First some tech specs out of the way:
- OS: Bazzite
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x
- GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB VRAM
- RAM: 32 GB DDR4
- Mesa: 25.2.6
Previously, earlier this year, I had issues like these with Oblivion Remastered. Since then a lot of updates have arrived on Mesa and I’ve been able to play UE5 games… relatively… well. At least, the graphical issues don’t exist anymore. Arc Raiders runs particularly well.
So I decided to reinstall Oblivion Remastered and see if that works without visual problems. But now I can’t even launch the game properly!
It consistently crashes 2 or so minutes after launching the game (any Proton version it’s supposed to work on, so from 9.0-4 and up, including Proton GE). So this happens when the shader precaching hits around 48%.
At first I thought this was an issue with UE5 shader caching, but after it crashes in the middle of shader precaching it can launch into the game’s main menu where… it crashes after about 2 minutes.
This is not an immediate crash; after about 2 minutes the game freezes (the game specifically. My system still works fine), it stays frozen for about a minute, and then it crashes with a UE crash report window.
I’ve been trying to look for solutions, but I’m only finding reports from earlier this year where the game would crash after an hour or at specific points in the game, nothing that is similar to what I’m experiencing.
Something that didn’t start with “make sure your PC is plugged in”.
As far as I’m concerned, ProtonDB is the very first place to look. Everyone else I personally know who game on Linux like me also know about ProtonDB, so it’s pretty standard knowledge.
You’re the first user that I’ve ever come across (so far) that assumes someone hasn’t checked ProtonDB when someone says “I’ve searched…” in the context of Linux Gaming… Much less on Lemmy.
And someone who was willing to try to debug with you. Won’t be responding anymore.
Jeez, sorry you had to go through that. No idea why some people are so rude out of the gate when someone tries to help out. If it’s any consolation, I think you did a great job dealing with OP respectfully, and your initial comment would’ve been very helpful I’d think.
It’s not helping if you didn’t read, and Scrubbles either didn’t read what I wrote or what the user on ProtonDB wrote. That is what irks me the most.
I specifically mentioned that I reinstalled Oblivion Remastered, which is literally the solution presented by that user’s ProtonDB fix.
You asked for help and someone took time out of their day to try and help. I’m assuming you’re not paying them to help you, and they have no other reason to offer help other than kindness, and you return that kindness with rudeness. All you needed to say was “I already tried that and it didn’t work, thanks for the tip though. Is there anything else you know of that I could try? I’ve done everything on ProtonDB with no luck” and you probably would’ve had more assistance. It doesn’t cost anything to be nice.
Part of the territory I guess, but hey thanks :) If you ever need help debugging a game on Linux I’ll be sure to help out! I guess I won’t recommend protondb first though?
I’ll definitely keep you in mind! Best of luck trying to help folks out in the future. I know it can be a minefield at times. I’m not super technically inclined but I’ve definitely done my fair share of helping strangers on the internet with other things in the past and I know how people can get. I’ve heard it’s especially bad with techie stuff.
ah we’re all learning together :)