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: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.1 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
I run this using Heroic Launcher.
Everything seems to work great. Have put in a number of hours now and no issues.
Third party apps like EDMC work fine as well.
What does not
The game needs certain windows apps to run.
The launcher window is a bit glitchy.
Workarounds
- Create a new wine prefix.
- Update to the latest version of winetricks (very important and I learned that the hard way)
- Install these apps using winetricks: arial corefonts cjkfonts vcrun2019 d3dcompiler_43 d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9 ie8 dotnet452 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2015 msls31 quartz
- Set the windows version of the prefix to Win7
Note that dotnet452 can be a bit of a pain to install, but be patient. I had to retry a few times.
What was not tested
Elite dangerous Arena.
CQC gameplay
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I use a lutris wine build.
Wine - lutris -6.0-x86_64
I recommend you use Heroic Launcher. Works very nicely.
Install Lutris to and get their custom wine version.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x "Bookworm" x86_64 | Jan 30 2024 | 9.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | kolAflash | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x "Bookworm" x86_64 | Jan 05 2024 | 9.0-rc3 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | kolAflash | |
| Current | 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 | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2019 | 4.9 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Aaron Franke |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 41972 | "Elite: Dangerous" client crashes when starting | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 49667 | user32-rawinput-mouse: Application receives mouse events although not focused; hinders multi-tasking. | NEW | View | |
| 49782 | Elite Dangerous Horizons: crashes with wine64 5.16 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 50110 | Elite Dangerous Launcher (wine-5.21): AccessViolationException Protected Memory | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 56250 | Elite Dangerous client gets stuck on black screen after launch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
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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 Friday January 5th 2024, 23:01
What about a program requiring to install corefonts or dotnet via Winetricks? Would that make it garbage too?
I find this categorization really unhelpful. Elite Dangerous runs great for years. And I don't see big efforts to fix the D3D problems inside WineD3D. So it'll probably stay with DXVK for many more years.
by Aaron Franke on Saturday January 6th 2024, 0:01
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