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Fallout 3 crashes on ‘New Game’
I recently downloaded Linux to an old office PC (2012 Lenovo) for the express purpose of playing Fallout 3 through steam. I am not very familiar with Linux or computers, but I managed to get the game to start after much googling (downloading xlive.dll). Problem is now, once I press ‘new game’, the game immediately crashes.
I have no idea how to fix this. I’ve wanted to play one of my favorite games of all time for over 10 years, but compatibility issues has made this impossible. Can anyone explain to me how I can get this game to work in the dumbest way possible?
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How I got Fallout 3 with FOSE to work fullscreen in a widescreen multimonitor scaled setup at high refresh rates in Wayland with working alt tab.
Why is this needed? There are two big issues at hand as of this date post.
- Only fullscreen allows the game to play nice with high refresh rates and otherwise that fullscreen crashes upon alt tabing or mouse focusing on other windows/programs. (and old fallout mods that allow fullscreen like borderless windowed are poorly made in not allow high refresh rates and do not work with current FOSE and related anyway)
- Multimonitor setups with scaling under Wayland cause huge issues with game window scaling and resolution. I am using Arch, KDE, and Wayland with Proton Experimental.
Anniversary Patcher required for Fallout Script Extender (use the beta version) to work right now btw. One in game hit ~ (top left above tab on most keyboards) and type GetFOSEVersion to test if FOSE is working. should return 1 otherwise if it says a bunch of garble and 'command "GetFOSEVersion" not found' something is wrong with FOSE.
Make sure both fallout.ini and FalloutPrefs.ini have bFull Screen=1 to not contradict the Gamescope -f option for fullscreen. and of course in FalloutPrefs.ini iSize W= and iSize H= set to your monitor resolution. also remember bInvalidateOlderFiles=1 in both for mods to work. iFPSClamp=0 and and any other fps management configs or mods should be checked. vsync can be on or off for me.
If installed correctly FOSE should work even if you bypass the Launcher which is needed due to the sudden res and position change between launcher and game causing issues. Bypass it in terms of steam launch by changing the name of Fallout3Launcher.exe in any way just remember what is what and make backups before tbh. then change the name of Fallout3.exe to Fallout3Launcher.exe
Steam launch command: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HUD=fps gamescope -W [monitor pixel width] -H [monitor pixel height] -r [monitor refresh rate] -f --expose-wayland --force-grab-cursor -- %command%
You can use terminal instead if you want but some reformatting of the launch command required.PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 and --expose-wayland may not be needed. --force-grab-cursor was needed otherwise alt tabbing would loose and not allow a return of mouse focus in game which is an issue related to multimonitor setups I think. DXVK_HUD=fps just shows your current fps top right. Use to confirm high refresh rate function. Gamescope is what allows the game to not be messed up in terms of resolution and scaling in multimonitor setups with display scaling under Wayland.
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Steam suddenly not launching?
I just turned on my computer like I do every day. Ran apt update and apt upgrade and then went to launch Steam. When I try to launch it from the shortcut on my taskbar and from the Software Manager, nothing happens. Using the terminal shows me what's on the screenshot. Any ideas?
I tried deleting it and then installing it again, to no avail (even removed the .steam folder entirely after uninstall)
Software Manager also shows a broken icon?
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EA Game Launcher Refuses to Connect to App
OS: Ubuntu Budgie 25.10
CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X
GPU: RX 7900XT
RAM: 32GB
EA launcher installed through Lutris refuses to connect to the app.
It is always doing this, no matter what runner I do, no matter what program I use (I've reinstalled this launcher through Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic probably 30 times by now).
I've tried a variety of runners including wine, proton, and GE proton. When running it on Wine it gives a black screen do to some Gstreamer issue. But I see a consistent warning that is this through all the runners:
I've been fiddling with this for the past 3 hours, at this point I'm just tired. If I let the "Connecting to the EA App" sit long enough, it says it's failed to connect to background services and let's me try to manually update but ofc that doesn't work or do anything and according to every service ever, it's up to date.
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How to run The Sims 4 on Linux
My girlfriend loves playing The Sims, and makes little houses that we can live in, but does not like the EA App.
I installed Arch (btw) with her, and found this thread, which linked to The Sims steam community; I managed to get The Sims working through Steam, and I'd recommend that you just search 'Linux' on the Steam discussion board to see what is the most up-to-date thing in future.
I installed protontricks and then went to
"/home/<user>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1222670/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/" inside there were two numbered folders, I ran the EADesktop.exe app with proton tricks from the lower numbered one which updated and fixed the issue
I then ran protontricks-launch EADesktop.exe within one of the numbered folders, but this didn't let me update, and EA App eventually gave me an error about the "staging failing".
I used a file manager like lf or ranger (but genuinely anything will do ofc, but this just allows you to look down into directories easier without going through them all) which helped me find that there was another EA folder that had been created that had a EAStaging.exe or something like that inside it afterwards, and I ran that with protontricks-launch
I'm guessing what happened afterwards is that it moved the update with the numbers or whatever into the main EA folder up a level, and so the ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1222670/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop directory just had within it:
- EA Desktop
- VC
From there, you can go into the second EA Desktop directory (with all the .dll files in it, not the vc_redist) and then run protontricks-launch EADesktop.exe and you should be able to login just fine. From there, you can use Steam to launch The Sims as usual.
If the staging thing doesn't make the directory correctly, I reckon you should just be able copy the files in the highest (or maybe lowest) numbered update up a level after making a new folder called EA Desktop, which should do the work of the EA Staging.exe
Cheers to everyone in the reddit and steam threads, and have fun with The Sims! :)
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Genshin Impact now just close after like a minute of being open for some reason
no idea what's happening but I like tried to restart my pc but it didn't fix it
so I need to ask for help again since I've got no idea what's happening or how to fix it
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Frosty Mod Manager - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
I'm trying to mod Dragon Age: The Veilguard. There are some versions floating around on github that do support this as shown by this document. Due to Wine not respecting symlinks there is a "linux version" here on github. My issue is that the Linux version doesn't seem to recognise The Veilguard and the version that does runs into errors either starting up or with symlinks trying to apply the mod.
I'm running lutris and the Proton-GE 10-28.
Whats the best approach for a solution? Hope that someone smarter than me works this out?
submitted by /u/Th3casio[link] [comments]
There are issues (again) with NVIDIA driver 590.44.01: planet shadow rendering is broken in certain areas after the Earth update (01.2026) on Wayland.
Genshin Impact won't launch
alright so whenever I click start game nothing happens
I checked my drivers and they're all up to date and I don't have any anti virus or anything
I tried the "repair now" button and it didn't fix it
I'm using Nobara with wine cause it's not on steam for some reason so I'm a bit lost on what to do now so I just come here to ask for help
so if anyone knows how I could fix it please let me know
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I made a CLI tool for remembering and labeling packages
https://github.com/Asa-DB/pkgwhy
Please look into it!!!
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What causes this issue?
I recently ish switched from amd gpu to nvida,
nvidia is working fantastic generaly but i encounterd one problem if my display goes to sleep or pc goes to sleep i sometimes struggel to get vid output to display, the most easy fix is just rebooting is this fixebale? Or is it just something i have to live with on nvidia?
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Radium-Textures 0.0.3 Release: Windows Build And Better And Faster BSA Handling
Radium Textures can be found here: https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1660 or at the github here: https://github.com/SulfurNitride/Radium-Textures
What is radium textures? It's a Rust alternative to VRAMr.
As of right now it only supports MO2 and Skyrim, it supports both windows and linux.
Changelog is below:
Taking information I learned and gathered from my TTW Installer I have incorperated a better way to handle BSA files. There is no longer a need to copy any files and there is a dedicated size for the output when running it.
Texconv/wine has been fully removed and replaced with image_dds and directxtex so far in my modlist testing I do not notice any issues at all.
WINDOWS SUPPORT: IS UNTESTED I DO NOT HAVE WINDOWS NOR DO I HAVE A WAY OF TESTING IT PROPERLY.
Possible inclusion of wgpu for full GPU acceleration on BC7 textures in the future.
Fallout 4 support soon I swear ;-; and possible Vortex support if I ever get around to it.
Maybe at some point I'll make an updated BSA unpacker and packer? Not sure though. LMK if everything works, I'm still in the process of updating the readme.
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AMD Sends In A Variety Of Graphics Driver Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle
World of warships... Launcher launches but game will not
kind of unusual situation. I played world of warships years ago via the wargaming launcher. eventually I linked my account to steam for easy Linux gaming. well lately my son is into a steam game and to prevent conflicts I wanted to install wows via lutris or heroic to direct launch. I had that working will at one point on Linux I know. but for now I'm trying lutris with the wg install script which goes well. after initial install I launched it once but ever since I cannot get it to launch. not even the wg launcher. the wg game center is down in the tray, but I can't bring it up, I can right click and it will show world of warships but I can't launch it from that. going into lutris to launch it just does nothing either. what can I try next? I'd there a conflict because I have it installed via steam which still works but lutris version just will not
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SteamOS for AMD system?
Hello,
I'm looking for a Linux distro for gaming. I know that not everything is perfect on Linux yet, but it seems much more stable than Windows, and I’m honestly done with Windows at this point. What distro would you recommend for the most stable gaming experience? I want something very simple with a console-like feel, no bloat, just straightforward and stable for most games. I’ve heard about SteamOS. I know it’s not officially made for regular PCs, but I’m curious about how usable it actually is for most games. My PC is a full AMD system. My goal is to play my Steam games and Epic/GOG titles through the Heroic Launcher. I also want to play some older games using PCSX2. I mostly play single-player games, so anti-cheat measures don’t really matter to me. I'm interested in games like The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and others. Also, since my system is fully AMD, is SteamOS ready to use right out of the box, or would I need to install drivers or adjust settings manually? If it is ready to go, would the performance be similar to other gaming-focused distros, or noticeably worse? Thanks in advance for any suggestions! (I’ve checked the FAQ section, but it doesn’t cover all of my questions.)
Btw here's my system:
7500F
6650 XT
32 gig ddr5 6000 MHz
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Witcher 3 crashing every few minutes
At first I thought it was OptiScaler causing the issue, but it happens with and without it. I even tried switching to DX11 but the game still crashes after 5-15 minutes. I've also tried with ray tracing and Nvidia hairworks disabled. I'm using an AMD GPU btw. Could it be mangohud or something?
This happening to anyone else? How'd you fix it?
Specs:
9070 XT
KDE Plasma 6.5.5
CachyOS x86_64
Linux 6.18.7-2-cachyos
32GB RAM
Swap: 32GB
9800X3D
Steam, using Proton CachyOS SLR 10.0-20260101
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Crash after a screenshot
Hello, i'm playing Talos Principle Reawakened on Fedora 42, using Proton GE 10-28. Everything is going well except for this : Screenshots taken from within the game make it crash.
Normal behaviour : press a button to take the screenshot, a shutter sound is played.
I am talking about that because : - There are two ways to take screenshots, #1 is entering photo mode, #2 is using F12 steam shortcut. Both originally behaved the same way and had the same outcome. - A quick google led me to this https://www.dedoimedo.com/games/steam-proton-screenshot-sound-crash.html, which explains that disabling the shutter sound prevented the crash. I tried, and it did. The problem is, that parameter is only applied to the basic steam shortcut, photo mode still triggers the sound and thus the crash (btw F12 can still be used in photo mode, and this time, causes a crash).
I've asked on the game forum if there's a way to disable the sound in photo mode, in the meantime, i submit the crash report here, hoping you can id the root cause, and maybe find a fix. Thank you
these are from the reporting problem app
``` reason : wine64-preloader killed by SIGSEGV
cmdline : $'Z:\mnt\somni\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle Reawakened\Talos1\Binaries\Win64\Talos1-Win64-Shipping.exe' Talos1
executable : /home/user/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-28/files/bin/wine64-preloader
kernel : 6.18.5-100.fc42.x86_64
container_cmdline : /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/from-host/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/pv-adverb --prefix=/usr/lib/pressure-vessel/from-host --generate-locales --fd 12 --regenerate-ld.so-cache /var/pressure-vessel/ldso --add-ld.so-path /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --add-ld.so-path /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/lib/i386-linux-gnu --set-ld-library-path /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/aliases:/usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/lib/i386-linux-gnu/aliases --overrides-path /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides --exit-with-parent --subreaper --assign-fd=1=3 --assign-fd=2=4 --ld-preload=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so --ld-preload=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so -- /home/user/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-28/proton waitforexitandrun $'/mnt/somni/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/The Talos Principle Reawakened/Talos1.exe' ```
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Switching from Arch Linux, and recommendtions?
I've been a Linux user for about like 4 months and its been pretty good until recently I've been getting lots of crashes and random issues and I've been troubleshooting and reinstalling and testing different boot loaders and stuff. I think I'm just done with Arch. I'm looking to switch to something else like maybe Debian or something. Any recommendations for a distro that's lightweight? Also I'm not here to try and troubleshoot crashes right now I just wanna switch lol. I think i just need something stable and simple.
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