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[SOLVED] Games not running (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have a problem with Borderlands 2 and Portal. If I run native version game crashes soon after launching. If I run Windows version with Proton game doeasn't launch at all. I tried solutions from ProtonDB but none of them worked. I'm new to Linux gaming so I'm not sure what to do.

I have Intel i9 11th generation CPU, Nvidia 1650 GPU and 16GB RAM.

Fix: I installed lib32-nvidia-utils. Now I can run native version of Portal and Windows version of Borderlands 2 with Proton 7.0-6 (haven't tried other versions of Proton).

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[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My usual 'shot in the dark' when someone mentions windows versions: Is the game data on a shared NTFS partition? If so, move it to a native linux FS like ext4 and try again.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

This is good advise. My husband just installed Linux as a dual boot on his system over the weekend. He was having trouble with games that worked fine on my system until we re-downloaded them onto the Linux drive. Then they worked fine.

[–] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't have any shared partitions.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Still worth a shot to mention.

Proton just doesn't seem to like any data on an NTFS partition, but the error message is ugly and buried so I mentioned it in all of these types of posts.