I’ve just installed Manjaro KDE plasma, and followed the usual steps to getting proton working through steam (steam play > compatibility > enable proton etc.). However, when pressing play, nothing happens. I’ve done a lot of googling but nothing seems to work. I have a Radeon 5700xt GPU

Turns out the main problem seemed to be that all my games were stored on NTFS instead of ext4 (i felt pretty stupid when i figured that out :roll_eyes:), although i was under the impression linux could run files off NTFS file format without issue anyway, so i’m a bit confused on that front… But any…

Hello @jpringle1 and welcome :wink: Please take your time and read this first: [image] [HowTo] Provide System Information Tutorials information_source This tutorial is superseded by this one. Remember all Tutorials are wiki posts that can be edited by TL2 ( Trust Level 2…

[image] jpringle1: although i was under the impression linux could run files off NTFS file format without issue anyway, so i’m a bit confused on that front… Linux can read and write NTFS, yes. But Steam & Proton is a different story. It is not recommended to run on NTFS for games. You can r…

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megavolt 21 September 2021 02:20 2

Hello @jpringle1 and welcome

Please take your time and read this first:

Then provide some good information. Thanks

Also:

Is vulkan working?
```
vulkaninfo
vkcube
```
Some older games do not work well with vulkan. Try to add
```
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
```
to the startup options of the game. It can be possible that it works with OpenGL instead of Vulkan.