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TERA players on Linux(Wine) anyone?

KAJINOFEKAJINOFE
in TERA PC - General Discussion
Is anyone playing Tera on Linux? If so, what is your setup?

GPU and driver (open source/proprietary):
CPU:
RAM size:
Misc. (CSMT/Gallium Nine/non-staging etc...):

Comments

  • KrovocKrovoc ✭✭
    I tried, but i can't get the launcher to work. I'm sure the game runs, since it's UR3 engine, but that doesn't mean [filtered] if I can't open the launcher. Of course, the UI is coded in some sort of [filtered] backwards [filtered] language that runs on top of flash, so who knows about that.
  • TsukasaKunTsukasaKun ✭✭
    GPU: GT670M, proprietary driver
    CPU: i7 3630QM
    RAM: 16gb
    Misc: You'll want the staging version of Wine. The easiest way to get it is via PlayOnLinux (lets you grab pre-compiled binaries). After that, the launcher/game just works. Be sure to NOT use the Happy Cloud installer.. it's finicky even on Windows when it comes to getting data properly.
    Krovoc wrote: »
    I tried, but i can't get the launcher to work. I'm sure the game runs, since it's UR3 engine, but that doesn't mean [filtered] if I can't open the launcher. Of course, the UI is coded in some sort of [filtered] backwards [filtered] language that runs on top of flash, so who knows about that.

    The UI is Scaleform GFx. The reason it doesn't work so well in Tera is because of a perfect storm of bad timing on BHS's part. The version of UE3 they built Tera on was from a time when Scaleform didn't have hardware acceleration support. And at this point they've modified UE3 so much that they'd practically have to rewrite the client to update it to a newer UE3 that does have a hardware-accelerated Scaleform.

    To put this in perspective... Mass Effect 2 uses Scaleform. As does Battlefield 3. But they both use a version that allows for hardware acceleration.
  • KrovocKrovoc ✭✭
    Didn't know that. Yeah, ME2 runs better in Wine and CrossOver now then it did when I played it in Windows 7. There are three spots in the game almost gaurenteed to crash your game. Two can't be avoided if you plan to finish the game, and the third is during the assisin girl's (Ayuki?) loyalty mission. In windows I just had to keep trying until I could get past those spots, but no such difficulties in Linux.

    I'll try again I guess. I'd much rather not play in Windows. When I'm in Windows I can't get any actual work done. It's the horrible UI combined with a lack of decent programming support (I'm use to the certain OS restricted tie-ins like pthreads).
  • KAJINOFEKAJINOFE ✭
    TsukasaKun wrote: »
    GPU: GT670M, proprietary driver
    CPU: i7 3630QM
    RAM: 16gb
    Misc: You'll want the staging version of Wine. The easiest way to get it is via PlayOnLinux (lets you grab pre-compiled binaries). After that, the launcher/game just works. Be sure to NOT use the Happy Cloud installer.. it's finicky even on Windows when it comes to getting data properly.

    Great, thanks for the specs. I'm assuming you enabled CSMT correct? How is your FPS in Highwatch?
  • VeryWowVeryWow ✭
    edited March 2017
    I'm also playing Tera on Linux. I'm using Manjaro on a Lenovo y510p (default specs, Nvidia GT755M, i7-4700MQ), using video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-bumblebee (not 340xx), 16GB RAM, wine 2.1 staging.

    You have to have a particular setup for Tera to work correctly; it's a pain, especially with WineHQ having twenty entries for Tera (nobody is playing the open beta anymore, guys!) but it's certainly possible to get it running. CSMT helps with FPS, but it causes significant throttling on my GPU (stays at 22FPS, but drops to 8FPS a few times every minute). Currently looking into Gallium Nine, but no luck preventing Tera from crashing immediately.

    Unfortunately, with bumblebee and disabling CSMT, I'm stuck at a consistent 18FPS. Sad!

    (This is according to Tera's FPS counter, by the way. I suspect that real-time framerates would be around 30 for my setup)
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