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Recent bugs are now fixed and the game is suddenly very playable again. Visually, it's great, but the framerate should be better than atm.
Frame rates are not as good as they should be and worse than playing Dayz on Windows at the moment. They have been better on Linux previously, but not now. The game is playable, but the frame rates begins to slow and get a little choppy drop after a few hours of playing.
I haven't tested this, but I think the game needs to be run with Proton Experimental for best results.
Game runs well out of the box, no issues with anticheat.
The launcher was leaving an outline on my game window unless I minimized it, although this is likely a fedora or KDE issue. Once minimized, no further issues.
Game runs well out of the box, no issues with anticheat. Was able to join and play on community and official servers for hours with no issues.
Game is broken and unplayable at present.
Occassional minor artifacts (black lines) on menus.
Game currently crashes when alt-tabbing and locks-up the system. A hard boot using the power button is the only recovery option.
Some kind of GPU memory issue, where the framerate of the game may start to decrease when playing, ultimately reaching the point where it becomes unplayable and a restart is required.
Game will not load from the client menu. Instead, it locks-up, requiring a system hard reset. Game will load from the server menu, but the server browser does not move the to background, obscuring the gameplay. To fix this, one has to alt-tab, but this presently causes the game and entire system to completely lockup, requiring a hard reset. In other words, the game is unplayable at present.
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 mangohud game-performance %command%
Crashing about 10-30 seconds after spawning in
The game broke after update to 1.28. Switching to different versions or editions of Proton does not work. Neither does any other fix that has worked in the 4 years I've been playing this game. Issue reported to the developer, but the developer won't support Linux. I'm very disappointed about this..
I tried running the game on Steam Deck and it worked fine, so don't know what kind of magic sauce the Deck is using...
The game starts up fine, but after around 20 seconds of playing the game freezes permanently. It's currently completely unplayable.
Same issue occured regardless of whether Battleye was enabled or disabled in the launcher.
DayZ 1.28 seems to ship an updated BattlEye client performing calls to system libraries (bcrypt.dll) causing full freezes, game is broken.
Freezing after 15 seconds of actual gameplay
Developer refused to fix on issue tracker.
Launcher window shadow is visible while playing
Micro freezes are noticed
The game used to run fine. But as of this new update I can't play on a single server modded or unmodded, official or unofficial.
Froze, then crashed after loading into an Official or unOfficial Server.
Wait for the next update for a fix.
Works flawlessly, modding works, was able to connect and player servers such as Karmakrew Chernarus, Cold as F**K, official servers, etc
Game works amazingly, gained an FPS boost on DayZ of around 40 FPS with the same hardware on Arch, while Windows suffered.
Wasn't so hard to boot up
Note : If the game is just quitting on launch, MAKE SURE YOU'RE RUNNING DayZ CLIENT, not the other one, on a simple gameplay, the game seemed to be completely fine for me.
gamemoderun DXVK_ASYNC=1 LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_FRAME_RATE=120 %command%
The game runs significantly worse than on Windows and there is a VRAM memory leak that will make you restart the game during your sessions.
VRAM leak that leads to 0-2 fps in-game
DayZ is really not a great experience on Linux. Not only the FPS are significantly worse compared to Windows, the VRAM leak will lead to some very frustrating moments where you are forced to restart the game while in action, while driving a car, etc. How often you have to restart will depend on the amount of VRAM you have and what your are doing in-game. I have 10 GB VRAM and while driving a car around Chernarus, I had to restart every ~30 minutes or so, which is unnaceptable.
LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
had to use launch options and that GE to get the launcher to load
Pretty good experience, runs like on Windows. There is a memory leak though and 5 hours of playing filled up my 24GB VRAM buffer. Restart.
Sometimes the trays would be visible. Had to switch fullscreen on and off a few times to fix.
Memory leak (VRAM and RAM)
It's definetely still enjoyable to play. Was stable after i tinkered with it, changed proton version and added launch parameters
gamemoderun LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
Slightly jagged frames, game was running high fps but seemed stuttery. Fixed with Proton 9.0-4 & launch parameters.
If experiencing jagged frames, simply change proton version to 9.0-4 and add launch parameters. This should fix that specific issue..
Works well, even with mods!
If you don't minimise the launcher after launching the game a border will be visible.
Settings set in launcher seem to not save unless you set them, close the launcher, and then start it again.
Occasionally when leaving or rejoining a server the game will crash.
Launcher freezes if the game crashes, have to fully restart through steam.
There used to be some problems with loading mods from workshop, but these seem to have been solved.
MANGOHUD=1 %command%
The only minor issue is - for some reason - I have to close the server browser after joining a server, because the outline of the window itself "ghosts" onto the game somehow. This is a very small issue, doesn't really bother me, the server browser doesn't need to stay open anyway once you're in a server.
gamemoderun %command% -name=
VRAM Leak
A VRAM leak. I do not know why and how this happens, as well as what I can do about it, but it happens. DayZ uses all 8 Gb of RAM and 8 Gb and does not clean it in any way. This causes a sharp drop in FPS when it completely clogs up the VRAM. He scores VRAM in 1 hour of play, approximately. In general, you can play, I like it, but the VRAM leak is annoying and prevents you from fully enjoying the game.
%command% -nolauncher -nosplash -skipintro
Works amazing in FreeBSD. 2025 is the year of FreeBSD gaming!
Not working
The DayZ launcher is working, but when i press "play" in the launcher or try to join a server, the game doesn't lauch. I tried many launch options seen here and many Proton versions.
Performs much better than on Windows (AMD GPUs), mods are super easy to set up with DZGUI
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 MANGOHUD=1 ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 game-performance %command%
Mouse 3 doesn't work for some reason
The GPU is properly utilized here, whereas in Windows the moment you enter a sizeable city the usage takes a noise dive. Super easy to set up everything, only issue I've had is the game doesn't recognize the M3 input of my mouse, I've tried in other DXVK games and it works there.
Runs great OOTB
Starts and runs great, Only played on official servers so can't comment on mods.
Launcher leaves a box outline in game, so I turned the launcher off.
In short, as the game runs, probably loading mesh and similar data, occupies a lot of VRAM, never completely freeing it. I arrive in having the full VRAM occupied and that decreased the fps, probably halving it, leading to input lag and such. From the sensors, I see 6056/6144MB of VRAM used continuously.
VRAM memory leak bug impacts the fps after some minutes of playing.
There is an initial setup tinkering, afterwards runs flawlessly. Must set launch options, set specific watched mod folder in the launcher.
-name="your name" -noSplash -skipintro -noPause -world=empty
In the DayZ Server Launcher, change watched mods folder to:
Z:\home\yourusername.local\share\Steam\steamapps\workshop
Border of DayZ Launcher visible, must be minimized.
sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576 could be needed. The tutorial I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TmPvG2HvPk
This game will run fine with pretty much any modern proton enabled, as long as you don't want to play with mods.
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
I should be able to run it on ultra settings with no issues but I only get 60FPS on medium settings at 4k.
In order to get the launcher to properly identify mods, I adjusted the proton prefix to mimic a windows install. I did this by updating the registry, adding alll folders (documents, saved games, photos, etc.), and installing needed dependencies. Chat GPT helped me do this and now the game runs normally with mods through the launcher. No script required. I have the instructions linked here for anyone who wants to try it. https://github.com/Baghdaddy27/dayzonlinux/blob/main/instructions
No because there may be problems with fps drops when moving the mouse even in the menu which is why it is not an "out of the box" experience
gamemoderun mangohud DXVK_ASYNC=1 LD_PRELOAD="" %command%
After about 30 minutes of play when moving the mouse there is a noticeable drop in fps from 150 to 40-50 and an increase in frametime. LD_PRELOAD="" and DXVK_ASYNC=1 apparently solves this problem
The game works great in my case even better than on the most popular system in the world starting with "W" and ending with "W$". Just download and play
use other launcher, like DZGUI to play on moded server. it loads mods automatic and connect to server
WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=8:0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14 gamemoderun mangohud %command%
use other launcher, like DZGUI to play on moded server. it loads mods automatic and connect to server. launchoption in steam is to only run game on physical cores
only the Bohemia typical issues
Most Proton versions seem to work just fine out of the box.
gamemoderun LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command% -noSplash -skipintro -noPause -world=empty
I just put the command and there were no more slowdowns sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=1048576
I'm not sure if my FPS is lower or higher than when I played it on Windows since I didn't do objective tests like that, but it feels just as good.
Modded servers were not working. Unsubsribed from all modds on steam workshop which had been previously subscribed too when I was on windows. Then resubscribed to mods and redownloaded and have had no issues since.
Have to minimise launcher or borders are visable ingame
If you dont play modded servers it works out of the box. I find i have better fps under linux
