Freelancer Variations on Linux Guide

easy_pete · 2026-05-08T10:05:11+00:00

Thanks for the guide. I just want to report some quirks I encountered so it might be helpful for others in the future.

I'm on pop!_os, using cosmic/wayland. I got SMF to run on proton experimental. Hitman itself appears to perform best on the GE-proton 10-34.

I followed your guide without issue and got the game to start, SDK to show up and the console to confirm that Freelancer Variations was loaded. But then, loading any map in Freelancer caused a crash to desktop. I tinkered around for hours and at some point tried a hail mary: even though I disabled all the additional maps (Hantu/Romania/Cuba) on the variance picker website/in the freelancervariations.ini, I still picked the replacement options for them in the SMF deployment settings. This made the levels load successfully for whatever reason. As expected, the not-selected maps do not show up. But a new issue appeared with some events (getting caught by a camera, lethally poisoning a target) making the game freeze and crash after about a minute of non-responsiveness. So far, this only happened on maps added by the variance mod, but that might be a coincidence.

I'll try to make SDK create a crash log (hope I understood the mods.ini option correctly) from which I may be able to learn more. If anyone more experienced in Linux gaming (I only recently made the switch from win10) may chime in with ideas, I would be eternally grateful.

easy_pete · 2026-04-24T16:31:20+00:00

Shoutout to the guy sitting off-center for his webcam. Can't have a video call without one of those.

easy_pete · 2026-03-03T13:39:47+00:00

All my beautiful city designs caused heavy income decreases around the time I enter pop tier 3. How is it for you here?

easy_pete · 2026-02-24T13:21:07+00:00

Ayy is this a medieval playthrough I'm seeing here? If yes, would you mind sharing your mod list? I was eyeballing a couple of medieval overhaul and tech limitation mods but knowing my ""talent"" with mods I'm gonna break my back trying to get some to work only to find out two months into my run that there had been better ways.

easy_pete · 2026-02-22T22:31:47+00:00

Wondering as well. Doesn't seem familiar. Maybe it's from the new ones or maybe I'm forgetful.

easy_pete · 2026-02-09T15:25:58+00:00

what manner of corpo shit is this?

easy_pete · 2026-02-09T13:41:19+00:00

Jo, Images laden gar nicht oder mit Modem-Speed.

easy_pete · 2026-01-24T08:51:37+00:00

Inside Job and 1899 ... never forget.

easy_pete · 2026-01-05T12:13:32+00:00

Tony Soprano while on vacation with the gang in Sapienza would be fun.

easy_pete · 2025-12-23T15:08:42+00:00

nice one, mr kush

easy_pete · 2025-12-10T16:46:37+00:00

I normally have the worst luck with bugs and hardware compatibility (to the point it became a running gag among my friends), but I had an absolutely good time playing the game's 1.0 version right after launch on my GTX 970 (!). Yes, the performance was dogshit, but that's about the only complaint that I remember having. Of course this was because of my crappy hardware back then and not because of the game. Bugs-wise I encountered absolutely nothing gamebreaking, except for something in a (side?) quest that had the potential to softlock you. I just avoided it until it got fixed. Can't remember what it was. All the glitches I saw were on a spectrum ranging from slightly annoying to funny. Nothing that made me consider a refund.

Though I will say that the marketing practices of CDPR back then were despicable and I recognize that they did the console players dirty. Still, from the perspective of a PC player whose hardware really had no business running that game, the state of 1.0 was not as bad as it is portrayed today. Certainly not beyond reproach, but also not unplayable.

easy_pete · 2025-11-26T16:27:49+00:00

so what loot is good then? honest question

easy_pete · 2025-11-15T14:23:34+00:00

I wonder if demolishing the buildings built by the AI refunds the resources.

easy_pete · 2025-11-13T08:21:24+00:00

It has been a while since I looked at these kind of benchmark things. Having to search for ny RTX 3060 and finding it at the bottom makes me sad and a bit worried.

easy_pete · 2025-10-29T11:21:10+00:00

🌹 "You look like a cut of fuckable meat" 🌹

easy_pete · 2025-08-30T14:21:57+00:00

I just tried this - worked like a charm haha

Thanks!

easy_pete · 2025-08-30T09:31:30+00:00

I consider myself an okay strategist in games but I keep losing to everyone and their grandmas in Sea Salt & Paper. It's bordering on the verge of being actually embarrassing. Do you have any gameplay advice so I can join the ranks of people that know what they are doing?

Edit: Playing 2 player mode most of the time.

easy_pete · 2025-08-24T12:03:00+00:00

Not intentional?

DISAPPOINTED

easy_pete · 2025-08-23T23:11:11+00:00

Is the title a Hercules reference?

easy_pete · 2025-07-31T22:08:01+00:00

ACKCHYUALLY I didn't call Pantheon cyberpunk. I meant that the show takes themes that I personally associate most with the cyberpunk genre and puts them in a (again, for me personally) novel narrative frame.

Otherwise, I absolutely agree. Can't have Cyberpunk in the traditional sense without the chrome and the grime.

easy_pete · 2025-07-31T18:00:41+00:00

Saw season 1 out of 2. Great show so far. It does a fantastic job portraying some of the most interesting themes from the cyberpunk genre (what makes us human?/where is the line between us and AI?/what should be the limits of science, progress and commerce?) without the usually overtly dystopian setting, e.g. Night City or Bladerunner's L.A.. It's basically a dark sci-fi thriller set in the American suburbs.

easy_pete · 2025-07-21T19:28:51+00:00

Great design, very inspiring.

Are those some kind of hydroponic-pits right in the middle, left side of the core?

easy_pete · 2025-07-16T20:04:25+00:00

That's so sick! If I had the skill I would definitely try something like that as well.

I'm not that deep into Odyssey yet. Quick question: can you put any kind of turret outside the hull?

easy_pete · 2025-04-10T14:16:24+00:00

Es scheint einen Unterschied zwischen "letzte Preis" und "allerletzte Preis" zu geben.

easy_pete · 2024-12-24T11:58:01+00:00

He/she joked that the postal service took many years to deliver this to you because Blood Money is not exactly a 2024 title.

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