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I have no sound on native linux binary, but have it on proton version.

OS ~ Arch Linux x86_64
KER ~ Linux 6.14.4-arch1-2
PKG ~ 1045 (pacman)
SH ~ zsh 5.9
TER ~ st 0.8.4
WM ~ dwm (X11)

pactl list short sinks
56 alsa_output.pci-0000_07_00.4.analog-stereo PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED
68 alsa_output.pci-0000_05_00.1.hdmi-stereo PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED

 

Does this happen on all applications or just BeamNG?
Does it happen after a restart? (incase you updated arch??)
Try need to go into alsamixer and unmute it perhaps (press F6 to change sound card etc) ?

 

I can't get 0.35 to open at all.

Gentoo
Kernel 6.14.5
Mesa 25.0.5
Hyprland 0.48.1
nVidia Quadro T2000 card with official nvidia drivers 570.144

It always exits with an invalid_pointer error. This is on laptop with integrated Intel graphics. I get the same error if I try and run it using Intel graphics instead of nvidia.

 

Hi,
is it possible to change the location of the user files folder?
Instead of ~/.local/share/BeamNG.drive/ I would like to specify another location.
Thanks

 

Good day!
I'm on Linux Mint 22.1, and the game works just fine, except..
It only roads the infinite grid map, smallgrid
Anything else will make the game freeze, and have to be forcefully closed.
The windows ver, with directx or vulkan does not do this
If any assistance could be provided, I would be very thankful
Thank you!

 

Change UserPath in startup.ini. Avoid trailing slashes

 

How long did you wait, and what are you running it on (M.2, SSD, HDD?), it can take a little while at first depending on hardware, running the game via terminal will tell what's its doing etc.

 

I'm here on Arch and having the same "invalid_pointer" crash that Sylence and hummer010 have reported. The former mentioned in his post that some people had better luck with environment variables, but I haven't been able to find any. Any leads on fixing this crash? Beam was working with no issues 2 weeks ago max. Have tried downgrading to no avail

6.14.10-arch1-1
ryzen5 7235HS + nvidia RTX3050 laptop 6gb

 

packing mods is fraught with peril in linux. I have started zipping my own mods currently, but it was just more convenient to use the in game functions

 

Running on SSD! and still, its infinite
I'll try running through terminal and tell you how it goes! praying I don't forget heh

 

no visible difference to me

updated versions:
Kernel 6.14.10-arch1-1
NVIDIA driver 575.57.08

The environment variables I referred to were "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland" and "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11".

 

I had already nuked my install and user folder and reinstalled the game, so I don't have game-settings.cs. I can say the game still crashes for me. the 0.35 folder gets made but it is incomplete

kernel 6.15.1-arch1-2 + nvidia 575.57.08

 

Same for me, no such file.
After removing the entire ~/.local/share/BeamNG.drive folder the result is the same.

 

Im on a steam deck (that i also use as my daily driver so there is a bunch of other random apps + usb hub with hdmi out that i am using + keyboard and mouse) and in desktop mode, launching the linux binary outside of steam (double clicking in dolphin or running in konsole) it runs fine, except that i have to manually re-enable them even if they were already enabled to get them to load. But when i try to run it through steam as a non-steam game it just doesn't start. I can see one beamng process in system monitor, using up no cpu and about 210 mb of memory. Running it through the original steam page by setting the launch options to './BinLinux/BeamNG.drive.x64 %command%' (which ive heard on the internet is supposed to launch the linux executable instead of proton->windows exe) launches the game but it immediatley crashes. looking at the logs, they show this at the end:

124.42137|E|update| Timeout on CefTexture renderer: mRendererTimeout 120.021 > 120.000
124.42140|E|OnRenderProcessTerminated| CEF client ID: "MainGEUI"
TerminationStatus: -2
Description: Timeout in CefTexture::update()
124.42147|E|fatalSubprocessError| CefManager::fatalSubprocessError, reason: CEF client ID: "MainGEUI"
TerminationStatus: -2
Description: Timeout in CefTexture::update()​

Ive already deleted my userfolder and it still crashed under steam
if i need to provide anything else i probobaly can

 

I read online more and found that whenever you put the %command% it runs whatever executable you put in the launch options, and I was able to confirm that because using '/bin/pavucontrol # %command%' it launched pavucontrol so the './BinLinux/BeamNG.drive.x64 # %command%' definetly launched the Linux version. That and there was no launcher when trying the Linux version, and the tilebar saying it's using vulkan. So the steam launch options does work but the game crashes when doing so and only sometimes launches as a non steam game before crashing and other times not at all

 

Also one question, is there anyway to use 1440p res on my 1080p monitor? I've been using windows and I use something called AMD VSR (basically you choose a higher res than your display), I need it cuz I want to minimize the cpu bottlenecks i have in the game and it does fix some anti aliasing issues i have with the game, I've been trying to switch to linux for the second time now coming back to windows so i really want some help with this, thanks!

 

okay I've tried my sim rig with native beamng in mint now, most of it works, just not my fanatec clubsport V3 pedals still (they are directly connected via usb to my PC, not going through my wheel base, which is moza). During trouble shooting, I installed boxflat, then this - https://github.com/gotzl/hid-fanatecff , restarted a few times, didn't work. Then I tried launching native beamng with "env SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=0x0eb7:0x183b" added to the desktop shortcut, and it still didn't see it. I finally launched in proton, and it sees works over there.

Because of the order I did things, I don't know what was making a difference or not, but I'd like it to work in native anyway. Am I doing something wrong, or will it never work in native because of the no buttons thing?