Help needed: War Thunder crashes on Intel HD 4400 - Heavy Cavalry update

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Hello everyone,

I need technical help. Since the Heavy Cavalry update,
War Thunder crashes immediately when any match starts

  • even Test Flight.

My specs:

  • Dell Latitude E5440
  • Intel HD 4400 (integrated GPU)
  • 12GB RAM
  • Zorin OS (Linux) / Ubuntu 24.04
  • Mesa 25.2.8
  • War Thunder 2.55.1

What I have already tried:
✖ All graphics set to minimum/ultralow
✖ Shadows, clouds, sky disabled in config.blk
✖ renderer changed to OpenGL
✖ Shader cache cleared
✖ Full reinstall
✖ Minimal client (22.5GB)
✖ TLP disabled
✖ fpsLimit set to 30

Game crashes the moment match loads.
No error in terminal except MESA Vulkan warning.

Has anyone with Intel integrated graphics
found a fix for Heavy Cavalry update?

Any help is appreciated. o7

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Hello @Huraira-Bhatti,

Unfortunately the Intel HD 4400 is well below the minimum supported GPU for WT so there isn’t much I can do however I would suggest to try upgrading your Mesa version as 25.2.8 is getting a bit old now and upgrading to a newer version of Mesa can sometimes fix crashes.

Also the OpenGL renderer is no longer available on the Linux client and hasn’t been for a while.

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