LUG Helper

Star Citizen's Linux Users Group Helper Script
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/LUG

Greetings, fellow Penguin!

This script is designed to help you manage and optimize Star Citizen on Linux.

Zenity menus are used for a GUI experience with a fallback to terminal-based menus where Zenity is unavailable.
Command line arguments are available for quickly launching functions from the terminal.

Configuration is saved in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/starcitizen-lug/
Keybinds are backed up to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/starcitizen-lug/keybinds/

Options

Preflight Check

• Runs a series of system optimization checks and offers to fix any issues.
  • Checks that vm.max_map_count is set to at least 16777216.
    • This sets the maxmimum number of "memory map areas" a process can have. While most applications need less than a thousand maps, Star Citizen requires access to more.
  • Checks that the hard open file descriptors limit is set to at least 524288.
    • This limits the maximum number of open files on your system. On some Linux distributions, the default is set too low for Star Citizen.

Install Star Citizen with Wine

• Installs Star Citizen using the system's Wine without Lutris

Install Star Citizen with Lutris

• Launches Lutris and installs Star Citizen

Install PowerShell into Wine prefix

• Uses winetricks to install PowerShell

Manage Lutris Runners

• Quickly install and delete Lutris wine runners

Manage Lutris DXVK Versions

• Quickly install and delete DXVK versions for Lutris

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Switch the helper between LIVE/PTU/EPTU
  • Target the LIVE, PTU, or EPTU installation for all operations. Defaults to LIVE on each run.

Target a different Star Citizen installation

• Select a different wine prefix for the Helper to target in its operations

• Delete my Star Citizen USER folder and preserve my keybinds

  • The helper will make backups of any exported keybinds, delete your Star Citizen USER folder, then restore your keybind files.
  • To export your keybinds from within the game, go to:
    • Options->Keybindings->Control Profiles->Save Control Settings
  • To re-import your keybinds from within the game, select them from the list:
    • Options->Keybindings->Control Profiles

• Delete my shaders

  • It is recommended to delete your shaders directory after each game update.
  • You will be prompted to confirm each directory before deletion, so you may choose which game version shaders you want cleared out.

• Delete my DXVK cache

  • A troubleshooting step that sometimes helps fix various issues and crashes.

• Display Helper and Star Citizen directories

  • Show all the directories currently in use by both the Helper and Star Citizen.

• Reset Helper configs

  • Delete the configs saved by the helper in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/starcitizen-lug/

Get a random Penguin's Star Citizen referral code

• Display a referral code for a random member of the Star Citizen Linux Users Group.

Installation

From Source:

1. Download it! https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper/releases
2. Extract it!
3. Run it!

Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lug-helper/
NixOS: https://github.com/LovingMelody/nix-citizen
Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jackgreiner/lug-helper

Dependencies: bash, coreutils, curl, polkit (these should be installed by default on most distributions)
Optional Dependencies: zenity (for GUI)

Made with <3

Author:

• https://github.com/the-sane

Contributors:

• https://github.com/Termuellinator
• https://github.com/pstn
• https://github.com/gort818
• https://github.com/victort
• https://github.com/Wrzlprnft
• https://github.com/ananace
• https://github.com/LovingMelody
• https://github.com/mactan-sc
• Runner Downloader inspired by https://github.com/richardtatum/sc-runner-updater

Contributing

See the Contributors' Guide for a high level overview of the script