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What is your first check for games that won't launch? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Run from terminal and see what went wrong.

If you’re using a launcher with built in logger, refer to that (I’ve seen one on lutris, not Bottles, unsure about heroic).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This. It also made me genuinely hate how Steam on Linux handles library sharing on a multi user system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's been a while since I've been in that situation, but I used to just make a common folder /steam and create a group with access to it. I'd then grant all users access to that group. Seemed to work fine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is it just Linux? I keep finding games that clearly make no attempt to separate game assets from user save data.

I've tried multiple user accounts pointing to the same library path and the file permissions keep getting screwed up. I tried one user account with steam's multi user login and the save files tend to jump between users.

I don't think it's acceptable to duplicate a 100GB game so that two users can have different save points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So far I've yet to encounter the separation between save and game data issue. It's permissions that drive me up the wall. I've tried giving everyone write access, I've tried creating a group specifically for games. But no, proton/wine prefixes require ownership and not just access, and will not yield, and Steam won't even show what's the issue unless you run it from terminal.