Man, where are emojis when you need them…
It took you more time to write all this than it would to create a swapfile. 
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no, it preferably shouldn’t do that 
But the message in the picture in your initial post pointed to a lack of RAM and/or swap pace - that’s why we went to recommend that.
you posted, then withdrew the post - but you had problems
Apparently, the commands given in the Arch Wiki cannot be used as is.
remedy is found by reading man mkswap
or here:
LANG=C mkswap -h
Usage:
mkswap [options] device [size]
...
So, it appears the syntax is a little different - adapt it (the size goes last - and just as a number).
I didn’t test it - I only knew the other way,
which is using dd to create a file of the desired size
and format it as swap …
Here you go - with example.
(much too large for you - adapt the count parameter …)
It is really rare that examples taken from the Arch wiki do not work …
Not having enough RAM/SWAP might very well make things crash/close after a certain point.
With 7.68 GiB of RAM total and no SWAP … I find it very likely related.
…oh … and that was before noticing the original error is literally about RAM.
How is this even a discussion?
Buy more RAM and/or add SWAP.
Thats it. There are no other answers.
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Well, maybe you have to check the ProtonDB Page I did send you earlier, there is a guy played it 2 weeks ago with a Proton version.
3 weeks ago, even one with 8 GB Ram.
Read up about swap file
And even try my Swap-file script.
I would add 16 GB while you have that much free space on your Disk.
script
swap-activate() {
# swapfile
set -e
# set swapfile path
path_="/swapfile"
# convert diskspace to MB
diskspace="$(df --output=avail -B1 / | tail -n 1)"
diskspace=$((diskspace / 1024 / 1024)) # Convert GB to MB
while true; do
echo "How much MB should your swapfile have?"
echo "Free space is $diskspace MB"
echo " Enter here: "
read -r i
# number check
if ! [[ "$i" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "Memory size must be numbers"
continue
fi
# Diskspace check
if [[ $i -ge $diskspace ]]; then
echo "Not enough disk space to create a swapfile of ${i} MB."
continue
fi
# lesser then 1
if [[ $i -le 0 ]]; then
echo "${i} MB is a invalid value."
continue
fi
break
done
echo -e 'Do you want to use \e[38;2;242;29;0m'"${i}"'\e[0m MB?'
echo "Press y are Enter to continue"
read -r r
if [[ "$r" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] || [[ "$r" == "" ]]; then
# Trap signals to perform cleanup actions
cleanup_() {
if swapon --show | grep -q "file"; then
sudo swapoff $path_ || true
sh -c "sudo rm $path_"
fi
}
cleanup_
# build swapfile
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$path_ bs=1M count="$i" status=progress || {
echo "Error creating swapfile"
sleep 5
exit 1
}
# set permission
if sh -c "sudo chmod 600 $path_"; then
echo "chmod 600 $path_"
else
echo "Error changing permissions"
sleep 5
exit 1
fi
# create swapfile
sudo mkswap $path_ || {
echo "Error setting up swap"
sleep 5
exit 1
}
# aktive swap
sudo swapon $path_ || {
echo "Error activating swap"
sleep 5
exit 1
}
# config swap
sudo sh -c " cat <<'EOF' >/etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
vm.swappiness=11
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=66
vm.dirty_ratio=3
# sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=100
# sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=60
# sudo mkinitcpio -P
# sudo sysctl --system
EOF
"
# set fstab
if sudo sh -c "grep -q $path_ /etc/fstab"; then
echo "Entry already exists in /etc/fstab"
else
sudo sh -c "echo \"$path_ none swap defaults 0 0\" >> /etc/fstab"
echo "Entry added to /etc/fstab"
fi
else
echo "swapfile cancelled.."
fi
# show swap
if [[ -e $path_ ]]; then
swapon --show
fi
}
swap-activate
~ inxi -Dj ✔
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 180.81 GiB (19.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A7E630
size: 931.51 GiB
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 28.3 MiB (0.7%) file: /swapfile
~
Steam still game still doesnt run also got this error
Check your Mem/Swap status with htop while you run Trackmania… most gaming systems use 16Gbyte since 12 year ago… its possible that 8gbyte+ 4Gbyte swap is still not enough.
Close background applications can helps with performance.
Use different Proton versions, like the experimental proton.
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Add more ram and swap the drive for an ssd. Setting up swap may prevent crashes but since you’re using a 5400rpm spinner drive it will slow the machine down when swap is used.
Trackmania requires at least an AMD Radeon R9 270X which outperforms your R7 M260 by 888%, so I guess, swap or no swap, this isn’t going to work.
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I would have suggested zram … all the more so if its a spinner disk.
Now that you mention the devices …
Are we sure its even using the AMD?
I think it might be using the intel iGPU.
The preference may be for the AMD … but that will need to be handled.
(DRI_PRIME ?)
On top of that … its using the old radeon driver.
As a southern islands card its pretty old … but new enough to have GCN and thus the ability to enable amdgpu.
Ok so trackmania is runing now(using the 4gb swap, I found cscs guide online and used it without problems Manjaro Freezing BAD - #6 by cscs) from ubisoft connect its still is quite laggy but its playable at like 10-20 fps, after setting the settings to the lowest possible. I would like to learn more about how to optimize it. Im gonna try to install openplay and from it the plugin tweak to reduce render distance and increase fps.
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