What stopped working:

  • GzDoom (native, black screen after choosing .wad)
  • Orcs Must Die 1 & 2 (proton, either doesn’t launch at all, or launches with severe graphical issues such as the menu and buttons missing or the whole thing being pink and green)
  • serious sam tfe, tse; painkiller black (wine via either bottles or pol, extreme speedup every 5 seconds)
  • luxor 3 (bottles, crashes on launch)
  • hotline miami 2 (proton, crash on launch)
  • lego indy 2 (bottles, sound effects at 150% loudness)

most of these worked previously, but seemingly broke out of nowhere, unless driver or kernel updates wrecked thwm, but if that is the case i haven’t the faintest clue on how to troubleshoot that besides trying every previous kernel i can still download.

Device: Legion 5-15, 16gb ram, radeon 5 4600, nvidia rtx 3060 mobile, newest version of mint and newest LTS kernel. LUKS partition. I’ll add more info when i get home.

So, tl;dr:

  • how to troubleshoot proton games
  • how to troubleshoot wine games in bottles and pol
  • how to prevent games breaking out of nowhere in the future
  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the great and detailled report. Here’s an upvote for you :)

    Maybe you can try another prefix, like using Wine/ Proton 7.x instead of the current 8.x. Or try the GE-versions.

    That’s what helped me the most so far, but I didn’t have many issues by now.

    Also, those glitches sound like a faulty GPU or driver. Maybe try a live USB and launch a game from that with another distro like Fedora?

    Have you checked out ProtonDB if the games work OOTB or require some tweaks?

    • Dynamo@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thx.

      Changing prefixes either does nothing, or makes it worse which would be the case for the ones that do start.

      Probably not a GPU issue, as these glitches only occurvin the listed games.

      Regarding protondb (an winedb too i guess) the games are, at worst, silver rated.