Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to Linux and gaming on Linux, and I'm encountering a problem. I have Linux Mint 22.2 with a GTX 1080, running the NVIDIA 580.95.05 driver, and my system is powered by an i7-4570 with 16GB of RAM. While Steam runs smoothly, none of my games are launching. They make an attempt to start but just shut down without showing any error messages. I've installed Proton (including Valve defaults and GE-Proton 10-25), Wine, Lutris, and the Vulkan packages. Steam acknowledges the Proton versions in its settings, and Vulkan detects my GPU, yet the games still won't start. I followed a setup guide, but I'm fearing I might have missed a step. Any guidance or suggestions on resolving this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a ton!
3 Answers
First things first, let's check if the NVIDIA driver is running properly. You can do this by entering the `nvidia-smi` command in the terminal. If it returns your GTX 1080 model and the correct driver version, then you're good. If not, you might need to reinstall the driver. Also, remember to check if Secure Boot is enabled; if it is, either disable it or sign the driver (MOK). You can find more information on that in the Ubuntu wiki. But hey, if everything shows up fine, it seems like your setup guide is solid for newer NVIDIA cards.
I had the same issue at first. It turned out that the drives I was using were formatted as NTFS which conflicted with Proton. I formatted them to ext4 and updated Proton, and everything started working. Might be worth checking out to see if that's the case for you!
Just to clarify, have you reinstalled the games from scratch, or are they being run from a Windows installation if you’re dual booting? Sometimes that can cause issues as well.
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