[TUTORIAL] How to Install and Play Escape From Tarkov on GNU/Linux

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Introduction

The information found in this guide has been acquired through a thread on Linux Support from Escape From Tarkov's official forum. You can find a link to the page HERE. Without the efforts of the developers at CodeWeavers, WINE, Valve, and so many other individuals, this would not be possible. Thank you all for your work!

Now, for the guide; I'm using Lutris and Linux Mint 19 to run the game. I'm not saying this is the only way to play, but it is what I am using. If you have issues with getting things working, know that I'm just a Linux noob who wasted hours of my time tinkering until I (basically) got lucky. This is just what I've found that worked for me.

 

Prerequisites

INSTALLING WINE STAGING

Before you begin, you will need to install the latest version of WINE-staging available from HERE. As of this guide, that is version 3.19. You can install it by running these commands (Ubuntu 18.04):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/

For Linux Mint 19, do the same thing, but change the last line out for:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

Then, update your package list and install WINE:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging

Once you have WINE installed, run this command:

winecfg

It will open WINE's configuration menu. Let it do its thing. If it asks you to install WINE mono, say NO! Wine mono will conflict with Microsoft .NET, which is needed for getting the game working.

 

INSTALLING NVIDIA DRIVERS

If you have an NVIDIA card, you will need driver 396.54.09 to enable Vulkan Transform Feedback support. If you use version 396 or 410 right now (AKA the non-beta drivers), you will see missing player models and invisible scavengers when you load into the game. I'm sure AMD has/will have a similar driver to do the same thing, but I don't know what it is right now. THIS ARTICLE may help shed some light on the situation for you AMD folk.

To install NVIDIA driver 396.54.09, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/dev
sudo apt-get update

Then, open your driver manager program and select driver 396.54.09 to install it. You can also find it under synaptic package manager by searching for it, or you can install it via command line. I just wanted to be safe rather than sorry when it comes to drivers. I would advise against installing the driver from NVIDIA's web site if you are a noob like me; when I tried, I completely ruined my driver set up and had to spend hours getting my system back to normal. Again, probably just me being stupid, but I'd rather keep things simple.

 

INSTALLING LUTRIS

Fairly straightforward instructions can be found HERE. Basically, run these commands:

ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != "18.10" -a $ver != "18.04" -a $ver != "16.04" ]; then ver=18.04; fi echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
wget -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Those will set up the Lutris repository. After that, you can install Lutris by updating your package list from synaptic package manager and installing it from there, or you can run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lutris

 

INSTALLING WINETRICKS

Instructions for installing the latest version of Winetricks can be found HERE. Do NOT use the one provided by Linux Mint's default package list, as it will be out of date (at least, it was when I used it; again, better to be safe than sorry). If you don't want to read instructions from the link, just run these commands:

cd ~/Downloads
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

Then, you can run Winetricks by using this command from your installation directory:

sh winetricks [options] [whatever you want to install]

 

ENABLING ESYNC SUPPORT

For esync to work reliably, increase your system's "nofile limit" to 1048576. To do this under Ubuntu / Linux Mint, do...

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system.conf

Then, delete the "#" before "DefaultLimitNOFILE=" and put 1048576 after the equal sign. Save the file (ctrl+x, y, enter) then do the same for the file over here:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/user.conf

And that should be everything you need to set up beforehand. Now, to installing Escape From Tarkov!

 

Installing the Game

FETCHING THE REQUIRED REDISTS

Using Winetricks, install .NET 4.0, then .NET 4.7.2, and also VC Run 2017. Do this by running the following command from wherever you put your Winetricks script:

sh winetricks --force dotnet40 dotnet472 vcrun2017

Many people have a hard time with this part. If it asks to overwrite/repair .NET, always say yes. I run this command with --force because for me, it said .NET 4.0 conflicted with .NET 4.7.2, when that should not be the case.

In addition to this, if you don't already have the fonts-wine package, you should grab it by running this command:

sudo apt-get install fonts-wine -y

Without it, the BSG Launcher will have missing text.

EDIT: Reddit user roadtrain4eg has reported that a bug in Winetricks may prevent some people from installing .NET 4.7.2. If that is the case, please use the patched version they linked to here: https://github.com/austin987/winetricks/commit/24ec901cd81fc6c3c23192a4fe5515c33d060b6b . Bear in mind that I didn't need to do this, and I would first try to install .NET 4.7.2 from Microsoft's OFFLINE installer (NOT the "slim" installer) after you have .NET 4.0 installed if you are still having issues.

 

INSTALLING THE BSG LAUNCHER

If you've played the game in Windows already, you know the drill: download the launcher from escapefromtarkov.com after signing into your account, and install the launcher with WINE like you would any regular program by double clicking the .exe file.

It should install perfectly fine. Once it's done, run the launcher by clicking on the menu entry it created in your distro, sign in, and download/install the game, but DON'T RUN THE GAME YET (I mean, you can, if you want super-duper-low FPS and slug-speed loading times).

 

SETTING UP LUTRIS

Open up Lutris, and select the plus icon at the top to manually add a game.

Copy the following configuration:

Under Game Info...

  • set the runner to Wine

Once WINE is selected, click "Install Runners", scroll down to WINE, then click "Manage Versions" and check the box next to tkg-3.19 to install Lutris's patched WINE-3.19 version that has esync support.

  • set the name to "Escape From Tarkov" (or whatever you want)

  • [OPTIONAL] set up a banner image and menu icon for aesthetics

Under Game Options...

  • set the executable to the BsgLauncher.exe that's inside of your .wine folder. (For Example, my launcher is located in "~/.wine/drive_c/Battlestate Games/BsgLauncher/BsgLauncher.exe")

  • set the wine prefix to ~/.wine

  • set your prefix architecture to 64 bit

Under Runner Options...

  • set your wine version to tkg-3.19-x86_64

  • enable DXVK, with version 9.0 selected (as DXVK updates, you can adjust this as necessary)

  • enable esync (If you don't use a version of wine with tkg or esync-staging included, this may not work right IIRC)

  • set the Offscreen Rendering Mode to Backbuffer

Under System Options...

  • leave everything on the default settings

 

Playing the Game

Open the game using Lutris and you're done!

 

A few notes:

  • If you get any rundll errors, ignore them. The game should still work fine.

  • If you want extra performance, feel free to tinker with Lutris! I don't claim to have the best settings above, but I do claim that they WORK for me. That said, I get 50-60fps most of the time on high settings using a GTX 1070, so if you're having trouble, just stick to the guide.

  • If I left something out, comment below! I'm pretty sure everything's here, though.

  • If you're not using Ubuntu or Linux Mint, I don't think I can help you; I'm just not well versed enough with GNU/Linux to understand the differences between distros.

  • If you're wondering why I didn't make a Lutris installer if all this works, it's because I don't know how to! Feel free to make one if you do!

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