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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
    1·
    1 month ago

    Mate, I can’t get games to launch 🥲. Steam games seem fine but I can’t launch GOG games through Heroic, including launching the game directly. I seem to get a segfault. I’ve updated the firmware, on the 6.14 kernel, drivers are loaded, card is recognised by the system. Games through Steam seem to work which makes it more confusing. Games that worked before no longer work.

    Any suggestions?

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      30 days ago

      Do you have any game you can launch through steam and gog/heroic?

      I suspect steam is automatically enabling proton and gog isn’t.

      It maybe that without proton it is trying to do software rendering, which fails.

      I haven’t played games in decades…but I do keep an eye on the state of things.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
        1·
        30 days ago

        I haven’t changed anything except swapping the graphics card and following some steps from a pinned topic on the Mint forums to get it working. It certainly says it’s using proton, and in fact I don’t have any wine versions installed.

        However, it is suspicious that every game I’ve tried to launch through steam (perhaps 4 of them) has worked fine, yet none of the games I’ve tried through Heroic have worked. It definitely seems like a problem there, but it’s also a problem if I launch a linux native game that was installed through Heroic both from Heroic and just directly from the install directory (which should imply it’s not Heroic related since it doesn’t have the same DRM connection as a Steam game).

        I’m going to install Lutris and install a game to see if that helps 🤷. I hope I can work this out, it’s actually the kids that use it and I have a promise to keep 😅

          • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
            2·
            28 days ago

            I think I’ve sorted it. I don’t actually know what the problem was, but I noticed I could download the same games from the GOG website and they worked fine. Steam games never stopped working. So must have been an issue with Heroic.

            I uninstalled Heroic and deleted the config directory, and the reinstalled it. Now the games all seem to work 🙂

            The kids will be very excited.