Great news! The update to Arma 3 on Linux has landed, bringing us up to 1.54. Not quite the newest, but better than what we had.
There's plenty of new content and fixes in the 1.54 update you can read up on here.
It's a huge update, but it's not without issues. I have reported them to VP (the porters).
Issue list (Tested on Ubuntu)
For some reason the game will revert to low textures for me constantly. Sometimes the option to go above "Low" on the textures dropdown doesn't even exist for me. Sadly due to this I've only done limited testing, as it looks quite bad on Low.
The audio will often totally bug-out on alt-tab.
BattlEye still isn't supported yet, but it should come down the line in future since it works on Linux now. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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TheRiddick 9 Mar 2016
The texture issue you mention is a old one, basically for videocards of 4gb or less it becomes a issue. My 390x has 8GB and thus it allows ULTRA textures without a hitch, I heard the 980Ti also allows Ultra. I reported the bug way back in the beginning.
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My Titan X with 12GB Vram has the Same issue with low Textures.....
And Performance is bad :/
Last edited by Lintux on 9 Mar 2016 at 3:16 pm UTC
And Performance is bad :/
Last edited by Lintux on 9 Mar 2016 at 3:16 pm UTC
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The texture issue you mention is a old one, basically for videocards of 4gb or less it becomes a issue. My 390x has 8GB and thus it allows ULTRA textures without a hitch, I heard the 980Ti also allows Ultra. I reported the bug way back in the beginning.
I have an Nvidia 980ti, 6GB VRM.
My Titan X with 12GB Vram has the Same issue with low Textures.....
And Performance is bad :/
Not just me then, confirms it's not my system being weird.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 9 Mar 2016 at 3:27 pm UTC
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metro2033fanboy 9 Mar 2016
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The low textures is only a in game settings error, more exactly the higher settings are still applied despite what is displayed in settings.
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Its wierd for me no bug at all :D i got gtx 970 4gb and i7 6700 cpu :P
and so much smoother 60 fps at very high, useing ofc ZorinOS 11
only bug i got is when i tryed to install exile mod and join a server
it will say exile mod not with your current arma version or something :P
Last edited by IDNO on 9 Mar 2016 at 4:44 pm UTC
and so much smoother 60 fps at very high, useing ofc ZorinOS 11
only bug i got is when i tryed to install exile mod and join a server
it will say exile mod not with your current arma version or something :P
Last edited by IDNO on 9 Mar 2016 at 4:44 pm UTC
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Downloading now, but in terms of performance with 1.42 I was getting a minimum framerate of 60, up over 100fps at times, with everything on max except draw distance which was reduced a bit. (GTX 970 4GB + i7-4790K + 16GB RAM).
This seemed to be in stark contrast to many Windows users who were seeing lousy performance with the same hardware.
If performance drops with the latest version I'll be very disappointed.
This seemed to be in stark contrast to many Windows users who were seeing lousy performance with the same hardware.
If performance drops with the latest version I'll be very disappointed.
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Everyone has a great framerate, when sticking in Singleplayer. The performance drop comes within multiplayer environments, due the rendering and processing of AI and assets which is done by every client by its own.
That's not entirely what I've been reading on the forums - yes, multiplayer is bad for almost everyone, but a fair number of people are also complaining of bad framerates in singleplayer including a couple I interacted with who have the same setup as me. I have no explanation for it, but it seems the situation is a little more complicated than which hardware you are using.
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not having any real issues apart from the sound issue, which comes and goes randomly.
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cRaZy-bisCuiT 9 Mar 2016
If I'm not mistaken it was that game where they did not make any promises regarding linux support in the long run? Why would I buy the game in case it will stay as a beta all it's life?
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BabaoWhisky 9 Mar 2016
I still have the version 1.42 on my Steam Linux and i haven't download if i re-start Steam.
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If I'm not mistaken it was that game where they did not make any promises regarding linux support in the long run? Why would I buy the game in case it will stay as a beta all it's life?
Because it's the best f'ing game in the world?
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Ok, played the update a little last night, performance is still excellent although there were just a couple of stalls where fps dropped to ~48fps for a second before returning to normal, averaging 90fps.
Apart from the new stamina bar, I didn't witness any of the improvements but I was only playing one mission and it's a huge game.
Apart from the new stamina bar, I didn't witness any of the improvements but I was only playing one mission and it's a huge game.
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SystemShock 10 Mar 2016
I will buy this Game when it reaches official Status.
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only bug i got is when i tryed to install exile mod and join a server
it will say exile mod not with your current arma version or something :P
How did you get the Exile mod ? It is not present on Steam Workshop, so I checked out the web site (http://www.exilemod.com/downloads/), but which file to download, which client to use, and mostly where put the file in ?
Thank you so much for your help, I'm so exciting about this mod ! I hope it will be working soon (maybe with the lastest version 1.56 and BattlEye support).
Fabinux
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BabaoWhisky 10 Mar 2016
Need help guys ...
I didn't have the fucking update to 1.54 ....
I didn't have the fucking update to 1.54 ....
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Berillions - Check that you aren't opted into the beta. The update was to the official build, I don't know if it was also pushed to the development build.
Last edited by GBee on 12 Mar 2016 at 8:53 am UTC
Last edited by GBee on 12 Mar 2016 at 8:53 am UTC
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