cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41338733
Since a few weeks my Unity games are not working anymore on Steam (not flatpak) on Linux Mint.
I have tried Stick It to the Stickman, Olija and Dystopika. They all behave the same, with the audio starting playing fine, but still on a black screen. After that, nothing happens and even trying to switch window doesn’t work or is extremely slow, requiring a few minutes to have anything happening.
Adding the same games to another launcher (Heroic), makes them work a bit, but eventually they stop at some loading screen and remain there forever.
I am on the latest OS version, I have the latest proprietary drivers from Nvidia, I have tried switching Proton versions and my GOG Unity games all work fine on Heroic.
I don’t know if there are any logs I can submit, but I am all ears for any suggestions.
UPDATE: Solved! The problem was with the fractional scaling feature in Cinnamon. Once disabled, everything went back to work perfectly.
I’ve had trouble with this in the past. There are a few arguments you can add to the command. If you search protonDB, you might find some.
I think for unity games, setting the launch options to “PROTON_USE_WINE3D=1 %command%” helped
try to start steam (or the game) via the konsole and check for error messages.
you should also check protondb and look if you need a specific proton version if you haven’t tried them all or add some tweaks in the starting options.
good luck OP i hope i was of some help
I could start the games using steam steam://launch/appid_goes_here/Dialog, getting the same experience, but nothing was printed in the terminal and I cannot find any log files.
Launch the actual Steam client from a terminal is what they mean, not just the game.
Unless you’re playing with a controller, in my excperience using the flatpak version of steam made most issues go away.
Interesting, will try as a last solution.
