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PayPalValve has announced today that BattlEye support on Linux with Steam Play Proton has expanded, with new titles available.
As previously announced, currently all developers need to do to make it work is to email BattlEye. That's it. However, developers will still of course want time to test, so it's not exactly an instant thing. Still, it's fantastic progress and now even more games can be enjoyed.
The current list of support titles has expanded and is now:
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- Arma 3
- DayZ (avoid the launcher, use the second option Steam gives)
- DayZ also needs a higher max_map_count, you can up it temporarily by doing:
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576
And permanently:
echo 'vm.max_map_count=1048576' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/vm.max_map_count.conf
- DayZ also needs a higher max_map_count, you can up it temporarily by doing:
- Unturned
- Planetside 2 (use "--disable-gpu" as a launch option, otherwise launcher is blank)
Hopefully by the time the Linux-powered handheld Steam Deck starts shipping in February 2022, that list will expand. I'm still personally hopeful we can see the likes of PUBG working.
You should no longer need Proton Experimental either, since Proton 6.3-8 released back in late November pulled in the BattlEye support.
In related news, Proton Experimental itself was also upgraded recently making Final Fantasy XIV playable, there's a fix for Marvel's Avengers showing prompt about outdated drivers on launch, a fix for eFootball PES 2021 and 2022 crashing on launch, a fix for audio in Mass Effect 1 from Mass Effect Legendary Edition and also improved compatibility with binary Nvidia drivers.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
* Confirmed unofficially and in private by a friendly BI dev that they were being charged eye-watering amounts to keep the port updated.
Last edited by GBee on 4 December 2021 at 2:04 pm UTC
hardpenguin Dec 4, 2021
ARMA 3 is working for me.
Last edited by tom34 on 4 December 2021 at 7:58 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestYou stuck on loading screen too?Quoting: tom34DayZ is crashing on my PC at loading screen:
ARMA 3 is working for me.
I'm not able to get DayZ working either. :(
Quoting: GuestThx, now its working :DQuoting: tom34Quoting: GuestYou stuck on loading screen too?Quoting: tom34DayZ is crashing on my PC at loading screen:
ARMA 3 is working for me.
I'm not able to get DayZ working either. :(
I found this while searching around and it may help you so I figured I would share.
"I was able to get it working by running this command:
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576
To make it permanent:
echo 'vm.max_map_count=1048576' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/vm.max_map_count.conf
Taken from https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r86ziz/more_battleye_titles_for_proton_on_linux/hn6lxzm/
Game now loads and plays fine when started with the second launch option."
Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3899
My guess is Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft likes money, asking to have BattlEye enabled seems like a easy way to make money for them.
Quoting: GuestQuoting: tom34Quoting: GuestYou stuck on loading screen too?Quoting: tom34DayZ is crashing on my PC at loading screen:
ARMA 3 is working for me.
I'm not able to get DayZ working either. :(
I found this while searching around and it may help you so I figured I would share.
"I was able to get it working by running this command:
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576
To make it permanent:
echo 'vm.max_map_count=1048576' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/vm.max_map_count.conf
Taken from https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r86ziz/more_battleye_titles_for_proton_on_linux/hn6lxzm/
Game now loads and plays fine when started with the second launch option."
Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3899
Wow that is a lot of memory mappings. I assume that Windows doesn't limit this or have a higher default, the default on Linux is 65535.
He not have time ATM, but created this issue https://github.com/muttleyxd/arma3-unix-launcher/issues/180 maybe someone convert this tool for DayZ. :D
Last edited by tom34 on 5 December 2021 at 9:21 pm UTC
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