Just wondering the best method here. Searching doesn’t always get me the answer for every game, and I keep having this issue where I launch a game and it will load then stop without ever displaying anything (liminal core and assetto corsa are 2 examples). Running mint, all AMD. protonge, wine tricks, all of that needed stuff is installed. I run steam from terminal to try and see if I can figure out where it’s crashing, but I’m not totally sure. Is there a better error dump I can access ? I’ve tried multiple proton versions, do I need to launch it with all 50 versions to find a working one?
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ProtonDB. If there’s nothing there, then I resort to running Steam in the terminal to see logs.
Check the Github issue tracker too, especially for games that have just released. The pyroveil fix for AC: Shadows was on the issue for that game a day or two before ProtonDB.
You have already done most of what I would do, but here is my list:
- Try another Proton version (in my experience Proton 6 seems stable and sufficiently different)
- Check ProtonDB if this problem is known
- Read the logs in the command line output
- Try both steam-native and steam-runtime (maybe this is only an Arch thing?)
- First back up, then delete the entire protonprefix (
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/<GAME-ID>). THIS WILL ALSO REMOVE ALL SAVEFILES OF THE GAME! - Use an Xorg desktop environment instead of Wayland
- Protondb
- Different proton version
- Restart steam in terminal and look at what it logs (permission problems are quite frequent multi-user system)
- Die
ProtonDB.
I go on protondb and see if people regularly have problems. If not I check to see if someone has the same GPU. Then I try whatever trick they have there. Then I try switching to an X11 session instead of wayland.
If there’s a launcher like rockstar I search for that specifically.
PROTON_LOG=1 in the launch options
First I typically see if other Proton versions work, like ProtonGE or Experimental. That tends to fix quite a number of issues.
If still not, to ProtonDB I go. Often if I can’t find a solution there it’s hopeless.
If it doesn’t work with normal proton or bleeding edge proton experimental, then I refund.
I had this issue where a game wouldn’t launch at all and there weren’t any useful logs. I don’t know how to use wine to launch the game without steam so I didn’t do that. I stead I pretty much reinstalled kernel and dependencies. I don’t know what went wrong or how that fixed it but it did.
I think it had something to do with drivers.
