[2020] Yet another report of the game not working on Linux/Steam

Thanks for your post; I’ve been investigating this.

Before I say anything else I do need to be clear that we do not support running non-Linux clients on Linux. We only support running Last Epoch’s Linux client - and, technically, only on Ubuntu at that - and so Glorious Eggroll’s patches of Valve’s Proton patches of WINE on an unsupported distro do fall outside of the scope of the support we provide.

One of the first things I did after reading your post was switch from one of our internal test branches on Steam back to the latest publicly available release, and then run it on Kubuntu;

As we can see from the above video, the game client can currently be slow to initially open - this is a known issue which we are actively working on - however after a short period of time passes, the game opens without issue. The video has not been modified in any way.

Having determined that the game does run on a supported configurations I then moved to see if I could reproduce your report of the game using approximately 12 GB of RAM.

I used the top command, and this was the output I received;

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As we can see, the game is using approximately 5 GB of RAM, which is significantly less than the usage you report seeing on Manjaro. I notice the game’s virtual memory is similar to the RAM utilization you mention. Is it possible you may have looked at the wrong figure?

To be clear, the amount of physical RAM allocated to the process is reported in the RES column. The VIRT column combines physical RAM usage with the GPU’s VRAM, on-disk shared libraries, and other information. This can differ substantially from the amount of system memory in use, as the above screenshot demonstrates.

Having determined that the game runs - and does not use an inordinate amount of RAM - on an officially supported distro, I then tested the game on Manjaro in a bid to determine what could be causing the issues you describe. Again, I went with KDE due to personal preference.

Below is a recording of me launching the game on Manjaro;

Overall, this is very similar to the experience I had on Kubuntu - the game can be slow to start, but if left for a moment it will open and should then run without issue.

If you are curious about the system I performed this testing on, its specifications are;

• Kubuntu 19.10, Manjaro w/ kernel 5.3.18-1-MANJARO
• AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
• 32 GB of RAM
• Sapphire Pulse Vega 56