I am unable to run trackmania as this message:
appears on screen I can close it with ok, it appears again, again I close it and then the game starts up but it runs extremely badly even in just setting up my account the game is extremely slow and it even froze my pc.
Do you expect us to buy you some?
no I want to allocate ram to it or figure out why the game is lagging sooo much, other players online claimed that this error message didnt impact the playability of the game for them so I dont see a reason why mine shouldnt work.
Well, you canāt āallocate ram to itā, itās done automatically, it will use any available. You can create bigger swap, but I donāt see how that will help.
Anyway, read some tutorials about how to post and info to give, because so far your post is pretty useless.
You cannot āallocate ramā - either you have enough RAM or you donāt.
That is where the second sentence comes in:
a pagefile is the Windows equivalent of swap space in Linux.
So: create a swap file (or a dedicated partition for it).
but: both variants are on disk and are thus not as fast as RAM is.
How come that on windows this game ran and here it cant at all (extremely laggy even in menus)? It must be something else ppl online said that this error message didnt make the game unplayable they said they could play normally and especially if Im missing just like 0.5GB this should really apply to me thats not a lot
No idea. 
Start by posting your system info:
inxi -Fanzy
then also show us your Journal log info:
journalctl -r |grep mania
maybe its a problem with lutris or ubisoft connect, I cant create a desktop shortcut fir trackmania from ubisoft connect
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.85-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=01a339bf-1b65-42a9-adec-e0ab1d401eca rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 info: frameworks
v: 5.115.0 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20DF004NMC v: ThinkPad E550
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20DF004NMC v: SDK0E50512 STD
serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20DF_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad E550
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: J5ET64WW (1.35 )
date: 10/31/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 31.9/47.5 Wh (67.1%)
volts: 12.2 min: 10.8 model: LGC LNV-45N1 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: not charging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2195 high: 2196 min/max: 500/2700 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2195 2: 2195 3: 2196
4: 2195 bogomips: 17567
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
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; IBRS_FW;
STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Opal XT [Radeon R7 M265/M365X/M465] vendor: Lenovo
driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2011-20 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 4
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6604
class-ID: 0380 temp: 48.0 C
Device-3: Chicony Lenovo Integrated Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-8:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b444
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.12 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris,radeonsi gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x36ed built: 2013 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: iris device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast
surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1616 memory: 7.5 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 4 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
device-ID: 8086:1616 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.1.85-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
status: active tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: 4080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b4 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: mld, NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-7:4 chip-ID: 8087:07dc
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 174.17 GiB (18.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A7E630
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: C4A0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 321.17 GiB size: 315.06 GiB (98.10%)
used: 174.11 GiB (55.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 58.3 MiB (22.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C pch: 48.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon
temp: 48.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.68 GiB used: 2.84 GiB (37.0%)
Processes: 200 Power: uptime: 2h 30m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 3.06 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1724 libs: 469 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 Compilers: clang: 16.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.34
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dub 27 12:36:30 winzar-20df004nmc krunner[1695]: 2024-04-27 12:36:30 [1468] [DEBUG] Hooks.cpp (43) : --- Overlay started --- (C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Trackmania\Trackmania.exe)
dub 27 10:27:36 winzar-20df004nmc plasmashell[3174]: wine client error:230: 2024-04-27 10:27:36 [ 972] [DEBUG] Hooks.cpp (43) : --- Overlay started --- (C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Trackmania\Trackmania.exe)
dub 26 19:49:30 winzar-20df004nmc plasmashell[1841]: 2024-04-26 19:49:30 [ 988] [DEBUG] Hooks.cpp (43) : --- Overlay started --- (C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Trackmania\Trackmania.exe)
dub 25 21:18:16 winzar-20df004nmc plasmashell[2241]: 2024-04-25 21:18:16 [1708] [DEBUG] Hooks.cpp (43) : --- Overlay started --- (C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\Trackmania\Trackmania.exe)
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Windows has an automatic paging file. Swap needs to be set up, and you havenāt done that. In addition memory usage may vary.
Did you mean to say āshouldnāt really apply to meā?
If you have a 1L bottle you canāt put 1.5L in itā¦it just doesnāt fit.
Well actually about the water bottle it seems like 1.5 liters fit for other ppl so why should 1.1 not fit for me is what im saying. I can try setting up swap later ill try to install through steam first see if that works.
Without any actual info I can only presume that you lack swap, and they donāt.
If you look closely, thatās;s 5.0 GB and not 0.5 GB.
Please only post text and not wasteful images. Thanks.
Your problem seems to be that you have insufficient Swap space configured in Manjaro (possibly none at all) - correcting this should solve your issue.
There is no comparison between Linux and Windows. 
Installed it on steam and when I click play it doesnt even run, but says that I played it.
There is comparison because on both systems the ram stays the same so it couldnt be a question of not having enough ram if it could run on a different system with the same amount of ram.
Iāll try configuring swap ty
There is no comparison, as Windows and Linux are totally foreign Operating Systems with respect each other.
I made no mention of RAM, actually, maybe it was the other guy - but, now you mention it - my personal opinion (backed by experience) is that even 8GB of RAM is insufficient for either Linux or Windows when a machine is intended for gaming.
Regarding your Swap: I strongly recommend a minimum of 8GB for a swap partition. Even then, you need to make sure you have enough available space on / (that itās not close to full). Creating a Swap file might also be an option (without a dedicated partition) but Iād likely recommend against it.
Good luck. Cheers.
Itās easier to create a swap file - no need to mess with partitions or having to create enough room to even be able to create a dedicated partition.
Performance wise there is no real difference.
Here are the easy to follow steps to create one in a few seconds.
sudo needed for all steps
swapon -a after you created it and listed it in /etc/fstab - or reboot
The poor performance of your game might have other causes, though ā¦
Im not quite sure if using swap will help if the game doesnt even want to start on steam I think there will be a different problem with the game like sure I can launch it on ubisoft connect but it shouldnt crash while im in the menus.
