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sc-lug-team edited this page Jan 30, 2025 · 122 revisions

Prerequisites

Tip

New to Linux? See our Recommended Distributions for a list of the distros most compatible with Star Citizen.

  1. Install Wine v9.4 or newer from your distro's repos. If wine is not available from your distro's repos, you may follow the instructions on the winehq website.
    • Fedora users, run dnf install wine. Do not install using the graphical installer or from winehq; they provide a wow64 build which will not work with Star Citizen.
  2. Install winetricks 20250102 or newer from your distribution's repositories. Links, if needed, are on the winetricks github. This pulls in some needed dependencies.
  3. Lutris is optional. If you want to use it, install Lutris v0.5.18 or newer and launch it once before installing Star Citizen to trigger its automatic winetricks dependency download. Note: We do not recommend running git builds of Lutris. If using an immutable distro (ie. Bazzite, Nix, Silverblue), we recommend flatpak Lutris.

Installation Steps

  1. Download our LUG Helper (Select the .tar.gz. Distro packages are listed here).
  2. Launch the LUG Helper and select your preferred installation method. We recommend the non-Lutris Install Star Citizen with Wine.
  3. Allow the Preflight Check to fix any issues it finds before proceeding!
  4. Select an install location on a linux-formatted SSD where you have space for the entire game, approximately 110GB (we do not recommend an HDD or NTFS).
  5. If using Lutris, change the runner to UMU-Latest in the game's runner configuration tab.
  6. Run the RSI Launcher, log in, and click install to finish installing the game.
  7. Launch the game. See you in the 'verse!

Important

  • Check our latest news for necessary workarounds, Nvidia gpu driver problems, and other important issues.
  • Wayland users: See required workarounds to resolve mouse cursor and view snapping issues.

Tip

Questions or Problems? Check our Troubleshooting Guide or ask for help in one of our social channels!

Note

On first launch, you may see low FPS while shaders are compiled and caches are filled.
This can also occur after updating Star Citizen, your graphics driver, Wine, or DXVK.

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