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- Why do my games crash on start, run very slow or have rendering issues?
- My game crashes after a while but works fine without esync
- The game doesn't show any text
- Some games like Witcher 3 have missing textures/enemies
- Some reports say they made the game running by installing some software, how do I do that?
- How do I run Windows games I don't own on Steam?
- Games stored on my Windows partition (NTFS) won't start
Be sure that your system is up-to-date and that you are using the latest drivers available for your graphics card.
Take a look at the site for your game on WineHQ, you might find workarounds to make it run. If the site reports that it runs with Wine it could be a Proton specific issue or maybe a 3rd party DRM like "Denuvo" is making trouble here.
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Arch: Use Steam (Runtime)
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Solus: Disable the native-runtime in their "linux-steam-integration-tool"
Note:
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These are stable drivers if you want to use newer beta/devel drivers do it on your own!
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LLVM 7 or newer is requiered to fix the most graphic/rendering issues. If your distro still use LLVM 6 like Solus for example then tell them to update!
Arch/Manjaro/Antergos:
sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon lib32-mesa lib32-vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-tools
Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386
Ubuntu 18.10
sudo apt install mesa-utils
sudo apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-utils
Arch/Manjaro/Antergos:
sudo pacman -S lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl lib32-nvidia nvidia nvidia-utils
Ubuntu 18.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-396
Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396
Arch/Manjaro/Antergos:
sudo pacman -S lib32-vulkan-intel vulkan-intel lib32-mesa lib32-vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-tools
Ubuntu 18.10:
sudo apt install mesa-utils
sudo apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-utils
Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386
To check if vulkan is working execute the command: vulkaninfo
Here is an Example how it should look.
If you get: Cannot create Vulkan instance. Try to restart your PC. If the error still occur and you are really sure that all packages are installed, ask in our Discord for more help.
Most issues with esync are related to the limited amount of opened files. Before reporting issues with esync, check if the command ulimit -Hn reports much more than 4096. If not, you can follow these instructions to raise the limit.
Some games need Windows fonts to be installed. Since Proton version 3.16-4 this will be done for you automatically. If you are using Proton 3.7, try if switching to version 3.16-4 or higher fixes your problem.
To change the Proton version, go to the Steam settings and there to the tab Steam Play. You need to activate the option "Use this tool instead of game-specific selections from Steam". Then you can chose the Proton version in the drop down menu.
This is fixed since DXVK Version 0.90 and Vulkan 1.1.88. Unfortunately at time of this writing, you need beta drivers for Nvidia (396.54.09) and AMD users need at least Mesa version 18.3.
There are two ways to install additional software into the games prefix:
Make sure you have winetricks installed on your system. This package should be in your distributions repository.
Open a Terminal and use
WINEPREFIX=(Steam-folder)/steamapps/compatdata/(GAME-ID)/pfx/ winetricks
(GAME-ID) must be replaced with the game id for example 4000 for Garry´s Mod, you can use SteamDB to find out what id your game have.
(Steam-folder) must be replaced with your .steam folder loaction.
Here is an example
WINEPREFIX=/home/alexander/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4000/pfx/ winetricks
The two most popular currently are Protontricks and ProtonFixes.
Please read the instructions about those tools on their respective sites.
To run games which are not on Steam, you can use Lutris to run them with Wine. Lutris is a game manager which offers support for a lot of different compatibility layers/emulators, including Wine/Proton.
By default Linux mounts NFTS partitions only writable by Root. [WIP]