Hello,
Lately, I’ve been trying to start games on Manjaro, after deciding to try gaming on it for the first time. That’s because, for some reason, Windows started misbehaving after a clean boot and it’s been an absolute pain to get it to run, so I figured I could try to make games run in Manjaro (before resorting to a VM). However, every time I try running some games, they crash with no error messages. Up until now, I’ve tried to run Doom Eternal, Dark Souls III and Dawn of War - Dark Crusade, all of them crash in the same way I’ve described. Death Rally classic as well, but for some reason, Steam doesn’t download any data of the game. Some games that do run are Half-life, Terraria, FTL and Star Conflict.
Anyway, I’m using the runtime version of Steam, with native-steam installed as well and it hasn’t helped at all. Whenever I try to load a game, it goes from “Launching” to “Precaching Vulkan Shaders”, which just ends up with an endless loading bar. It gives me the option to skip it, but it doesn’t load the game, just says “Running” and then it just crashes with no error. I’ve tried different versions of Proton, guiding myself with ProtonDB, but none of the recommended versions of Proton work.
I know this thread describes something similar, but I don’t want to make another clean boot of Manjaro just to play games.
inxi output:
Kernel: 5.10.36-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2201 date: 03/23/2015
CPU:
Info: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer rev: 0 cache:
L2: 2 MiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 64247
Speed: 2190 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2190 2: 2694 3: 3300 4: 2720
5: 1882 6: 2121 7: 3222 8: 3965
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 460.80
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c03
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 69
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.80
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.36-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82583V Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: c000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:150c
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: TP-Link Archer T9UH v1 [Realtek RTL8814AU] type: USB driver: 8814au
bus-ID: 13-2:2 chip-ID: 2357:0106
IF: wlp6s0u2 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.47 TiB used: 349.57 GiB (23.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS120G2G0A-00JH30 size: 111.8 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 109.48 GiB used: 24.92 GiB (22.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 21.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 274 Uptime: 2h 51m Memory: 19.45 GiB used: 5.33 GiB (27.4%) Init: systemd
v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1456 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04
My steam library is in /sdc, which is formatted in NTFS. I’ve seen a thread that point to the format as a problem, but since some games do run, I figure that’s not the source of my problems.