Escape from Tarkov

What works

• Launching pre-installed game,
• navigating menus,
• changing graphic options,
• making screenshots,
• playing the game with issues (see below).

What does not

• Logging (game thinks it crashed; can be surpassed with -silent-crashes launch parameter).

Using default (D3D11/DirectX11) mode:

• players and NPC models (including yours) are totally invisible, including first person view. The only thing visible is a floating weapon,
• items in inventory have invisible icons,
• sometimes a set of black artifacts appear in the top area of the screen. It goes away after switching between a fullscreen and windowed a few times,
• menus are hard to interact with moues due to improper mouse clicking.

Using -force-d3d9:

• various shadow/lightning effects don't load or obstruct the view, a lot of textures does not load in maps, resulting in bright pink,
• some character and item models in menus do not load - the models in actual game work, though.

Using -force-vulkan:

• due to game's bugs: trying to inspect an item crash the game and the game suffers from heavy stuttering (both of the issues seems to appear under Windows as well).

Workarounds

64-bit launcher can be installed, but will not launch under Wine nor mono (due to incompatibility of .NET Framework 4.5.2, see previous reports), so the game have to be downloaded under a virtual machine and copied to host system after.

It is also possible to download the Client.0.2.67.302.zip file directly from game servers, but the link contain unique 8-4-4-4-12UUID and have to obtained by tracking packets sent from the launcher in guest OS, for exxample using Wireshark.

What was not tested

• Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This was the last version tested than me that worked on Wine, due to availability of DX9 and Vulkan renderers, the 0.4 version having it removed.