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[SOLVED] Games not running (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have a problem with Borderlands 2 and Portal. If I run native version game crashes soon after launching. If I run Windows version with Proton game doeasn't launch at all. I tried solutions from ProtonDB but none of them worked. I'm new to Linux gaming so I'm not sure what to do.

I have Intel i9 11th generation CPU, Nvidia 1650 GPU and 16GB RAM.

Fix: I installed lib32-nvidia-utils. Now I can run native version of Portal and Windows version of Borderlands 2 with Proton 7.0-6 (haven't tried other versions of Proton).

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Darn.

At this point I'd be looking at logs. Two ways to go about this.

The first is to launch steam from a terminal (close it, then just enter steam in a terminal) and then try to launch the game. Steam will spew out lines about what is going on into the terminal.

The other way is to enable proton logs, which can be done by adding PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in the launch options for the game. Then when you attempt to run the game, a logfile should appear in you home folder.

I'm also assuming you've tried multiple proton versions? If you haven't, do that.

[–] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I also got this error for Vulkan while launching the Steam.

[–] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It seems like game breaks here.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Archwiki on Vulkan. This information should allow you to verify that Vulkan is correctly set up and working.

If that isn't the problem, move onto proton logs, as they will be more detailed.