Most of my games are crashing on launch or freezing on start up.
I just re-installed manjaro.
Both steam-manjaro and steam-native are installed
I turned off/on vulkan shader ( Currently on) and am running proton 5.0 (changing to an older version didnt help) Forcing proton did not affect the issue.
I recall there being a silly little trick I had to do with a different launcher but I cant seem to find the post that fixed it.
Rimworld loads but doesn’t see subscribed mods, don’t starve runs, dungeons 3 freezes hard,
I had them all working on my last install, but I don’t remember what I did to do so, but it was the same issue then
What type of rig are you using? If you have hybrid graphics and don’t run steam on the dedicated gpu with prime-run it will cause games to run on the intergrated graphics and then usually crash.
If you use lutris to launch steam and hit the terminal icon it will show you all the logs while the game is loading and why it crashes
It looks like you have nouveau drivers installed. Ideally you want the nvidia 450 hybrid drivers which you can install with manjaro settings manager. The easiest way to launch steam games is with lutris and you can set the launch options there with prime render off load and feral gamemode. If you are using steam then right click the game and select properties. Open "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS " and type “prime-run %command %” and then ok. This will force it to use the nvidia card
I tried prime-run %command% on 3 games (age of wonders: planetfall; which I was playing before the format; Path of Exile and Batman AA ) Same issue where it says its launching and then nothing.
I don’t know why it hates me.
You need to install the nvidia hybrid drivers to get nvidia prime to work. On your output it says nouveau drivers which are the open source drivers. If you are gaming you really need the nvidia drivers
Warning: no matching device for config ‘video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime’ found!
Dependencies to install: video-modesetting
Installing dependency video-modesetting…
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/video-modesetting/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
Successfully installed dependency video-modesetting
Installing video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime…
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
warning: nvidia-450xx-utils-450.66-1 is up to date – skipping
warning: nvidia-prime-1.0-4 is up to date – skipping
warning: lib32-nvidia-450xx-utils-450.66-1 is up to date – skipping
warning: linux414-nvidia-450xx-450.66-6 is up to date – skipping
warning: linux44-nvidia-450xx-450.66-5 is up to date – skipping
error: target not found: linux56-nvidia-450xx
Error: pacman failed!
Error: script failed!
First things first. You are using a Kernel which is not available since MONTHS if I recall correctly (EDIT: 5.6 is apprently EOL since at least July…), so make sure you have a LTS Kernel if you’re not following dev for the kernel (and remove them before they don’t exist anymore), and make sure the system is up to date, because it is obviously not.
Then once all this is sorted out, install the hybrid Nvidia drivers.
Im pretty noob, where would I find a tutorial on how to do this, like what commands to run?
The installer USB I used would have been about 3+ months old, so that makes sense, I just assumed it would update once I got it up and running. Would it be easier to just reformat again with the newest one?
No need for tutorial, Manjaro should have graphical interface for everything, I don’t use XFCE but on KDE in the start menu, there is System Settings, and from there you can install Kernels, Video drivers, and from Pamac you can update the system.
I guess your best bet would be to update the system, which would automatically replace your non existent kernel with a meta package called linux-lts or linux-latest, this package automatically put you on current kernels. After all is up to date reboot make sure everything works, then find the System Settings interface which I’m sure exists on XFCE too, and install the hybrid video drivers.
from terminal you could update system like this: sudo pacman -Syyu