I am trying to run some games in Manjaro KDE Plazma. But nothing seems to work for me.
I am using lutris to install frostpunk and the error right now is Command exited with code 13568.
Using steam for games does not works too. When i am doing everything the same on virtualbox everyting works fine.
I even reinstalled the system for ubuntu and the same problem.
I use NVIDIA GTX 1060 and AMD Ryzen. can’t open games no mater if using Waylan,X11, non-free drivers or free drivers.
I’ve read the wiki arch about nvidia but it is so complicated and i ended up without the sceen on the system. I am out of ideas. Please help.
My guide included most points around Linux gaming:
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inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width
this is what i got from the console
System:
Kernel: 6.9.10-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.9-x86_64
root=UUID=fa34d2fb-99ef-490e-afca-5eabe3f70169 rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=648f5f6d-cfa5-4395-a0de-071a3c0c0fcb:luks-648f5f6d-cfa5-4395-a0de-071a3c0c0fcb
root=/dev/mapper/luks-648f5f6d-cfa5-4395-a0de-071a3c0c0fcb splash
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-ef9274f9-5771-4244-af38-7eb51854b892
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.4.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450-A PRO (MS-7B86) v: 2.0
serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: A.20 date: 09/21/2018
Memory:
System RAM: total: 32 GiB available: 31.3 GiB used: 2.77 GiB (8.9%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 256 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 64 GiB note: est.
Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: no module installed
Device-2: Channel-A DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 16 GiB speed: spec: 3200 MT/s actual: 1600 MT/s volts:
note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK32GX4M2E3200C16 serial: N/A
Device-3: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: no module installed
Device-4: Channel-B DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 16 GiB speed: spec: 3200 MT/s actual: 1600 MT/s volts:
note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Corsair part-no: CMK32GX4M2E3200C16 serial: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 2
level: v3 note: check built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 576 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x64 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB
desc: 2x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3751 high: 3850 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3850 2: 3089
3: 3850 4: 3850 5: 3850 6: 3650 7: 3850 8: 3633 9: 3850 10: 3850 11: 3850
12: 3850 bogomips: 92435
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP:
disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 545.xx+ status: current (as of 2024-06;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 1c:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c02 class-ID: 0300 temp: 33.0 C
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 res: 1440x900 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau wayland:
drv: nouveau x11: drv: nouveau
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.1.3-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NV136 device-ID: 10de:1c02
memory: 2.92 GiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 1c:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 1e:00.3 chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.9.10-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 18:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp24s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.66 TiB used: 1018.21 GiB (27.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B4QFXO7 temp: 33.9 C
scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0A80 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: A-Data model: SE800 size: 953.87 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 922.71 GiB size: 907.15 GiB (98.31%)
used: 117.28 GiB (12.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-648f5f6d-cfa5-4395-a0de-071a3c0c0fcb label: N/A
uuid: fa34d2fb-99ef-490e-afca-5eabe3f70169
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-ef9274f9-5771-4244-af38-7eb51854b892 label: swap
uuid: 4a441c73-b7b3-4c7b-ae52-530c8e0923bc
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 33.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 908
Info:
Processes: 350 Power: uptime: 4m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.49 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1547 libs: 470 tools: pamac Compilers:
clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.26
running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.35
I have just disabled the secure boot as in the steam tutorial. Same effect no start in game.
First things first,
Switch to X11 then switch to LTS Kernel 6.6 its available for easy install with a GUI from Manjaro Settings Manager.
Then also switch with the same GUI to Proprietary nvidia driver.
Where do you have your games installed? I hope on a ext4 partition.
Then activate Proton and activate the 2 switches as in my guide is written.
I recently got a issue with Proton Experimental, choose Proton 9 at the moment.
Ok so this seems working. Lutris Frostpunk works, Steam Worms Armageddon works. But the witcher enchanced edition on steam not working. So this means solution was to change kernel to last LTS (which I think should be default when installing Manjaro). I wonder why The Witcher not working (won’t gonna play this anyway, but curious).
Using Wayland seems making no affect on the games.
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Im pretty sure Kernel 6.10 works too, but maybe required additional nvidia commands in Grub specially in combination with Wayland and probably its needed to remove Splash and Quiet from Grub also.
sudo update-grub
is needed after changing this file.
Some game or program’s works better under Wayland/X11, as i wrote in my guide… there is no right or wrong, it depends on your hardware and the software for your individual use case.
Should work, check if you have “Steamworks Common Redistributables” installed in steam.
Yes, with the common redistributables, it started to work. Thanks for the help. It seems that there are just too many ways gaming can go wrong in Linux.
I am guessing the Proton Experimental was a week ago. When Manjaro released last update. No game would work for me. I thought it was Manjaro. I tested CachyOS, had issues there too. Booted EndeavourOS, there the game worked. Huh.
So I suspected Proton. I run Experimental. Still do.
The 2 games I tried, would load but froze at getting into the game. Both ESO and Sniper Elite renders in the “main” menu. That would freeze after a couple seconds and game would become unresponsive, had to force a shutdown of it, with pkill.
I don’t know how to troubleshoot that.
No problem 
Normally this stuff gets installed automatically with other games it works out of the box (I think i had this Redistributables per default installed from Pinball FX3 on my system). Why witcher has there problems idk.
There are endless Windows problems with games too, just look at random reviews from any Steam Game on the market, where people complain about game crashing under Windows and write a bad review 
I had Proton Experimental for around 3 year’s running fine, but after the second last stable update from Manjaro forced me to switch the Proton version.
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