First of all, I don’t want you to help me with a specific problem. All the details in this post are just examples and I’m interested in getting a general understanding.

So I just wanted to play doom eternal, but when I press play on steam, after a couple of seconds the button switches from blue back to green with no game running. I checked protondb and saw that the game was gold rated, so it should run fine.

I checked the tweaks that people use and they suggest different proton versions. But no matter what I do, I basically get nothing. There are no error messages or log files. Same with other games I tried in the past.

So basically when a game does not work out of the box, I have no idea where to look for cues on how to fix it. Is there a verbose mode or something similar?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    All I can tell you is that I played 49 games last year (exclusively on Steam, not counting the rest) and didn’t need to know anything to run them.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I played 50, and needed to tinker a little with one: Hogwarts Legacy. For some reason, I needed to tweak mmap limits for it to work properly. It still occasionally has issues, but it’s way better.