• M137@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    17 minutes ago

    Erik is now playing tModLoader
    Erik is now playing Terraria
    Erik is now playing tModLoader
    Erik is now playing Terraria
    Erik is now playing tModLoader
    Erik is now playing Terraria
    Erik is now playing tModLoader
    Erik is now playing Terraria

  • Routhinator@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 hours ago

    FWIW, this is a bug of some sort in Steam. My wife and I play together and I see her spam like this all the time, and her game is working perfectly.

    Our setups are the same, and I apparently never spam her. The one diff is my comp is on ethernet, and hers is on wifi due to it’s location.

    Wonder if it has to do with connection.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 hour ago

      That’s why I always set my presence to offline. Nobody needs to know what I’m playing right this moment.

  • treesquid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    3 hours ago

    That game needed the troubleshooting to happen in development. They’re probably just trying to get through Vault 22, that shit crashed constantly once you got to the lower levels. I was saving every 20 seconds.

  • AliasVortex@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    I make mods for RimWorld and my poor friends get subjected to this all the time (I’m really bad about remembering to set myself as offline and my friends find it more amusing than anything else) because the fastest way to test my code is usually just to close the game, and reopen it.

  • Zarobi@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Linux gamers too. Sometimes I come across a game like Assetto Corsa that launches for 0.1 seconds and then crashes, so I’m trying the routine list of low hanging fruit easy fixes in the hopes that one of them does the trick

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        4 hours ago

        Not op, but mine is

        • check protondb, try the last few recommended versions
        • search web for “game name + linux” or your distro
        • ask for help on relevant discords for either your game or your distro
        • NEVER trust any ai answers.

        So far that has covered the problems i ran into, but maybe someone has something to add?

        • DeLancre@piefed.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          4 hours ago

          Same here.

          And if there no protondb info or it have “platinum”, then start praying. Also, god forbid if you want something extra like FSR4 or install some mods. Then you mixing this things to whole “is that my hardware\software\proton issue or game genially bugged?”

        • P00ptart@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          4 hours ago

          This is why I play console. I am just too lazy/busy/worn out to learn all that I’d need to know about that side of the gaming world. That’s why the steam machine interested me until I saw the price.

          • DeLancre@piefed.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            4 hours ago

            I’m afraid we will disappoint you further here, cause steam machine is just a PC with SteamOS (which is “just” an Arch Linux with few tweaks\changes). So all those issues described above and their workarounds also applied to steam machine.

            • P00ptart@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 hours ago

              It wasn’t an insult. I admire that you guys know that much about computers and software. Its like an alien language to me. Dunno why I was being downvoted for self deprication.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          4 hours ago

          One thing to add to that list:

          When checking ProtonDB, cross-reference the environment variables with those listed on the proton-cachyos README. In my experience, most people are copy-pasting environment variables they read from other people without understanding what they do or even if they do anything at all.

      • Zarobi@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        5 hours ago

        Easy routine:

        • Try a few different versions of Proton using force compatibility in game properties
        • Turn off/on Steam Input
        • Update Steam and my computer (or just restart if there’s no updates)
        • Check ProtonDB for any launch options. Try a few of them

        Medium routine:

        • Check if anyone has mentioned anything on Reddit or Steam Community. Try their fixes which usually involves more launch options and/or config file changes
        • Try Proton GE (this is only so low because I usually don’t have it installed and updated)
        • Update graphics drivers
        • Downgrade graphics drivers
        • Try a different device

        Last resort:

        • Try Lutris or WineTricks with DLL override tricks
        • Launch Steam using the terminal and actually debug the problem

        Honestly I find that success rate is inversely proportional to amount of effort invested… so I just do the easy ones and give up if that doesn’t work lol. 90% of the time it ends up working though from one of those easy things. But if you’re truly desperate for a game to work and can’t wait for Proton to fix it, the medium and hard options exist

      • rbos@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Switch to experimental, switch to proton Glorious Eggroll, check protondb, set proton_log and look at log files.

      • Famko@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 hours ago

        Not OP but first I check protondb to see if anyone else has the same problem, then I try swapping proton versions if noone else has the same problem.

        Worst case scenario it’s my nvidia GPU drivers doing stupid shit, then I try updating my drivers or giving up and playing rimworld instead.

        Most of the time just checking protondb works though.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Meanwhile, in Factorio:

    rockSlayer is playing Factorio

    rockSlayer is playing Factorio

    rockSlayer is playing Factorio

    rockSlayer is playing Factorio

    “Must be heavily modding their next game”

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    6 hours ago
    > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    > Erik is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    > Erin is now playing Fallout New Vegas
    
    
  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Is there a goddamn setting t9 disable the notifications? I looked briefly once and didn’t notice one besides just going offline.

    Id love it if I didn’t get put online by default every time I open steam…

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Happens to me sometimes with Palworld. Playing nice, suddenly a crash. Restart, crash after loading the save. Restart again, freezes while loading. Restart PC, boot game, crash after loading. Restore older save file, crash.

      • Hubi@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Most UE5 games run like crap but they are not very prone to crashing in my experience.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        6 hours ago

        I don’t play many UE5 games, never had problems with Pseudoregalia or Outpost Infinity Siege, the latter being really heavy on resources.

        I also thought Palworld was still on UE4? What’s the fix

        • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          5 hours ago

          The fix is so terrible that it comes with a warning only to do it if you’re absolutely sure you understand what you’re doing, along with the warning that I only know for certain that it works on a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU - it may work for other CPUs but I have no way to test that. It’s a fix I saw posted and ignored because, as the admin replied before locking said thread, it’s dangerous and there’s no reason it would actually work, but eventually independently found myself at: overvolt your CPU. Very carefully, just by a little bit. I don’t understand why it works, just that it fixed the regular crashes I had in Clair Obscur, Helldivers, and Palworld, and some of the crashes in Romeo Is A Dead Man (the latter also has other crashes related to the GPU). By all rights it shouldn’t work and suggests some very weird behaviour from UE5, but somehow it did. It comes with the side effects of needing really good cooling and potentially shortening the CPU’s lifespan, so it’s imperative you look for alternative solutions that aren’t stupid and dangerous first.

          • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 hour ago

            I am not savvy in hardware space, but I’m speculating it can, for some reason, affect agressive trottling behavior of your CPU when it peaks. This causes evaiding correct evaluation of set conditions for said trottling that usually surprises these games enough to crash when their load becomes too high to handle. CPU doesn’t turn into potato to save itself, thus games don’t find themselves in the situation when it downsizes resources ready to use.

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 hours ago

            Try undervolting!

            IT’S A JOKE, but it could actually help because it could become a little more stable but nothing granted
            if you DON’T know what you are doing DO NOT for ANY reason touch the voltage and just bear with the issue