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.
Don’t worry dude, we’ll get you sorted.
I could ask you a bunch of questions about your system, but it’s easier if you just use inxi:
You may have to install it first with your package manager. It’ll output your full system information (-F) with personal data removed (-z).
Also, close steam, open a terminal emulator and run:
Steam will launch and output debugging info into that terminal window. If you close the window it will exit steam.
When you run a game and it fails, look at the log and see if you see any errors or crashes being reported.
Note which version of Proton that you’re using (if not default).
Here’s what I got:
System: Kernel: 6.15.9-zen1-1.1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.4 Distro: Garuda Linux Machine: Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 990 v: 01 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: Dell model: 06D7TR v: A02 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A24 date: 07/02/2018 CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 1024 KiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2072 min/max: 1600/3800 cores: 1: 2072 2: 2072 3: 2072 4: 2072 5: 2072 6: 2072 7: 2072 8: 2072 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GM107GL [Quadro K620] driver: nvidia v: 575.64.05 Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.05 renderer: Quadro K620/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: nvidia,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] driver: snd_hda_intel API: ALSA v: k6.15.9-zen1-1.1-zen status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> IF-ID-1: wlp0s29u1u2i2 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-2: wlp0s29u1u6i2 state: down mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek 802.11ac NIC driver: btusb,rtw_8821cu type: USB Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: N/A Report: btmgmt ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: N/A Device-2: Realtek 802.11ac NIC driver: btusb,rtw_8821cu type: USB Drives: Local Storage: total: 4.33 TiB used: 2.31 TiB (53.4%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SK Hynix model: SH920 2.5 7MM 256GB size: 238.47 GiB ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AZLX-75K2TA1 size: 465.76 GiB ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD40NDZW-11BCVS0 size: 3.64 TiB type: USB Partition: ID-1: / size: 238.47 GiB used: 46.71 GiB (19.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: /home size: 238.47 GiB used: 46.71 GiB (19.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 ID-3: /var/log size: 238.47 GiB used: 46.71 GiB (19.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 ID-4: /var/tmp size: 238.47 GiB used: 46.71 GiB (19.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.29 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A Info: Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.29 GiB used: 3.69 GiB (11.8%) Processes: 316 Uptime: 46m Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.38Nothing stands out as being wrong here.
It’s detecting your graphics card, you’re using the latest versions of the graphics driver, wayland and vulkan and your GPU architecture is supported.
That’s good because these kinds of problems are much more annoying to deal with.
Not disk space exhaustion.
With the steam - d bit:
That’s basically the normal thing Steam does with an application is closing.
What version of Proton are you using in Steam Settings -> Compatibility -> Default compatibility tool?
It’s usually Experimental, but I’ve played around with others to set as default. Most recent was 8.0-4 since that’s what Fo4 usually likes.
Ah.
Try using GE-Proton-10-11, it’s a community build of Proton using the latest patches and fixes (it updates a lot more frequently than Valve’s proton). Another big advantage here is that you can use Wayland directly, bypassing the xwayland layer which will eliminate one possible thing that can go wrong.
You can install it using ‘ProtonUp-Qt’, which should be available on your package manager. When you run it, just click the Add version, select GE-Proton10-11 and click install. It’ll download it and put it in the proper directory, you’ll have to restart Steam for it to show up in Steam’s list. Set it to the default (either in Steam Settings, or in the settings of whatever game you’re using).
Once you have GE-Proton10-11 selected for the game, go into the launch options for the game (Properties -> General) and put:
This will tell Proton to directly output to Wayland. If your monitor supports HDR and you have enabled HDR in Plasma’s display configuration, you can enable HDR support by adding PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1. So,
Wayland and HDR support only work after Proton10 so make sure you select the right version of Proton.