Astroneer

What works

• Installing, launching, general play (played about 3 hours solo)
• Multiplayer, joining through Steam Friend's list (played about 2 hours with a friend)

What does not

• Performance is not as good as Windows. This game doesn't have an OpenGL implementation, so you're stuck with DirectX.
• Occasional flickering on volume textures (e.g. clouds)
• Setting the 'Tether' key to any special character (like semicolon ';') - may be a bug in the game for Windows or something specific to xserver configuration.

Workarounds

In general, Unreal Engine 4 overrides for other games help, but a notable performance boost can be had by appending to drive_c/users/{user}/Local Settings/Application Data/Astro/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/Engine.ini:

[/Script/Engine.RenderSettings]
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=0

What was not tested

• Interplanetary travel
• Activating Teleportation/Alien nodes

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This is my setup.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Create a wineprefix for this game
#

DIR="$(dirname $(readlink -m ${0}))"

unset WINEARCH
export WINEPREFIX="${DIR}/.winebottle"
export WINEDEBUG=-all
export __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1

mkdir -p "${WINEPREFIX}"

# this is mostly https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19444
winetricks -q winxp
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\Steam.exe" /v "Version" /t "REG_SZ" /d "winxp64" /f
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\steamwebhelper.exe" /v "Version" /t "REG_SZ" /d "winxp64" /f

wget "https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/SteamSetup.exe"
wine SteamSetup.exe

More generally, follow the Steam AppDB entry (if you don't go with WindowsXP, networking code doesn't work):

https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...