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complex-teal
Fortnite almost works
The game launches perfectly, and I can get into a game. The game suffers from freezing and crashing though, with XID 109 errors in dmesg and is likely related to the graphics drivers (NVIDIA 535). One time I was kicked from LEGO Fortnite due to connection issues possibly caused by a firewall, but it might still be the anticheat. There has been no official statement for a while and I was surprised the game launched at all. Any further information?
31 Replies
complex-tealOP•2y ago
I got an error.
complex-tealOP•2y ago
This seems to be a shader compilation issue.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
fortnite only works in windows
complex-tealOP•2y ago
Well, now that I installed the vkd3d_compiler dlls or which those are Fortnite crashed with a real message telling me it crashed and that they're working on it.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
anti cheat will prevent you from playing. period. so you are wasting your time
complex-tealOP•2y ago
I know it only really works on Windows. But I hope there could be some way to get it working on Linux.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
you cant
complex-tealOP•2y ago
Why is it so hard to get in contact with Epic and try to talk with them about this? I genuinely think it's worth supporting Linux at least by letting the game run.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
why would they do that work
it brings them nothing
and they have no desire
linux market share isnt worth the time, from a business stand point
complex-tealOP•2y ago
It is one toggle on their side.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
yep, but they have to test it and officially provide EGS to linux
so they wont
complex-tealOP•2y ago
They can say that they won't help with Linux specific issues. Their anticheat already works on Linux. It just hasn't been enabled in this game. I'm sorry if I'm annoying.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
right but there's no financial gain in doing so othrewise they would hvae done it
they wont do it unless egs supports linux, im 100% sure of that
the financial gain is: selling stuff for fortnite, and they cant do that unless egs is on linux, and to do that and enable and test fortnite for linux is not a trivial task
complex-tealOP•2y ago
At least we can see that the Linux gaming market is somewhat growing. It's already bigger than on MacOS, if I'm not mistaken.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
2% is not a lot
(similarly why they dont really support mac either anymore :P)
the cost to support either isnt worth the money gained
complex-tealOP•2y ago
*3%
optimistic-gold•2y ago
linux marketshare is around 2% according to steam hardware reports, but.. that kinda stuff is not super accurate
complex-tealOP•2y ago
When it comes to purchasing games, that has worked on Heroic for ages. In-game purchases? I don't know whether that works with EOS overlay or in any way so far.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
yes it works in heroic, but heroic isnt epic's platform
heroic doesnt factor into epic's choices
complex-tealOP•2y ago
I don't exactly know whether it "belongs" to Epic, but Fall Guys works and has their anticheat enabled. Even though they didn't have any official statement on this.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
thats because they did before epic bought them, iirc, like rocket league
anyway there's really nothing you can do
its up to epic to do it and they likely wont
complex-tealOP•2y ago
Epic games could still change those things.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
they could
its highly unlikely
the point is they have to do it
they wont
complex-tealOP•2y ago
I mean they could remove support for the other games as well.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
yep
since they own easy anti cheat, they could also just.. remove it from there too
complex-tealOP•2y ago
We can just hope for Epic Games to support Linux. It would push the Linux desktop and Linux gaming. People would be more likely to switch and have a better desktop experience and often better performance as a result, because this game can be one of the main factors for not doing the switch.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
epic has no interest in linux
there's lots of documented cases of the ceo saying as much
so good luck with that
there are tons of better games out there anyway (and tons of other reasons to switch)
and they mostly all work fine
exotic-emerald•2y ago
one comment on the market share stuff: epic knows that if a linux gamer really really wants to play fortnite, they will just install windows anyway cause they have no other choice right now
so epic has no reason to support linux, even if you have 2-3% market share on linux, only a small % of that is really fornite players, and a smaller % is fornite players willing to spend money in game, and most of them probably already play fortnite on windows anyway
it's not just one toggle
yes, enabling the support is one toggle, but then you need to invest resources on:
- making epic work on linux (are you going to tell your users to use another launcher where you don't have control over? or use wine?)
- test that the game actually fully work on linux
- make sure it works on different distros (supporting just the steam-deck would be enough for example)
- support users having problems (if an error happens, is it fornite or wine? you need people to debug that)
- more things I probably don't imagine
but if you enable the anticheat it means you support that use case
well, the reports are going to end up on them, even if you don't support linux you have to invest resources to address those reports and say
we don't support linux
right, but also not just the toggle
I'm sure there's more to it, even if you don't officially support linux there are things you'll have to do once you enable thatuseful-bronze•2y ago
agree on the “linux isn’t necessary” part there aren’t going to be more than 10k people playing on Linux
but what makes me mad is removing MacOS support because apple has always been cooperative with apple before the free Fortnite thing and even appeared in apple events
complex-tealOP•2y ago
Generally, it would be hard to unofficially support the game by lettings players try to run it with translation tools and deal with issues themselves. They could do it like Roblox. Essentially enable anticheat and give the "make it work well" part to the community that wants to play it. I don't even think there would be an issue with cheaters. Even if that happened, those cheats would have to be developed first. But then one can say that they should just implement a good server-side anticheat, because users already find ways to circumvent the client-side anticheat anyways. There's plenty of different ways in which at least making it possible to be played would be beneficial to the players. It's hard to get that into their heads though. Especially in the head of Tim Sweeney.
optimistic-gold•2y ago
This all the way. There's no point for epic to do anything unless its to open a new revenue source
supporting linux isnt worth the cost.
tbh the problem here is capitalism.. its the primary reason you cant have nice things in games 😛