The latest version of Elite: Dangerous on Steam, Epic, or the standalone launcher.
Application Details:
| Version: | Latest |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.elitedangerous.com/ |
| Votes: | 1 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.0 |
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What works
Nothing works with vanilla Wine with no workarounds.
What does not
The game does not launch, including the launcher, and no error messages appear.
Workarounds
What was not tested
I did not test any workarounds because I wanted to test how it works with vanilla Wine.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Elite: Dangerous can work with Wine if you install DXVK and a few other libraries and workarounds manually. I was also able to get it to work with Proton. But it does not work with vanilla Wine.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 05 2021 | 6.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Alexander Schweickerdt | |
| Show | opensuse leap 15.1 | Aug 22 2019 | 4.11-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | kolAflash | |
| Current | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2019 | 4.9 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Aaron Franke | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 27 2018 | 4.0-rc3-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Wiborg | |
| Show | openSUSE Leap 15.0 | Dec 24 2018 | 4.0-rc3-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | kolAflash |
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by Josh R Raymond on Tuesday November 19th 2019, 18:44
by Aaron Franke on Wednesday November 20th 2019, 19:11
If you want to see the rating including such third-party tools, see ProtonDB instead.
by kolAflash on Sunday January 20th 2019, 4:48
Wine has been updated on my system to version: wine-staging-nine-4.0~rc6
And I also recently updated my DXVK to version 0.95, using: WINEARCH=win64 WINE=/usr/bin/wine64 winetricks --force dxvk
github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
Actually I already played a lot Elite Dangerous trough Wine in the last weeks. Sometimes little things don't work. But nothing which keeps me from playing and having fun.
Some more help might be found here: lutris.net/games/elite-dangerous/
by kolAflash on Thursday September 6th 2018, 16:15
lutris.net/games/elite-dangerous/
lutris.net/games/install/9190/view
My current status of workarounds to get the game to load up to 19%.
winetricks dotnet40
winetricks win7
winetricks dsound
winetricks dxvk-0.71/setup_dxvk.verb # from: github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Launcher works and installs the game (current version as of 2019-09-06 - probably version 3.2.1). But the game crashes on the loading screen at 19% (graphics totally hand - PC still accessible via SSH).
dmesg messages (GPU: Radeon RX 550)
[16753.860126] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: GPU fault detected: 147 0x05504802
[16753.860129] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_ADDR 0x0003EAAA
[16753.860130] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS 0x0C048002
[16753.860132] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: VM fault (0x02, vmid 6) at page 256682, read from 'TC0' (0x54433000) (72)
by EoD on Wednesday November 2nd 2016, 15:31
I required to work around the missing DX11 support, following the advice from: www.gearsongallium.com/?p=2875
Apart form that, I did not manage to get EDLaunch.exe to start.
by troy on Saturday January 28th 2017, 1:10
"winetricks vsm=3 psm=3 gsm=3 d3dcompiler_43 d3dx11_42 d3dx11_43" && "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.1COMPAT wine ./EliteDangerous64.exe"
managed to launch black screened window