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Loads to show upper left quadrant. 99% unresponsive.
Escape seems to change the menu or whatever is being displayed (3/4 of which is hidden). Otherwise 1 of 4 lights on; nobody home. Also had to drop down to Proton 5.0-10 to get even that far.
Didn't try on-line or coop. Once single-player ran and fps was smoothed out, the game was amazing.
98% of the time I could switch to another virtual desktop and back. No problem. 2% the display was hung on return. Not a huge problem.
I wish my USB game controller would have worked but it wasn't detected even though it showed up fine in lsusb. This was more than just preference - the fishing seemed to me to be pretty borked with a mouse. That's a general problem reported on that other OS too, but without being able to get a controller recognized, that was tedious. Still keyboard/mouse is fine for normal FPS action.
I played FC3 perfectly on this same system, but FC5 was very choppy. I tried reducing some settings and maybe that helped - can't say for sure. What I can say is that while I had framerate problems to start, they went away and the game can play smoothly on a 4k screen for me.
The installation was insane. I spent 81 minutes according to Steam "in game" before it ever started. This is Ubisoft madness and it can be a huge pain. The biggest problem was that the Ubisoft launcher kept asking for the product key. Well, this is Steam and there is no product key. Here's what worked for me - Log out of Steam! When I relogged in, relaunched, (after the install had been previously done), then finally it ran. And from then on it launched perfectly well.
Most important tip I learned: If it asks you for a product key, quit out of the game and out of Steam. Restart Steam, restart the game, and it should be ok.
Can not get past Ubisoft Connect
Played FC 1 through 5 and Primal and Blood Dragon and every time the Uplay hassle is worse than the worst boss fight. But for Far Cry 6, nothing I can think of trying is working. I did the normal things like try all the Proton versions. I also tried to create a standalone Steam entry from the UbisoftConnectInstaller.exe - and that actually launched and I could log in and see my Ubisoft games including FC6. I clicked on "Download" from the Ubisoft Connect interface and it says something quickly about using the version installed by Steam - ya ! go for it! - and it goes back to the original error I get just running it from Steam: Unable to detect Ubisoft Connect installation. Please make sure Ubisoft Connect is installed. Remember, I'm having this message generated by running something from Ubisoft Connect. So I'm out of ideas. How can a company that can create games that are quite sophisticated be so obtuse with their brittle and aggravating launcher?
Used to work fine but Uplay killed it.
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It's not unusual with Ubisoft games for me to spend an hour trying to get it past the Uplay launcher when running through proton on Linux. There's no sanity to it. Sometimes you restart Steam. Sometimes you just relaunch the game 5 times. Sometimes you log into Uplay like it tells you to. Sometimes you need to turn off the Steam overlay. Sometimes you add an option like -offline and sometimes that doesn't do anything.
I was running FCPrimal and put 15 hours into running perfectly well but then I moved and in my new location the game won't launch getting hung up with the uplay launcher. I tried everything I could think of (all the versions of Proton, reinstalling, logging in to uplay in different ways, the -offline option, Steam overlay off, etc). Currently the error I get from the uplay launcher is "Connection lost - A Ubisoft service is currently unavailable. Please try again later." Not terribly helpful when I can log in just fine from a browser. And that's a dead end. I wish there were better more systematic and informative troubleshooting recommendations somewhere for this uplay launcher issue which has burned me in some way on pretty much every ubisoft game.
It's a fine game and runs fine and is as expected - _once you get past the uplay madness_!
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The Ubisoft Uplay madness. It required me to change my network MTU to 1452. Before I did that it said it couldn't connect, but just before saying that it made me log in and part of that process was sending me an email - so I know it connected to something!
It's not unusual with Ubisoft games for me to spend an hour trying to get it past the Uplay launcher when running through proton on Linux. There's no sanity to it. Sometimes you restart Steam. Sometimes you just relaunch the game 5 times. Sometimes you log into Uplay like it tells you to. Sometimes you need to turn off the Steam overlay. Sometimes you add an option like -offline and sometimes that doesn't do anything.
I was running FCPrimal and put 15 hours into running perfectly well but then I moved and in my new location the game won't launch getting hung up with the uplay launcher. I tried everything I could think of (all the versions of Proton, reinstalling, logging in to uplay in different ways, the -offline option, Steam overlay off, etc). Currently the error I get from the uplay launcher is "Connection lost - A Ubisoft service is currently unavailable. Please try again later." Not terribly helpful when I can log in just fine from a browser. Not only that but they make you log in to uplay and that requires an email verification code; since I received that, I'm sure connectivity to Ubisoft is not my problem. And I was at a dead end for a long time.
I finally had the bright idea to update my system - it wasn't that far out of date but there was some nvidia* packages and that was probably important. Then to get past the putative inability to connect, I changed my MTU for the interface to 1452 (got that strangely particular value somewhere on a forum) using this command:
sudo ip link set dev enp4s0 mtu 1452
And finally it started and I could resume my game.
I really wish there were better more systematic and informative troubleshooting recommendations somewhere for this uplay launcher issue which has burned me in some way on pretty much every ubisoft game. But if you can get past that, these games run great on proton.
Excellent if you can make it past the brutal prologue - past the Uplay boss fight and into the game proper!
Uplay is bonkers. I had to install several times and try several different proton versions. Probably none of that mattered. Just being persistent seemed to do the trick to get past the Uplay related aborts. Maybe also turning off the Uplay overlay (if you're lucky enough to get that far). So verdict is FC3=good, Valve=good, Linux=good, Ubisoft=bad.
Got a black screen on launch until I added the launch options. Then it fired right up and worked great.
/dxadapter=0 /borderless=0 /dx11
A little tweaking, sure. But at least it's not Ubisoft!
