Hey gang, I’m having trouble running this game. I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4070 Ti Super, 64GB DDR5 RAM, on a B650 motherboard. My issue is frequent crashing/freezing, meaning I can’t play longer than a few minutes at a time. I have tried re-installing the game, Steam, the entire OS, and then fully wiping the drives to remove Windows dual partition and only installing Mint. Then I was pointed to the drivers, so I tried updating using the ppa(?) driver availability as Mint only offered the nVidia 550 through Driver Manager. I tried each of the separate drivers, rebooting between each load, and still having the same issue. For reference, I was able to run through character creator and early intro of the Streetkid after many failed attempts. But then I get to the ride-along with Dexter DeShawn which does not have skippable sections and takes too long. So the length of that conversation is too long before the game either freezes or outright crashes.
Any suggestions are welcome, it’s really really annoying me and pretty disheartening after hearing how everything just works on Linux (other than competitive online games, which I don’t really play anyway).
Edit to add: I also tried the different Proton versions available through Steam, where I purchased the game.
Okay will do. And yes because I had to Force Stop it through steam rather than it crashing on its own I didn’t see any super helpful logs. I will try the command you sent when I am able!
When you run steam from the terminal, you want to use -d to get the debugging info:
I know this is revisiting an old post, I’ve been unable to game for some time. When I try this I don’t get any other information. However, I have seen a lot of other issues system wide that just make it feel unstable. Like when playing I will have system wide freezes not just the game freeze (unable to move mouse/keyboard is unresponsive/etc.), I’ve had issues in Firefox where pages will just freeze or be non-responsive and have to force close the program or again it’s system wide freezes. So I’m pretty sure it’s not Steam related and is just the whole OS. I can’t really get logs because when the system freezes my only option seems to be hard shut down then reboot.
In Steam, add this to the launch options games where you crash in order to enable logging to a text file:
(-from: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Proton-FAQ)
Then there will be a log file of the game in your home directory, named steam-$GAMEID.log.
When you’re reading that log, the error that causes the freeze should be in the end of the log somewhere.
If you just want to log the output of the Steam -d command (if you can’t find a crash in the proton log, for example) you can use tee, explained here since you should not just run random terminal commands you find online without knowing what they do: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tee-command-linux-example/
It’ll write the output of steam -d to the terminal so you can read it, and also to the steam.log in your home directory.