Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator updated, now featuring Steam Workshop support

I've spent oh so many hours in ET2. If it performed better in Linux, I would probably spend other crazy hours on it. But just as with Cities Skyline, I don't tolerate that kind of performance anymore.

For me the both games run fine on mesa radeonsi driver with max Settings.
A little bit better performonce would be nice but i think thats maybe an mesa problem too.

I don't understand why the original ETS used these pseudo companies with a similar logo and slightly modified name of real companies (like IKEA→IKA, FedEx→PostEd). The logos and names are so similar that they probably violate trademark law anyway. And why didn't they get permissions from the real companies? The companies should be happy or even pay the ETS developers money for the in-game advertisement.


Last edited by enz on 12 April 2016 at 10:57 am UTC

It still turn off my second monitor when I start this damn game.

Still no fix for the game not recognizing the Steam Controller in Linux. I sent them an email about it several months ago, and they acknowledged they were aware of the issue and would be fixing it in the future, so when I saw a major patch start downloading yesterday, I thought maybe they had finally addressed it. Nope.

So I sent them another email requesting a solution.

I've spent oh so many hours in ET2. If it performed better in Linux, I would probably spend other crazy hours on it. But just as with Cities Skyline, I don't tolerate that kind of performance anymore.

Last time I installed ETS2 in Windows to check performance, is was about the same in Linux using radeonsi driver (actually a little worst in one Catalyst driver revision, but was better before).

For a Directx9/OpenGL3.3 game, ETS2/ATS are in the heavy side, but only in some cities and areas. The game have huge scenarios and the trucks (not the other cars) are painfully well modeled, as good as Grand Turismo ou Forza games, with the plus that trucks are much complex in shape. And those racing games have only a dozen cars at the screen at the same time (in contrast with 30 to 50 in ETS2/ATS), in tracks much more smaller and less detailed than the cities in ETS2/ATS.

I play with almost everything in max, except mirrors (low) and AA (off). I use the scale at 400%, so the image quality is really sharp, giving me around 30 FPS in cities and 60 at the roads in a R9 290.

Of course I would love 60 FPS all the time, but it is not a action or race game, so I am fine with it. So much that I put 283 hours in ETS2 and 57 at ATS.

I've logged 495 hours on ETS2 and 80 hours on ATS so far (that's easily verifiable on my Steam profile, http://steamcommunity.com/id/catchatyou/games/?tab=all). I've logged all of those hours with an Xbox 360 controller, and it's worked well for me, so I don't think a steering wheel is absolutely necessary. All 80 hours of ATS have been played on Linux while only ~30 hours of ETS2 have been on Linux unfortunately.

Performance isn't a night and day difference on SCS games like others, but there still is a noticeable performance difference. I simply bought a beefier graphics card to make up the difference, and that's good enough for me.

"You can now expand your trucking simulators with community create mods in both Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator."

The game already had mod support, it just makes it more easier. :) SCS is a good company, they really care about their costumers.

Oh I aware, I was speaking directly about Workshop support which is what the article is about :)

(...) I've logged all of those hours with an Xbox 360 controller, and it's worked well for me, so I don't think a steering wheel is absolutely necessary (...)

Playing with the Xbox 360 controller, what do you do about the missing buttons, do you have a keyboard at hand? I'm playing with the Xbox controller too but have a few keys assigned to the Steam Controller which I have lying beside me, stuff like raising/lowering the rear wheels, starting/stopping the engine etc. This is why I'd love to play with the Steam Controller instead, since it has more buttons available.

Still no fix for the game not recognizing the Steam Controller in Linux. I sent them an email about it several months ago, and they acknowledged they were aware of the issue and would be fixing it in the future, so when I saw a major patch start downloading yesterday, I thought maybe they had finally addressed it. Nope.

So I sent them another email requesting a solution.

Still no force feedback on wheels in linux either...

Playing with the Xbox 360 controller, what do you do about the missing buttons, do you have a keyboard at hand? I'm playing with the Xbox controller too but have a few keys assigned to the Steam Controller which I have lying beside me, stuff like raising/lowering the rear wheels, starting/stopping the engine etc. This is why I'd love to play with the Steam Controller instead, since it has more buttons available.

I have three computers at my desktop, one of which is my custom built Linux gaming machine, so the keyboard and mouse are easily available for the times (particularly navigating through the menus and after a load is delivered) when they are needed. I do understand that a controller probably isn't enough to get by for the couch PC gamers. There was a time when I could move a mouse cursor with the controller and press an action key to select buttons, but somewhere along the line, I must have unintentionally changed a setting that disabled it. Either way, it works great for all of the time outside of menus as I have my buttons mapped to where I only need the essentials, and I even have a few buttons left over that I don't use (mostly on the D pad). I have mapped the "back" button of the controller to turn on and off the engine for instance.

My setup for 360 and One joypads:

LS=Wheel
RS=Look
LSB=Cruise Control,
RSB=Center view,
Dpad left/right=Turn signals
Dpad up=GPS zoom
Dpad down=cargo info
Back=World map
Start=Game menu
X=Start/Stop engine
A=Select
Y=Lights mode
B=Engage/Disengage trailer
LB=High beam light
RB=Whippers
LT=Brake
RT=Gas

And I drive with "Simple Automatic" transmission.

Since I play at a desktop, a mouse and keyboard are at hand.

I'm a Big fan of this game. I spent more than 250 hours in it. I'm very happy with the inclusion of Steamworks in ETS2, but I'm very disappointed to see that the Steam Controller support don' t exist.

I think I've spent more hours making mods for ATS than I have actually playing it :-P. The workshop uploader doesn't work with linux yet, but I got my mods on there anyway :-).

As for my hour count of playing ETS2? Well let's just say it is too many.

Oh, and I used keyboard mouse with a custom key layout with the "real automatic" transmission.


Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 14 April 2016 at 4:52 pm UTC