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Cannot get a single game working on Linux (feddit.nu)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey all!

So I've been wanting to get into Linux gaming for a while thanks to inspiration from this community, but I've struggled to get it working, and after a final try today I'm starting to lose hope. I haven't gotten a single game working, most of them using Steam and Proton, but I also tried League of Legends through Lutris. I don't know what to try next, other than maybe installing a different Linux operating system and trying again. Anyone with some advice on what I can do, or where I can turn for help? I've searched online as best I can but didn't find anything that seemed relevant.

Some details of what I've tried if anyone is curious: on Steam I tried Trine 4 and Jusant today, previously also Baldur's Gate 3 a few months ago. The games simply don't launch, though for BG3 and LoL at least the launcher starts. Usually no error message, but Trine did for once tell me "GPU error detected" today. I've tried both Proton Experimental and whatever the newest version is at the time, today Proton GE-Proton8-14. Some system details:

Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS RAM: 16GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 six-core GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU Driver: Nvidia 545.29.06 (proprietary)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try run steam from terminal, it will show more logs about the error, this is my best advice for now since I don't use Nvidia for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah it did indeed show much more info! I could pick out two things that seemed like error messages, I'll search the internet for them later but gotta run for Christmas celebration in a minute.

When starting Steam it told me "unable to init and enumerate GPUs with Vulkan" and "BInit - unable to initialize Vulkan!", which sounds potentially serious.

On trying to start the games (and maybe at other occasions too) it told me

Glib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_setting_schema_source_lookup: assertion 'source != NULL' failed

I'll look into them when I get the time, but I wanted to write them here anyway for completeness. Thank you for your help!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Make sure you have both your nvidia drivers and vulkan installed. Your errors point to a missing vulkan.

https://linuxconfig.org/install-and-test-vulkan-on-linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Based on that Id say the Nvidia driver is not working or installed. As others have mentioned PopOs has a setup with nvidia already installed, otherwise will be worth googling it for your specific distro. Good luck!