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The patch to bring cross-platform online play for Linux players of Civilization VI has been long delayed, with Aspyr Media now getting a little help from Intel.

After cross-platform originally being planned for early in 2017, Linux gamers have sadly been left waiting. By the looks of it, we're also behind on normal patches right now too.

Writing on Steam earlier, a rep from Aspyr Media said this:

[…] This issue naggingly staying around is certainly not due to lack of effort on our part.

I'll also remind the forum that xplatform is confirmed fixed in this patch. 

Also, in reply to a user jokingly telling them to blink if it's a third-party issue, they said:

Lol...no blinks...this one is on us. Intel has been kind enough to jump in and help.

We still don't know exactly what the issue is, since Aspyr Media haven't said. They gave a hint that it was due to a serious crash on a specific Intel chipset although they're likely not able to give out any technical details on it.

Thinking of picking up Civilization VI for Linux? Head to Humble Store or Steam.

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TheBard Oct 18, 2018
Quoting: GuestPerhaps support for amdgpu and radeonsi would be fine as well. IIRC CIV VI has no official support for those drivers at all and there are a lot of serious issues with the port when attempting to run them on Linux using MESA...

It doesn't help that the ports of Civ V and Beyond earth are BROKEN and crash constantly...

I am very dissappointed with Aspyr i don't remember a single port from them without serious issues. Especially when those games become older, they tend to break in many ways... I just hope Civ VII port goes to Feral...


I've played Civ6 intensively using amdgpu on arch. It worked perfectly fine. Sure loadings are slow but I didn't have any glitch.

The game crashed several times but it was not Civ fault actually. The amdgpu driver made X freeze. I have the same behavior with lots of GPU intensive games including the ones I play with Wine/DXVK so I doubt it's related directly to Civ but the driver.

I tried one kernel parameter that sees to fix the issue by disabling DMA for amdgpu. I don't know if I'm just lucky but there haven't been a freeze for days.
Kristian Oct 18, 2018
" I don't know if I'm just lucky but there haven't been a freeze for days."

Imagine reading that in a review: "It went without freezes for days, 5/5 stars".
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