Discovery on Linux. Article Guide (2025) (Requires update by Koshi materials)

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! IMPORTANT

@Sally we have a leading point made by Koshi what we should do. He discovered a way to stabilize Discovery on linux working to a perfect state equal to Windows according to his claims.
At some point i wish to find a time and replicate and update guide to what he discovered.
Planning at nearby week to try it all

Conversation copied from here https://discord.com/channels/61242979055...9993153598

Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:06 AM
I would just like to share my experience with getting disco to work properly on linux. So maybe someone in the future will find this helpful.
I returned to disco 2 months ago aprox.
I flowed all the tips and guides i found on the forums and also got advice here on discord.
The game worked .. it performed well but there were these random crashes. Mostly on undock, going trough jump gates or tradelanes. The jumgate issue was the most problematic. because it would leave me 100k from the jump gate upon re-log. I was told crashes like this can happen on windows also but they were more frequent with me.
I have tried many different wine versions,dx3d dlls, focused on 32bit wine prefix. Also tried couple different distros OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Fedora. The crashes persisted. I have asked around, people were saying the are not having the same issues. I have lost all hope and decided im going to play disco on windows. But , i dont want to boot to windows ?
As a last ditch effort, I have decided to ditch all the advice's about 32 bit prefix and try 64bit one and Ge-proton as a runner ( ge proton doesnt suport 32bit prefix ).
And what would you know ... the crashes are gone.
There is this font issue on 64 bit prefix ... Its enormous and cut off but i managed to get it to acceptable level by modifying fonts.ini and using Areal as font.
Im unsure why other linux users dont have this issue or maybe they do but the are silent.
Hope somebody finds this helpful and doesnt have to go to many sleeples nights, distro , game and prefix instals like i have
Using:
Fedora 43
Lutris
Runner: Ge proton 10-26
DXVK enabeled just in lutris for ge proton
Disc launcher using directx 9 -dx
fonts.ini in disco directory - reduced all fonts and switched to Areal


Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:22 AM
https://github.com/gloriouseggroll/proto...m/releases
I presume from here downloaded?

Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:24 AM
I downloaded it via ProtonUp-QT and inserted to lutris

Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:30 AM
Okay, some room for experimentation then
Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:31 AM
Yea... I lost my mind with this ?

Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:32 AM
After downloading to address we can see in screenshot
Lutris saw it as wine possibly to use and from there we follow guide as usual?

Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:35 AM
Feel free to mention example of changes u made to fonts with more details also

Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:37 AM
I would recommend setting up a normal 64 prefix after that install the required winetricks like directplay and others form guide.. install the game from lutris like in the guide.. than using protonup download and put ge proton in your lutris runners folder ... select it in lutris as a runer, select Enable dxvk in lutris ... in dico launcher select directx9 and use -dx optional arguments
Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:39 AM
How did u input -dx optional argument?

Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:40 AM
in the launcher that optional argument field

Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:40 AM
Screenshot?

Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:41 AM
Thanks, I will test it all
:mlem:
And then use it to update the guide

Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:45 AM
fonts.ini .. far from perfect but acceptable .. much better that the crashes
```
[TrueType]
nickname = ButtonText
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.031000

[TrueType]
nickname = PageHeader
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.031000

[TrueType]
nickname = SubHeader
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.026000

[TrueType]
nickname = ItemName
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.022000

[TrueType]
nickname = ListText
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.020000

[TrueType]
nickname = ToolTip
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.020000

[TrueType]
nickname = Rollover
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.016000

[TrueType]
nickname = HudSmall
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.019000

[TrueType]
nickname = MissionObjective
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.044000

[TrueType]
nickname = Normal
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.022000

[TrueType]
nickname = NewsMission
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.019000

[TrueType]
nickname = NewsTicker
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.032000

[TrueType]
nickname = PlayerName
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.019000

[TrueType]
nickname = TradePlayerName
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.015000

[TrueType]
nickname = DebugText
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.019000

[TrueType]
nickname = ConfirmPlayerText
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.026000

[TrueType]
nickname = ConfirmText
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.026000

[TrueType]
nickname = NavMap1600
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.008000

[TrueType]
nickname = NavMap1024
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.014000

[TrueType]
nickname = NavMap1280
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.013000

[TrueType]
nickname = NavMap800
font = Arial
fixed_height = 0.017000
```

maybe fonts instal from winetrick is also needed for this
but thets only for fonts fix the game will work
Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:48 AM
I suspect your instruction will work far better if we change to proton in the beginning instead of later

It will make sure fonts from freelancer vanilla during installation will actually get into the system, so your fonts fix will not be needed.
It is somehow possible to fix later also by copying fonts from iso
Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:48 AM
I tried it no help
Darkwind The Dark Duck — 12/14/25, 2:48 AM
Changing wine runner resets system under the hood I think, so changing runner supposedly wiped all things before done
Koshi — 12/14/25, 2:49 AM
i instaled it under wine 10.16 staging runer
font issues were there before proton
i think 64 bit prefix causes it
not like runer related
my regular 32bit prefix same 10.16 staging runer no font issue
i was reading someware bacause freelancer is so old its some scaling issue on 64bit prefixes
mind you .. i tried 9.0 runner from the guiede .. and many others QQ
also, as a sidenote ... the most reacent wine doesnt suport pure 32 bit prefixes anymore .. its unable to run 32 bit prefixes

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