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Change map objects quality to medium, anything higher could drop frames
Games crashes when zooming out the map on vulkan renderer, use DX11 instead.
I needed to increase my swap size to prevent crashes. swapon --show shows 10GB swap usage in the late game
Artifacts on the home screen
Occasionally has short hangs when opening menus
Had to use Compatibility Mode "Legacy Runtime 1.0”
Launcher fails to launch.
Tried during free-weekend.
For some reason (wayland?) the chrome-based paradox launcher either fails install or launch.
Previous versions of the launcher (for other paradox titles) seemed to work.
Running the game directly via binaries/victoria3 works fine.
Maybe adding another launcher to launch the launcher is the solution? /s
gamemoderun %command%
Needed to increase swap space to 16 gb. After doing that it ran with only slight performance issues.
On a system using pipewire, unable to pick the audio output device or change volume at the OS level. I installed the pipewire-alsa package. More solutions mentioned in this Paradox forum post.
On my (powerful) system I didn't notice any performance issues that others mentioned.
The game works decently after adding 8gb of swap, years go by a bit slow but its enjoyable as a portable variant
lower fps to 30, anything above is redundant
game crashes on saving due to lack of ram without additional swap/zram (at least 4gb)
game crashes due to lack of ram without additonal swap/zram (at least 4gb)
Native seems to have memory leaks and crash the whole system, other Proton versions have frequent crashes.
gamemoderun %command%
Flag sometimes dissapears
Proton GE with the "gamemoderun %command%" launch option seems to work perfectly for now.
The native version has a memory leak, it will fill the ram and crash when no more ram is avaliable
Using proton, the game run perfectly. Could play with mods in Singleplayer but could not connect to a modded game in multiplayer (vanilla worked fine)
Not launching at all
Proton experimental and Proton 9.0-2
This game should run native, but it doesn't even launch. I even tried Proton, but it didn't work either.
Currently, the game does not start when running on Wayland. Had to switch to X11 in order to get it working.
The game sometimes crashes inexplicably. Not more often than that falling back on an autosave works.
Sometimes pathing of armies gets weird and requires reloading a game. Difficult to determine whether this is caused by running the linux version or inherent to the game.
Currently, the game crashes during initial load when running Wayland.
Tried the default, then experimental then native (sniper) 3.0 and 1.0.
If i play youtube on second monitor and victoria on main. When game would crush the audio would repeat the same sound for 3-4 times then stop completly
Some textures load slowly
When game is about to close, mouse works slowly then freez completly
Save games do not sync between devices or run versions
After playing for half an hour the game just freez. After some time eighter closes itself or blocks the entire PC. It's happens generally on autosaves and on popups.
The new update 1.7 has borked the game with crashes so frequent it becomes unplayable
Just before a crash audio would loop or skip
Artifacts on title screen
Very low FPS when not zoomed all the way in
Frequent hangs and crashes to the point of being unplayable
Linux only just works. Proton either won't open or will immediatly crash on game start.
The native version has crashing issues, so i attempted proton and it ended up being even worse.
Consistently crashes extremely often in native and is unplayable entirely in proton
Lag spikes when scrolling in and out of the map on first launch
I haven't tried any advanced tinkering methods like messing with files, but the game is very unstable on native and doesn't play at all in proton. I don't know where to start with configs personally, and i really hope this gets fixed soon considering paradox usually is good with linux support
The native Linux version does not launch at all for me. Installing the game with forced Proton Experimental made it work with no issues.
For me, game will not get past launch screen when launched from KDE Plasma Wayland. Works flawlessly when launched from i3 x11. No idea why.
Does work with proton on wayland with some slight performance hitches when zooming in and out.
1.7 Broke Linux Play
1.7 update broke play on Ubuntu. Previously, was able to play (native) and aside from occasional lag spikes / FPS drops, the game worked ok.
Post SoI and 1.7, native drops to 3 or less FPS within the first game week and crashes on first autosave; Proton Experimental/GE and other versions of Proton result in a crash to desktop before a country can even be selected in the New Game menu.
TL;DR - Latest version not working presently.
Game works fine running native, but scrolling in and out of the map is a bit laggy and it runs slower than on Proton. Using proton fixes the scrolling issue and makes it a bit more snappy in general.
Extra mouse buttons do not work
Crashes if interacting with anything else during startup, stable after that
Works fine on native, had more problems with proton
Works fine Natively but runs better with proton.
Don't even try native.
After I had issues with flickering and disappearing UI in nativ and reading about problems with Proton, I tried the 9.0 beta and it just worked.
Perfectly playable
Large FPS drop when zoomed into map
Crash roughly every two hours or so
Runs fine with no tinkering. Significant FPS drop when map is zoomed in, but this is hardly necessary to play as most people will want to be far zoomed out anyway given the type of game. Crashes every two or so hours, but this happens to me on Windows as well.
Game runs ok. Stability issues.
Fairly unstable, error logs refer to unset variables and so on.
Ensure that vulkan-radeon is installed for AMD users. The game crashes before even launching without the correct vulkan driver.
Native is preferred (even for 1.5 beta), would not recommend proton
For some reason, the proton versions either 8 or experimental, have a weird zoom stutter to where it's unbearable if you are zoomed into the map. The native version does not have this and is exceptionally smooth, essentially WAD. There is one slight problem. The Paradox Launcher seems to crash repeatedly after opening for a few seconds on native, so be sure to hit your mod list quickly and/or the play button. This is not an issue when using Proton.
Native version works perfectly
Be sure to install pipewire-alsa to get sound to work if using pipewire.
