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Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What stopped working:

GzDoom (native, black screen after choosing .wad)
Orcs Must Die 1 & 2 (proton, either doesn't launch at all, or launches with severe graphical issues such as the menu and buttons missing or the whole thing being pink and green)
serious sam tfe, tse; painkiller black (wine via either bottles or pol, extreme speedup every 5 seconds)
luxor 3 (bottles, crashes on launch)
hotline miami 2 (proton, crash on launch)
lego indy 2 (bottles, sound effects at 150% loudness)

most of these worked previously, but seemingly broke out of nowhere, unless driver or kernel updates wrecked thwm, but if that is the case i haven't the faintest clue on how to troubleshoot that besides trying every previous kernel i can still download.

Device: Legion 5-15, 16gb ram, radeon 5 4600, nvidia rtx 3060 mobile, newest version of mint and newest LTS kernel. LUKS partition. I'll add more info when i get home.

So, tl;dr:

how to troubleshoot proton games
how to troubleshoot wine games in bottles and pol
how to prevent games breaking out of nowhere in the future

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How do you handle which GPU is used in which game? I would guess you have an AMD iGPU, and a Nvidia GPU for games, right? Maybe something along those lines got updated?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's correct, but i mostly let the laptop handle it, unless i know for a fact that a game needs/doesn't need the N GPU, in which case i either manually switch it over or (and this is the case for wine apps through bottles) i configure the program to only use the iGPU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What are you using to switch the GPU? Have you tried alternatives? EnvyControl for example.

Also, have you checked if you’re using ONLY Radeon-Vulkan for the AMDGPU, and not AMDVLK also?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No clue, since mint cinnamon (afaik) doesn't have a GUI for managing gpu drivers i don't know how to approach it.

[–] TerraRoot 2 points 11 months ago

Can you simplfy the issue by disabling the nvidia in bios?