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Is protondb.com down for anyone else? (EDIT: nope it was just me, double-check your noscript settings, folks) (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Excrubulent@slrpnk.net to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've had a number of games mysteriously stop working on proton recently, like bopl battle, they severely lag the system on launch and sometimes need an REISUB reset to get my computer back.

This is new behaviour, these games have worked in the past.

Normally I'd go to protondb to see if there's any information about how to fix it but when I go there, all I get is a pink square loading animation in the middle of the page and nothing loads. It's been like this for the better part of a week for me at least.

Does anyone have any idea about what's going on? Is it working for anyone else?

Edit:

Thanks for the replies everyone. It turns out that my noscript plugin was the problem. I enabled scripts for protondb.com but not for protondb.pages.dev which wasn't showing up for me at first. I don't know why I didn't see it before.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Regarding your game issues: i had that the last 2 times my nobara (fedora) updated, where Proton games suddendly used my CPU for rendering out of the blue, lagging out my system so hard i had to reboot. Keep an eye on CPU load; if it's this reinstalling Mesa Vulkan probably fixes it. I'm running an NVIDIA card.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Oooh, interesting, so you're right that when I get the lag, there's a lot of CPU usage. Also there was definitely a system update before it started happening - although I can't say exactly when because I wasn't gaming on this system for a few days.

I'm on Mint 22.1 and I've tried uinstalling and reinstalling through the software manager GUI, and I've also tried:

sudo apt purge mesa-vulkan-drivers
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers

None of that changed the problem. I also made sure I restarted the system.

Am I doing that right? Are there any other steps that I'm missing?

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I used the Nobara Driver Manager to do it, so i can't really tell you how it works on Mint. It might be that youi have to reinstall your video drivers too, since those functions are closely related in my driver manager. FWIW, you might wanna look at the available renderer options for vulkan.

This is where i can reinstall Mesa and my Drivers, maybe it helps:

I explicitely chose Nobara because it's well documented that Nvidia Cards tend to cause issues, and Nobara makes handling the situation easy.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Okay, thanks, I'll take a look at my options there.

And I do also have an nvidia card. Thanks for the help!