Linux: AMD GPU: Terrain not Rendering

[Davidian1024]

I've gotten the impression from people on Discord that no one on Linux with an AMD GPU (like myself) is able to see any terrain right now. This seems to be true of any planet/moon. This means the Earth is a giant water world, Luna is invisible, etc.

I thought I'd start a thread here to see how common this is and if anyone has a fix.

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Here's a quick test you can perform to tell if you have the problem:

1. Switch to map view.
2. Adjust the view so that land is visible.
3. Zoom out far enough until land becomes visible. (there is a specific distance where the game switches to a simpler rendering method.)

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Current Status as of 2026-01-11: Terrain still not rendering on my AMD GPU on Linux.

GPU: Radeon 7900 XTX (RDNA 3)
OS: Bazzite 43.20251210.0 (Kinoite)
Wine Version: 10.0
Dotnet Version: 10.0.0
KSA Version: v2026.1.3.3194

 

[dorian]

amd ryzen 7 5800x 8 core 8gb vram 32gb ram.

earth renders as a bright white ball, little white boxes show up on the craft if viewing the craft with the earth behind it.
crashes if f3 (ground track) is pressed.

crashes if I do solar system.

 

[Kiwi Shark]

You might want to check out and contribute to some of our existing Linux threads, you might find some useful info there.

One True Linux Thread - https://forums.ahwoo.com/threads/one-true-linux-thread-tm.144/

Linux Discussion - https://forums.ahwoo.com/threads/linux-discussion.72/

Linux Troubleshooting (w/ Wine & Maybe Proton) - https://forums.ahwoo.com/threads/troubleshooting-ksa-pre-alpha-on-linux-under-wine.52/

 

[Davidian1024]

It's nice to not always have to lump all Linux issues into generic Linux threads.

 

[Davidian1024]

I think we really need sections or categories (not sure what they'd be called on this forum) for Linux, Mac, etc. There are alot of people who are not gonna be playing this on Windows.

 

[iaidoka]

7800 XT user here, I also don't see terrain. I've tried a lot of different launchers (Bottles, Heroic, Steam) and Wine/Proton versions (soda 9, Proton 8/9/10/experimental, GE-Proton) - no terrain anywhere, and differing amounts of other graphical glitches. I'm starting to wonder if that particular bug might not also occur on Windows.

I really hope the dev team does some QA on a Proton box at some point, judging by the activity the Linux threads are receiving, there's quite a few of us.

 

[Davidian1024]

So, for what it's worth. I just launched the game on my wife's PC. It has an older NVidia card in it. A GTX 1080 Ti. The game ran pretty poorly. But it did render the terrain.

 

[seehpcod]

7600 XT, tried "everything", no terrain.

@Davidian1024: Could you edit your original post to show, that it does not work, yet? Include latest version. Or make a new "Canary-Thread: Radeon not rendering terrain under Linux yet"-thread? As soon as anyone gets it working, it should be written down there.

 

[Davidian1024]

7600 XT, tried "everything", no terrain.

@Davidian1024: Could you edit your original post to show, that it does not work, yet? Include latest version. Or make a new "Canary-Thread: Radeon not rendering terrain under Linux yet"-thread? As soon as anyone gets it working, it should be written down there.

Good idea. Ok, I just updated it.