Farming Simulator 19

What works

- Installing the game

- Launching the game

- Playing tutorial, starting new career

- Playing the game

What does not

- Sometimes game does not launch at all. Getting Epic Games to work on WINE is an own problem altogether.

- Adjusting most graphical options freezes and crashes the game. Killing WINE and restarting the game works to get back and the game remembers any settings the player changed.

- Low framerates (Below 30) cause the controls to start glitching and work with a large delay

- Initially game crashed on map load

Workarounds

To fix game crashing on map load, I have done the following:

- Installed winbind

- Installed mdac28

- Changed the game's renderer to OpenGL

- Skipped game opening videos, as this might sometimes crash the game

What was not tested

Multiplayer hasn't been tested yet, game hasn't been fully completed

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Changing the renderer to OpenGL: 

Locate My Documents/My Games/Farming Simulator 19/ - by default "My Documents" is at ~/Documents

Open the game.xml file found in this folder using a text editor

Locate the -tags, and replace D3D_11 with OpenGL

Note:

It is unclear if this actually works, as the game log still prints
the renderer as being DirectX 11, but I am quite sure this is what
stopped my game from crashing

Skipping the game opening intros:

In the Epic Games Launcher, go to Settings and under Farming Simulator, add the launch option "-reset". This prevents the opening videos from playing and can increase your chance at getting the game to launch.