I have been able to run games whether it was Steam, GOG, or itch and now I can’t get shit to run. I don’t have the worst rig. I was playing Fo4, and now suddenly I can’t. I switched from a shitty Windows to Garuda. That was working wonderful, until I suddenly couldn’t get it to work no matter what Proton version. Then I switched to Ubuntu, same issue. Then Cachy, then back to Ubuntu, and now back at it again with Garuda. Still. The. Same. Fucking. Problem. I have scoured the net for answers and fixes to no avail and I feel like driving into traffic. I cannot get any Proton version to run ANY GAME at this point, not just the more intensive ones. What the fuck do I do? Here are some specs:

  • Processor: 8 x Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40Ghz
  • Mem: 32 GiB RAM
  • Graphics Processor: Quadro K620
  • Dell Optiplex 990 (7010 housing)
  • 245GB SSD, with additional 500GB HDD and 4TB external drive

I have been able to seamlessly play all kinds of games for months, and then it just up and doesn’t let me anymore. I haven’t done anything to tweak shit out of whack. No matter how many clean installs and following instructions otherwise, this shit feels BROKEN and I’m LOSING IT. Someone help me please.

-Little extra info, I always skip the Vulkan shaders bullshit and it was fine before. Sometimes it’d load with the "Downloading Windows (somethingsomething), but I don’t get that anymore, and as soon as I skip the thing crashes before any launchers of sorts can load so I can mess with configuration with the little GUI bullshit before total launch.

  • UPDATE:

I have switched to Bazzite and have set my external drive to ext4. Shit seems to work seamlessly now. Thank you all very much.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Did you install the nVidia drivers? That could be a common error source across distros. No idea how that works with Quadro cards.

    You can use PROTON_LOG=1 %command% as launch parameter of your games to get a steam-123.log file in your home to help with debugging.

    Do Linux native games work?

    • fleebleneeble@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I’ll try that out, but typically when I have tried using launch options they have never worked so far.

      I tried Half Life and Gmod and those ran fine, but those are the only games out of like 100.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        Hmm. If this is the original Half Life, that’s Linux-native, so it won’t be using Proton. Valve indicates that with a little SteamOS “gear” icon in the list of supported OSes on the game webpage.

        Don’t know what else might be unique to Half Life.

        I wonder if it might be something breaking Proton.

        EDIT: Can force a Linux native game to instead run the Windows binaries under Proton by going to the game’s properties and choosing “run this game under a specific compatibility tool” and selecting a Proton version. If nothing is chosen, Steam will prefer to use Linux-native binaries, if available. If you do that and it makes Half Life not work, that’d be a good argument that Proton isn’t able to function at all.

        EDIT2: I guess “gear” isn’t the right term for the SteamOS logo. “Cam”, maybe? This thing:

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      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Did you install the nVidia drivers? That could be a common error source across distros. No idea how that works with Quadro cards.

          • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            Getting a look at the proton logs is the next step. The game arguments I posted. They are not meant to get anything running but to give us log files.