I asked this question in another thread earlier but since I know it is going to be ignored I’m posting it as a separate thread in the general discussion section here:
Are there any plans for the Linux version of the game to ever get proper Wayland support? The launcher itself runs on Wayland but the game runs through x11. The workarounds like using proton and launching the windows version or using gamescope to force the game into running through Wayland are not solutions, these are cope outs for not paying attention to the Linux client. We know the majority of the player base is on windows but that is no excuse for treating the Linux player base like second class citizens, might as well drop the facade if they don’t care and remove Linux support at that point then.
I will add this comment I wrote describing some of the issues I have personally faced.
They are minor inconveniences that have piled up into a bad taste in my mouth. For starters, the game would refuse to run past the loading screen on Ubuntu based distros, but that was definitely a driver/hardware compatibility issue and not the game itself. I too am on CashyOS right now but under Wayland. Almost every plane has some kind of glitch for me, be it one of afterburner flames on the engines always flickering, or the flare popping animation continuously running despite never having touched the flares, or the game minimising itself to the taskbar on Alt+Tab in fullscreen mode, no way of having any other window running over the game in fullscreen mode, my plane flying in random new directions as the mouse gets captured back by the game as I Alt+Tab back to it, etc. The workaround I’m using to stop it from minimising itself on Alt+Tab is running the game in windowed mode and hiding the titlebar for the game window. These are just the ones I could remember off the top of my head.
To be honest, only trouble I encountered is that anti-cheat related freeze at the beginning of every ground match. Fedora Wayland with full AMD. Excluding this, War Thunder have pretty good Linux version in my opinion. But that freezing is veeeery irritating, so I can’t really pick “everything is fine” either.
I’d say the linux support is decent and seems to work well for most people. Have you reported some of your issues on the bug report website? If you don’t those issue might not get fixed.
Also, if those issue are related to wayland, you can always use gamescope to run the game.
I personally know 1 thing that lacks Linux support: VR. I think the feature parity would be complete if the linux build supported it.
Have the exact experience with linux, also on full AMD, and fedora with that anti-cheat freeze at ever start of match, its extremly annoying, but im also begining to think it might be due to Wayland perhaps, im gonna try and reinstall with another desktop enviroment that uses Xorg to see if it persists, or have you allready tried this?
I used KDE on X11 on a nvidia GPU and got that stutter. Now on AMD and wayland (Gnome) and still get it. Not like micro stutters but a big one at the start of the match. Probably not graphics related.
When leaving a game/replay, I get a crash. It’s extremly consistant. Before making a bug report (which will be marked as accepted for 12 years) I’d like to ask if i’m the only one.
same! just opened the forum to find ppl with the same issue.
arch linux, hyprland (wayland), 5800x3d + 4070 super (nvidia open drivers), running through gamescope (gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -r 280 -f --force-grab-cursor – %command%)