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[BlackYps]

i used your video guide and I can start downlords client now and also create games. I didn't join games yet because my internet connection is a bit crappy at the moment, but i noticed two things that I do not understand.

First: I have to start the client via

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./downlords-faf-client

being in the home directory and trying

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faf/downlords-faf-client

gives me the following error

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Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : lib/webview-patch.jar
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: instrument

also just executing the file via double clicking doesn't work either.

Second: in game i don't see any particles. At first it didn't bother me, but after a while I noticed how much is effectively missing. It is really unpleasant to only see the scorch marks and not the burning napalm on top.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[foodlfg]

hi! o/

as for the Downlord's client,
last time i've checked, it installed itself to "/opt/something..." and you had to launch the client from its directory otherwise it didn't work. there was no fix for that and i don't get why it was/is like that.

as for missing effects,
if you have an AMD card, some effects will be missing. i don't now why. i haven't seen a fix for that.


also, please test for long ingame time crashes. 50+ minutes ingame.

- on the other hand my game always crashes when i play the game too long. can someone test this for me? is this the same for everyone on linux?
you don't have to do much just run a long replay in the background (10X speed whatever). for example a Giebmasse (search for his name) replay, he has long Setons games. the game always crashes for me when the "game time" reaches ~43:00 so pls chose a replay that is longer than 1 hour (1:00:00)

these crashes ruin the game for me so i haven't played seriously for a long time. :/
Tatsu said in the Proton github repo that enabling emulated desktop for wine + game running in windowed mode fixes the problem but this doesn't work for me, i still get crashes.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton ... -463391104

Crash:
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0095854f
attempted to write memory at 0x01f60000

maybe gallium nine can help. the Ubuntu 18.10 mesa driver has it apparently, no need for installing a new one. you only need a gallium nine compatible wine which couldn't run the game for me back then. lol but it's worth trying again, i guess.


as you can see, this game's compatibility with linux/the wine environment is not the greatest. it works but not fully.

[tatsu]

Second: in game i don't see any particles. At first it didn't bother me, but after a while I noticed how much is effectively missing. It is really unpleasant to only see the scorch marks and not the burning napalm on top.

Any ideas how to fix this?

hi! thanks for the feedback. this isn't an amd specific issue as mentioned above. it happends on my nvidia as well.

wine has just never supported FA particles, sorry :/

[BlackYps]

That's unfortunate to hear. I guess I will have to try a virtual machine with windows then.
Sadly, can't help you with investigating the crashes because I had to reinstall my machine yesterday and I am kinda unmotivated to set up faf again now that I know that I can't achieve a fully working game anyway :/

thank you both for the info!

[tatsu]

btw 1v1 and so on fixed if you put :

/home/t/.faforever/bin

in the execution directory slot (replace t with your $USER)

[ZeRen]

btw 1v1 and so on fixed if you put :

/home/t/.faforever/bin

in the execution directory slot (replace t with your $USER)

what is "execution directory slot "?

[tatsu]

what is "execution directory slot "?

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[ZeRen]

thx,

tatsu, what is best way to uninstal java?I followed your new video quide and used those comand to instal java, but something went wrongI got this:

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No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found on your system.
The version of the JVM must be at least 1.8.0_152 and at most 1.8.0_999.
Please define INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME to point to a suitable JVM.


so I wanna try to uninstall java completly and do clean install, and guides I found on internet are confusing foŕ me, as linux noob

[Geosearchef]

That depends on the way you installed it. If it was via aptitude (apt-get) you can unistall using apt purge [package] or apt remove [package]. To get the java install location if installed manually you can run which java.

You don't need to uninstall though. Just download a jdk 10, unpack it somewhere you like and set an environment variable with the required name given in the error to this path (the jdk top folder, not the bin folder). Probably using the export command, you need to set it each time you launch a new session, so you could just add it to the end of your .bashrc file.

[tatsu]

thx,

tatsu, what is best way to uninstal java?I followed your new video quide and used those comand to instal java, but something went wrongI got this:

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No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found on your system.
The version of the JVM must be at least 1.8.0_152 and at most 1.8.0_999.
Please define INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME to point to a suitable JVM.


so I wanna try to uninstall java completly and do clean install, and guides I found on internet are confusing foŕ me, as linux noob

It looks pretty good to me. you just need to

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echo export INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-10.0.2 >> ~/.bashrc

and then

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source .bashrc

new guide incoming since so damn much changed in the meantime but it won't be here until this weekend.

if you really really wanna remove java :
(first off, if you had another version of java installed before mine, run : )

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java -version

to get the version number, then just in case :

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sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove openjdk*

that may do nothing which it shouldn't but follow that up with (use the version number from above, if you have something different) (remove-all "java" might also work) :

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sudo update-alternatives --remove "java"  "/usr/lib/jvmjdk-10.0.2/bin/java"
sudo update-alternatives --remove "javac"  "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-10.0.2/bin/javac"
sudo update-alternatives --remove "javaws"  "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-10.0.2/bin/javaws"
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/jvm

edit your /etc/environment in order to remove the java parts we added :

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sudo gedit /etc/environment

should look something like this when you're done :

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PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

and remove

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export INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-10.0.2

from your .bashrc

then :

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source .bashrc
source /etc/environment

done!

it's as if the java version I made you install was never on your system.