this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
13 points (93.3% liked)

Linux Gaming

22988 readers
870 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I’m nearly complete with this game but keep getting random crashes. I’ve tried switching Proton versions about 5 times now and it’s the same thing.

Is there somewhere I can go to check out logs to tell me what might be causing these crashes?

Running on CachyOS in Steam.

Update: so for whatever reason, it’s not happening after adding a command argument to the game to begin logging.

This was happening when I was trying to clear out the Redwood RV Park Ambush Camp. Sometimes it happened just sneaking around after a few minutes, and sometimes as long as me clearing out the camp and then would crash.

I just tried today so I could capture logs and was able to clear the camp and have been outside of the camp for a few minutes now without any crashes.

Up to this point, the game has been working with next to no issues. A crash here and there, but nothing like this one. Maybe something in this camp is causing an issue on Linux or with Proton? One difference in this playthrough was that I went an alternate route. Instead of going around the side by the dam, I went through the front and also went guns blazing instead of stealthing it.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The first place to start is journalctl (or /var/log/messages)

What GPU and drivers are you running?

Anything in Protondb? Seems like a stable game there, but maybe someone documented a similar problem. https://www.protondb.com/app/1259420

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I actually did check ProtonDB too and was surprised to see that as well. I searched for people with issues and didn’t find any in just a quick skim. But I planned to come back and filter for specific issues after checking logs.

My GPU is a RTX 4080 Super. The drivers are the stock drivers that come with CachyOS. I never installed any drivers for my GPU or any of my components, for that matter.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The latest (proprietary) NVIDIA driver is nvidia-580. I am not familiar with CachyOS, but it may be defaulting to the FOSS NVIDIA driver, Nouveau, which I personally have had stability issues with.

You can check the driver with the command lshw -c video or nvidia-smi

Another thing you can do is activate logging of Proton with the the launch option PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in Steam. This will dump a file into your home folder.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you. It looks like according to nvidia-smi, I am running the proprietary driver and it is 580.95.05

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Launch the game from terminal so you have any error output and/or exit codes