans or character deletions....
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/509563#Comment_509563
Phew, that statement is really a complete disaster. EAC officially supports Linux, and talking about a bypass here is honestly quite baffling.
Just the threat of losing your account simply for testing a game — as any alpha would require — to support a growing Linux gaming community is something I find completely unacceptable.
I don't think Intrepid can afford another shitstorm after their recent PR disaster. Always wanting to keep up with the latest tech and upgrading to Unreal Engine 5, but then being technically stuck in the past and making claims like “EAC isn’t compatible with Linux” — unbelievable. Sorry, but that kind of thing really makes me angry…
@Azalroth, what if this action is being triggered when logging into the game without the steam hook and just using the launcher? could that be the issue? I'm not sure about the latest updates how it works, but I've tried to login without the steam thing like a few weeks ago, and got kicked by EAC a few seconds after spawning.
Getting kicked is the server doing it's checks appropriately. You HAVE to be running EAC to get into the game but you shouldn't get banned if EAC glitches and doesn't properly activate, which can happen even on Windows.
Until they agree to package Ashes with a version of EAC compiled to run on Linux, it is best to not play this game on Linux. Which is a real shame because during an Alpha is the best time to have people playing with your client and testing it. The number of people who had their bans reversed shows that Linux players weren't cheating, someone on their cyber team just didn't like the way we had figured out how to play their game.