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SPT Lutris installer (Additions)

Tip

You can use protonup-qt to install new wine versions in Lutris!

This *.yml script uses a custom, native Linux install script.

You can review the source code here.

More details

Why using a custom installer script?

The initial reason for writting the script was to work around issues with the official SPTInstaller running through Wine.

There is a bug in most common Wine runners used by Lutris or Bottles that is causing the patching process to fail randomly. To work around this, the user needs to manually install a custom Wine runner in Lutris and use it globally for the installation.

To get rid of this extra step and also improve on stability and usability, we began experimenting with patching game files on our own using xdelta3 and the patch files included in the official patcher archive. Later, a custom installation script has been written as well.

What are the advantages?

  • Faster, more stable installation process
  • Additional features, e.g.:
    • Native installer & patcher in a single script
    • Support for reflinking on supported filesystems (e.g. btrfs)
    • Reinstall mode - creates a backup of user files and reinstalls the latest SPT version
    • WIP: Create & restore user backups using CLI commands

What about disadvantages?

  • No standalone GUI - you either have to use the Lutris installer or the CLI to interact with the script.
  • No official support on Discord or elsewhere by the mod developers

What you need

  • ~100GB free disk space
  • Lutris
    • We recommend using a native Lutris package (not Flatpak/Snap)
      • For Ubuntu-based/Debian-based distros: You can find the latest release *.deb package here!
    • Check if you have all your wine dependencies installed
    • Check if GPU and vulkan drivers are installed
  • SPT Lutris installer (*.yml)

Dependencies

Ubuntu-based distros

sudo apt-get install p7zip xxd

Arch-based distros

sudo pacman -S p7zip xxd

Fedora

sudo dnf install p7zip-plugins vim-common

Notes

  • If you have issues with the default wine provided by Lutris, try Kron4ek vanilla wine-9.19-amd64 for the installation!
  • Sometimes the Bsg Launcher can return an error when being closed, resulting in the installation to fail. Make sure to keep all game files when asked by Lutris & retry running the script
  • It's possible that the EFT client launches during the installation in the BSG Launcher. You can close it e.g. using Alt+F4 to continue with the installation process

Installation

  1. Run the SPT Lutris installer script:

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  2. Wait until the BSG Launcher shows up, → login, then either:

    • press Download in the launcher

    OR

    • Copy/paste an existing VANILLA game installation into the prefix, e.g:

        /home/USER/Games/escape-from-tarkov/drive_c/Battlestate Games

    • Select set the path to existing game installation in the launcher & navigate to the directory by selecting My computer → C: → Battlestate Games & then the copied game directory.

    • Wait until the file verification is completed

  3. After EFT has been successfully installed, close the BSG Launcher to proceed.

  4. Wait for the installer script to complete

    [!TIP] For better performance & additional fixes, we recommend using latest GE-Proton or wine-ge-8-26 for playing!

    • If everything worked you should be able to launch the SPTarkov - Server, followed by SPTarkov - Launcher & login.

    Have fun!

Still having issues? Visit our issues section.

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