I have been playing Arma 3 for a few months, as well I'm a programmer, and I know very well the OS Linux & Windows API.
In Windows I suffered from the old eternal Virtual Page getting slow, so I could never play Arma 3 because of that,
1. Changed to Linux instead (Debian 11.6),
-- the performance on Linux is going astonishingly well, because of how the kernel handles things, and now I am able to play it much better (I mean 75% of speed/performance compared to Windows) with minor random crashes.
2. The *problem* is, 1st Steam did not recognize some of my DLC that I purchased (and I purchased all of them with exception of 2 content creators).
- I did not notice at first, but when I opened the designated ***DLC folder*** I saw that Steam actually deleted those DLC files!
- and I have a backup of arma 3 (Windows version), which I was able to check. #so verify integrity is not an option here since Steam will constantly delete those (files) DLC's
3. To fix some other issues I installed "Arma 3 Unix Launcher", and when I checked in the "Mods" tab, it appeared "tanks" and "tacops" appeared as a custom mod. # I could activate those without problems
- I rapidly noticed that the DLC expansions in Linux is all *lowercase*
- so I changed some DLC names to lowercase which made it work like "AoW" (Art of War) to "aow"
- HOWEVER: "Contact" or "contact" is not working for the DLC Contact.
- HOWEVER: Old Man works while is not recognized in the Options > Expansions
#when I start the Arma 3 launcher
> I am getting this error "bin/config.bin/CfgVehicles/Church_Small_F/DestructionEffects/Smoke1/: Cannot find base class 'Smoke 1'"
#after the logo it presents:
> this error "No entry bin\config.bin/CfgVehicles/House_Small_F/DestructionEffects/Smoke1.simulation'
> Notice the difference between `bin\config` and `bin/config` above.
So all DLC works with the exception of Western Sahara and Contact!
If I go to options and select Options > Expansion #and enable let's say determined expansions it will load normally, but I'll not have the Unix Arma 3 Launcher options, which I need!
Also I'm TESTING, I don't think Options > Expansion solves the issue (but let's see)
and since I'm new to Arma 3, what's Enoch, is it the "Old Man"
I don't work for Bohemian please devs, give the proper configuration for the Linux version, I believe it attempts to load Windows files of some sort.
Thanks!!