Steam games immediately crash
Not exactly sure if im missing something or doing something wrong. Im currently using an RTX 3080 and did install the nvidia build, installed and up to date with drivers, swapped several proton versions however no matter what, any game I even attempt to open just crashed immediately after hitting play in steam. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Can you provide a log? Either open
steam in the terminal or for games running in Proton, open their properties > general > launch options and add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% and start it up. when it crashes open your home directory and you will see the log there
probably should provide the log or copy and paste the output from the terminal to see what the issue iswow theres literally nothing to go on here lol
i see this is not on the internal drive. this drive is formatted for ext4/btrfs right?
No, NTFS, I was wanting to set up a dual boot with Windows and that drive is the one that hosts all my steam library so I can share between the two
yeah that might be why it isn't working 😄
NTFS and proton dont like each other
no idea how accurate this is
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
but you can try fiddling around to getting it to work
GitHub
Using a NTFS disk with Linux and Windows
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components - ValveSoftware/Proton
Lemme try installing something to my main drive as a test and report back
okay
That was it I think! Slapped the same game on my main drive and loaded in just fine. I have been trying to figure this out for the past two days and it was that simple. I was starting to think nvidia drivers were just broken or something
well sometimes nvidia drivers be a little weird on linux sometimes so thats fine to think, but yeah. Windows filesystem and proton don't like each other. No idea how well that guide works that I linked above if you still want to try and do all of that without reinstalling.
The other alternative is probably using the unofficial winbtrfs driver and making that drive btrfs (obviously losing data in the progress) but ive heard that driver is very unstable on windows at one time, but maybe it's better now. would def research that, but yeah. windows and linux dual booting with the same drive for games isn't exactly easy sadly since both OSes use different filesystems
The other alternative is probably using the unofficial winbtrfs driver and making that drive btrfs (obviously losing data in the progress) but ive heard that driver is very unstable on windows at one time, but maybe it's better now. would def research that, but yeah. windows and linux dual booting with the same drive for games isn't exactly easy sadly since both OSes use different filesystems
Yeah I will play around with it but at least I have something go off of now! Thats why I kept trying to dig into it, I figured if it was nvidia then there would be other reports of the same behavior which I could not find. Either way, thank you!
you will have to symlink the proton/wine prefix main folder
compatdata to an ext4 or btrfs filesystem
should be in SteamLibrary/steamapps/ delete the compatdata folder from the NTFS drive, make a folder on an ext4 or btrfs and then make a symlink on the ntfs drive.