Linux Port – Feedback, Known Issues, and FAQ

aivora · Oct 21, 2025

Hello, thank you everyone for chiming in on the autosave issue, we localized the problem and fixed it for next release. Please wait for the fix and until then you should be able to use one of the workarounds the community managed to come with.

alexeysvrv · Oct 21, 2025

aivora said: ↑

Hello, thank you everyone for chiming in on the autosave issue, we localized the problem and fixed it for next release. Please wait for the fix and until then you should be able to use one of the workarounds the community managed to come with.
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Thank you! Will there be a fix for problems with Lua and the rest of the errors described above?

Technological · Oct 21, 2025

I'm noticing some weird flickering on reflective surfaces, and it seems to happen when the vehicle's lights turn on and off. It also gets worse if dynamic reflections are turned on. I tried using Vulkan on Windows 10, but I did not see the issue there. I see "Minor graphical issues may occur" listed in the known issues list, so I assume that's what this is considered? Running Linux Mint 22.2 with a 4060, using driver version 580.95.05.

pawelek von sttetin · Oct 21, 2025

Technological said: ↑

I'm noticing some weird flickering on reflective surfaces, and it seems to happen when the vehicle's lights turn on and off. It also gets worse if dynamic reflections are turned on. I tried using Vulkan on Windows 10, but I did not see the issue there. I see "Minor graphical issues may occur" listed in the known issues list, so I assume that's what this is considered? Running Linux Mint 22.2 with a 4060, using driver version 580.95.05.
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tried changing dynamic reflecion update rate up or down?

Technological · Oct 21, 2025

pawelek von sttetin said: ↑

tried changing dynamic reflecion update rate up or down?
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Yeah, I tried that. Made no difference. Also tried different graphics presets, same thing.

pawelek von sttetin · Oct 22, 2025

Technological said: ↑

Yeah, I tried that. Made no difference. Also tried different graphics presets, same thing.
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especially check if anti aliasing does the problem
ive seen it glichning on ym machine few times in difrent games

Bad Caxeira · Oct 22, 2025

Technological said: ↑

I'm noticing some weird flickering on reflective surfaces, and it seems to happen when the vehicle's lights turn on and off. It also gets worse if dynamic reflections are turned on. I tried using Vulkan on Windows 10, but I did not see the issue there. I see "Minor graphical issues may occur" listed in the known issues list, so I assume that's what this is considered? Running Linux Mint 22.2 with a 4060, using driver version 580.95.05.
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I'm having the same issue. Just wanted to +1 this issue so the devs can be aware.

I also noticed your glasses flicker. Sometimes, my dynamic mirrors show the car reflection fading in and out, very quickly.

C4crazy11 · Oct 24, 2025

finally a way to play it on ps4!!!

Arild · Oct 30, 2025

Bad Caxeira said: ↑

I'm having an issue that manifested out of nowhere, after smooth playing for days. Here's the log, I hope it helps. Attached is a screenshot depicting what happens.

Error is triggered by me making any change to a vehicle. Any. Even license plates design triggers it. Car keeps floating above the ground and locks up completely, no ignition, no horn, no lights, no nothing. I can spawn another car and drive it fine, until I try to modify it also, then the same thing happens, but there's a 50/50 change the second car's meshes get absolutely messed up. Can't remove any car, and more inputs crash the game, complete with the crash report window.

Specs attached in my fastfetch screencap. Running the binary via Steam with these launch properties: mangohud SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./BinLinux/BeamNG.drive.x64 %command%

What I tried:

Clearing cache (by deleting "temp" folder): Error persists.

Renaming mod folder so no mod loads: No error.

Launching the binary in safe mode: No error.

Haven't tried the Proton version though.

UPDATE & SOLVED (?): I deleted the latest mods I've downloaded: Isola Rocciosa and Tyres Thermal and Wear. Error stopped.
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I seem to hit this bug for several BeamMP servers that uses this mod. Anything from Beamapex/Beamsharp and other race/trackday servers. Mod name "VB#-Tyrewear" from server Mod list.
Could be this one which has not been updated since 0.31 https://www.beamng.com/resources/luuks-tyre-thermals-and-wear-mod.26947/updates .
Since the servers are quite active this probably works for Windows and Proton.

Bad Caxeira · Oct 30, 2025

Arild said: ↑

I seem to hit this bug for several BeamMP servers that uses this mod. Anything from Beamapex/Beamsharp and other race/trackday servers. Mod name "VB#-Tyrewear" from server Mod list.
Could be this one which has not been updated since 0.31 https://www.beamng.com/resources/luuks-tyre-thermals-and-wear-mod.26947/updates .
Since the servers are quite active this probably works for Windows and Proton.
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Most likely it was this, but since I removed it, I never had the issue again.

stenyak · Nov 1, 2025

Technological said: ↑

So it seems like the frequency chosen automatically is too high for the wheel? I tried manually changing the frequency from its auto value (which I think is 400Hz) to 150Hz - 200Hz, and that pretty much completely eliminated the full queue. Not sure if this is an issue with the game or the os, but I thought I would mention it.
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The frequency is guessed, by sending a large burst of FFB updates to the drivers, and measuring how long they take to be consumed. This happens each time FFB gets initialized in-game.

With that information, we throttle down the update rate very substantially, to be on the safe side, and run with that.

It's possible that this automatic guessing system doesn't work with those drivers, because they return instantaneously even though they didn't really fully process our FFB request.

So yeah, manually picking a more appropriate rate is the solution here.

Arild · Nov 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM

Bad Caxeira said: ↑

Most likely it was this, but since I removed it, I never had the issue again.
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So.. It was not the mod mentioned that caused the freeze, but some unidentified trash/config in current/settings/* .
I did not have the patience to identify exactly what since BeamMP servers downloads a ton of mods where some of them uses settings/ for config as well.
As you pointed out, always try safe mode if disabling mods or clearing cache does not work...

Pessima lover aka blob · Nov 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Plz fix traffic in the Linux port for the next update atleast, it crashes my system lol.

Blenux · Nov 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM

Pessima lover aka blob said: ↑

Plz fix traffic in the Linux port for the next update atleast, it crashes my system lol.
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Some more information with this may help (system specs, crash log), I run the traffic from time to time myself on the Linux port and have no issue?

pawelek von sttetin · Nov 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Pessima lover aka blob said: ↑

Plz fix traffic in the Linux port for the next update atleast, it crashes my system lol.
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if u have parked vehicles set to other than auto amount change it back

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