It is important that the installation process is done in Gaming mode as the Star Citizen custom launcher will not load in console mode. It is also important that you are on the Bare Metal plan, as Star Citizen will not work on any VM-based plan.

Step 1:

To help ensure a smooth gaming experience for StarCitizen, step one is to disable the swap file on your online gaming PC. You will need to do this every time you want to play StarCitizen. Our Network Storage has limits on how many reads and writes an account can use at any given time. If these limits are exceeded, we will shut down the gaming PC in order to prevent our network storage from being overloaded and affecting other users. By disabling the swap file, you prevent this from happening. Don’t worry; our Bare Metal Gaming PC has enough RAM, so swap is not needed. You can open the terminal by clicking the fourth icon on the bottom taskbar; it is the black one. Then, you need to type sudo swapoff -a and press Enter. It will prompt you for the Linux admin password, which can be found in the welcome letter.

Step 2:

Confirm that swap has been turned off by bringing up the Linux Mint Monitor. Now, confirm that swap has been turned off.

Step 3:

Now we will need to download the Lug Helper install file for StarCitizen. Please visit the following URL and click on the latest version on the right-hand side of the page: https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper

Step 4:

Now let’s download the source.zip version of this installer helper script.

Step 5:

Now, let’s head over to the download folder to have it extracted. Please right-click and then click on ‘Show in Folder.

Step 6:

Let’s right-click on the source.zip file and extract it.

Step 6:

Double-click on the extracted folder, then right-click on an empty area and select ‘Open in Terminal.

Step 7:

Now that the terminal is open, type ls and press Enter to look for the lug-helper.sh file. To run it, simply type ./lug-helper.sh and then press Enter. The script will prompt you for the Linux admin password, which can be found in the welcome letter.

Step 8:

This will now launch the installation of Star Citizen. Let’s click on ‘Yes’ on this screen.

Step 9:

Please choose the Lutris option since it offers the best compatibility.

Step 10:

It is extremely important that you click no. As mentioned above, swap can cause random crashes with our current setup. Don’t worry, our Bare metal system has enough RAM and VRAM to run the game without any swap.

Step 11:

Please click ‘Yes’ in the next window.

Step 12:

This will now open another window for you, which is the Lutris installer. Please click on ‘Install’.

Step 13:

Please continue.

Step 14:

Now click on ‘Install’ to download the launcher. This may take a few minutes.

Step 15:

Now let’s click on the launch in order to bring up the StarCitizen custom launcher. This can take a few seconds, so don’t quit too early.

Step 16:

As mentioned above, this needs to be done in Gaming Mode. The StarCitizens custom launcher requires a GPU and will not launch in Console mode.