Erik is now playing tModLoader
Erik is now playing Terraria
Erik is now playing tModLoader
Erik is now playing Terraria
Erik is now playing tModLoader
Erik is now playing Terraria
Erik is now playing tModLoader
Erik is now playing TerrariaAs an aside… don’t mow in flip flops…
My professor’s husband lost some toes that way
Why? /s
The fashion police will hear you from a mile away
Yeah you gotta at least have some socks as a base layer
FWIW, this is a bug of some sort in Steam. My wife and I play together and I see her spam like this all the time, and her game is working perfectly.
Our setups are the same, and I apparently never spam her. The one diff is my comp is on ethernet, and hers is on wifi due to it’s location.
Wonder if it has to do with connection.
That’s why I always set my presence to offline. Nobody needs to know what I’m playing right this moment.
Scutiger is now playing Genshin Impact
More likely: Erik installed some NexusMods stuff that he’d probably rather not talk about.
You did WHAT to a death claw?
I hate that I even know what you’re talking about. May this upvote be mentally cleansing for us both.
Some stains can not be cleansed.
Gave them a devastating wet willie.
Received a devastating wet willie.
“WITH a deathclaw!”
True Blood theme song plays
As a mod dev, this is why I set my steam to invisible…
As a mod dev
Not all heroes wear capes 🫡
That game needed the troubleshooting to happen in development. They’re probably just trying to get through Vault 22, that shit crashed constantly once you got to the lower levels. I was saving every 20 seconds.
I make mods for RimWorld and my poor friends get subjected to this all the time (I’m really bad about remembering to set myself as offline and my friends find it more amusing than anything else) because the fastest way to test my code is usually just to close the game, and reopen it.
My brother unfriended me over trying to play with mods. 🤣
Dont worry, with rimworlds load times i bet they dont even notice.
What mods do you make?
Linux gamers too. Sometimes I come across a game like Assetto Corsa that launches for 0.1 seconds and then crashes, so I’m trying the routine list of low hanging fruit easy fixes in the hopes that one of them does the trick
Relatively new still to Linux gaming, what does your routine list look like?
in addition the stuff other people have mentioned: I’ve had success checking
journalctlfor errors, usually it will have something that’s pretty actionable/searchable compared to trying different proton versions at randomNot op, but mine is
- check protondb, try the last few recommended versions
- search web for “game name + linux” or your distro
- ask for help on relevant discords for either your game or your distro
- NEVER trust any ai answers.
So far that has covered the problems i ran into, but maybe someone has something to add?
Add to the list “Deactivate Steam overlay”. That had fixed multiple games for me in the past.
Same here.
And if there no protondb info or it have “platinum”, then start praying. Also, god forbid if you want something extra like FSR4 or install some mods. Then you mixing this things to whole “is that my hardware\software\proton issue or game genially bugged?”
One thing to add to that list:
When checking ProtonDB, cross-reference the environment variables with those listed on the proton-cachyos README. In my experience, most people are copy-pasting environment variables they read from other people without understanding what they do or even if they do anything at all.
This is why I play console. I am just too lazy/busy/worn out to learn all that I’d need to know about that side of the gaming world. That’s why the steam machine interested me until I saw the price.
I’m afraid we will disappoint you further here, cause steam machine is just a PC with SteamOS (which is “just” an Arch Linux with few tweaks\changes). So all those issues described above and their workarounds also applied to steam machine.
It wasn’t an insult. I admire that you guys know that much about computers and software. Its like an alien language to me. Dunno why I was being downvoted for self deprication.
Dunno why the downvotes, but dude, if you ever Google how to do anything on your phone, then you’ve basically done the above already. Id argue a lot of us don’t know what we’re doing, we Google thing, someone has an answer, we do the thing, boop things work.
Just trying to make Netflix work on my Xbox head a bunch of issues where I did the steps above to get it to work. It’s all the same process, no matter what the hardware
Easy routine:
- Try a few different versions of Proton using force compatibility in game properties
- Turn off/on Steam Input
- Update Steam and my computer (or just restart if there’s no updates)
- Check ProtonDB for any launch options. Try a few of them
Medium routine:
- Check if anyone has mentioned anything on Reddit or Steam Community. Try their fixes which usually involves more launch options and/or config file changes
- Try Proton GE (this is only so low because I usually don’t have it installed and updated)
- Update graphics drivers
- Downgrade graphics drivers
- Try a different device
Last resort:
- Try Lutris or WineTricks with DLL override tricks
- Launch Steam using the terminal and actually debug the problem
Honestly I find that success rate is inversely proportional to amount of effort invested… so I just do the easy ones and give up if that doesn’t work lol. 90% of the time it ends up working though from one of those easy things. But if you’re truly desperate for a game to work and can’t wait for Proton to fix it, the medium and hard options exist
Switch to experimental, switch to proton Glorious Eggroll, check protondb, set proton_log and look at log files.
Not OP but first I check protondb to see if anyone else has the same problem, then I try swapping proton versions if noone else has the same problem.
Worst case scenario it’s my nvidia GPU drivers doing stupid shit, then I try updating my drivers or giving up and playing rimworld instead.
Most of the time just checking protondb works though.
Meanwhile, in Factorio:
rockSlayer is playing Factorio
rockSlayer is playing Factorio
rockSlayer is playing Factorio
rockSlayer is playing Factorio
“Must be heavily modding their next game”
Me playing my heavily modded SkyrimVR that starts crashing every 5 minutes once I get too far into a save
> Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas > Erin is now playing Fallout New VegasIs there a goddamn setting t9 disable the notifications? I looked briefly once and didn’t notice one besides just going offline.
Id love it if I didn’t get put online by default every time I open steam…
I’ve been invisible for months
Happens to me sometimes with Palworld. Playing nice, suddenly a crash. Restart, crash after loading the save. Restart again, freezes while loading. Restart PC, boot game, crash after loading. Restore older save file, crash.
Just palworld or UE5 games in general? Because I found a fix for that but it’s terrible and I hate it.
I don’t play many UE5 games, never had problems with Pseudoregalia or Outpost Infinity Siege, the latter being really heavy on resources.
I also thought Palworld was still on UE4? What’s the fix
The fix is so terrible that it comes with a warning only to do it if you’re absolutely sure you understand what you’re doing, along with the warning that I only know for certain that it works on a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU - it may work for other CPUs but I have no way to test that. It’s a fix I saw posted and ignored because, as the admin replied before locking said thread, it’s dangerous and there’s no reason it would actually work, but eventually independently found myself at: overvolt your CPU. Very carefully, just by a little bit. I don’t understand why it works, just that it fixed the regular crashes I had in Clair Obscur, Helldivers, and Palworld, and some of the crashes in Romeo Is A Dead Man (the latter also has other crashes related to the GPU). By all rights it shouldn’t work and suggests some very weird behaviour from UE5, but somehow it did. It comes with the side effects of needing really good cooling and potentially shortening the CPU’s lifespan, so it’s imperative you look for alternative solutions that aren’t stupid and dangerous first.
I am not savvy in hardware space, but I’m speculating it can, for some reason, affect agressive trottling behavior of your CPU when it peaks. This causes evaiding correct evaluation of set conditions for said trottling that usually surprises these games enough to crash when their load becomes too high to handle. CPU doesn’t turn into potato to save itself, thus games don’t find themselves in the situation when it downsizes resources ready to use.
Try undervolting!
IT’S A JOKE, but it could actually help because it could become a little more stable but nothing granted
if you DON’T know what you are doing DO NOT for ANY reason touch the voltage and just bear with the issue
Most UE5 games run like crap but they are not very prone to crashing in my experience.
Is the fix uninstalling the game?
I did have to verify integrity of the game more than once, so kinda like reinstalling rather than uninstalling
Each time having turned off one more mod to see if that’s the problem.
