Hello everyone!

TL;DR: CP2077 worked via Lutris yesterday. Doesn’t work today. No idea how to troubleshoot Linux, need pointers.

I’ve made the switch to Linux three days ago and I’m trying to figure out how to handle gaming. I’ve been recommended to use Lutris on my recent post about me switching to Linux and that’s what I did.

Not gonna lie, I watched a couple videos, read a couple wikis and then jumped in the fire, eager to play, so I don’t fully understand what I’m doing yet.

Yesterday, I told Lutris it could find my copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on my Windows disk. Filled the config panel as instructed by the youtube video (Linux Experiment) and launched the game.

Worked perfectly immediately.

Today, it crashes on launch with a RED error saying ‘Cyberpunk 2077 flatlined’.

I’m on Pop_OS and did some updates yesterday so I suspect it might be related?

On Windows I’d know how to troubleshoot on my own, but here I’m confused as to where to start the investigation. Could you give me pointers for me to go under the hood and figure out what’s going wrong?

Thanks for your help! :)

Summary of info: Pop_OS 22.04 up to date. Cyberpunk installed on different disk in a windows partition. Using Lutris. Need anything else? PC specs useful?

    • skizzles@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m using 2.0 with no issues launching.

      I’m on Ubuntu 22.04 using lutris. I also have my game installed on an ext4 partition. Too many different variables there to try to make any general assumptions on why it isn’t launching for them.

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Updates might be the culprit. Next to “play” in Lutris there’s a dropdown menu with “show logs” - try that and see why it fails.

    Anyway, you should just try installing the game on your Linux partition. I don’t remember the details now, but using Wine with games on NTFS partitions used to be discouraged.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    From what I remember Linux does t like writing to NTFS formatted partitions, that was the case a few years ago, but maybe that changes since the new NTFS code was merged into the kernel “recently”.

    • Silejonu@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s still the case as far as I know. I would highly recommend against using NTFS on Linux for anything else than simply storing files.

      • bgtlover@linuxrocks.online
        1·
        1 year ago

        @Silejonu @Natal @pete_the_cat then, how is it that usb keys and drives work with both windows and linux, once they have been formatted? Is there a different filesystem involved in that case? I, for one, didn’t have issues writing on a USB drive, is that an uncommon scenario?

        • Silejonu@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Reading/writing multimedia files (videos, pictures, audio, text documents…) on an NTFS partition works without issues. The issue arises when using one as a system partition (to install video games on, or worse, the whole Linux install). I don’t know exactly what’s causing issues, but my guess is metadata/permissions get messed up on NTFS when used on Linux.

  • Willdrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s a non-zero probability of linux borking your NTFS drive, try to move your stuff to a proper partition, also its far less likely you’ll find weirdo issues.

  • harrim4n@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Do you use the GOG version? If so, they changed something about the drm recently, you need to remove some files from the game directory. Then it’ll start working again. Let me check if I can find the reference to that…