Game crashes after titlescreen - Linux / Proton

[Waruchuu]

Heyho, I have been running into multiple issues over the course of my playtime but for multiple days now I can't even go into the actual game because it crashes after I select my game file to play on. It closes Steam as well
Video of it happening: https://youtu.be/NhuB5lTH7QA
I have already played the game quite a lot and beat it but after some updates, it ran a lot worse and after some it was better again but now it doesn't work at all anymore.
I tried redownloading, verifying the game files, installing the RE engine fix, ran it on Proton Hotfix, Experimental and GE 9.25 and even checked cleaned up my entire hardware and reapplied the thermal paste for my CPU but nothing helped me resolve it.
My nvidia drivers aren't the newest because they can't update because of dependency issues but I doubt that is what's causing this since I was able to play the game previously like I said.
I'm on an RTX 4060 Ti and a Ryzen 5 5600G, my OS is vanilla Arch with KDE. I'm really at my wits end here so I'd really appreciate any help or clues as how to fix this

[Waruchuu]

I also tried to set the graphic settings to lowest now and nothing changed. And as a detail to add, these stutters and freezes you see on the video there apply to my whole PC and not just the game

[Praesi]

Maybe an OS most Game Developers actual care about would help.

[zDioogo]

Probably the save os corrupted just like my case, no fixes found 🥲

[ᴸᵉˣ]

Game also crashes on my end. I noticed that when it crash, the Steam app force shut down itself. Tried reinstalling Steam but problem still occurs

[jonnewtu3]

Game doesn't appear to be very stable regardless of what OS you are on.

But for Linux itself it seems particularly unstable. When I was using Bazzite the game *would* but only if I didn't use Proton at all, but then it would crash randomly during gameplay.

But as noted, the game itself is just an unstable mess. On my end, I was ablet o play without issue for hours, stopped playing and put my device to sleep, and upon trying to play again would crash at the start of every hunt. As far as I can tell, the game didn't randomly update without telling me but the game no longer works. So I think this is just how the game is.

[Aldroen]

When did it stop working ? Did it work for you after the latest patch 05 that came out yesterday ?

[Casval Zem Daikun]

Postat inițial de Praesi:

Maybe an OS most Game Developers actual care about would help.

Maybe some functioning neurons would help.

OP, have you tried switching to Bleeding Edge Experimental? That's the only way I got it to run on my machine. Linux Mint Cinnamon, btw.

[Waruchuu]

Postat inițial de Aldroen:

When did it stop working ? Did it work for you after the latest patch 05 that came out yesterday ?

No, it has been like this for 4 or 5 days

[Waruchuu]

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Postat inițial de Praesi:

Maybe an OS most Game Developers actual care about would help.

Maybe some functioning neurons would help.

OP, have you tried switching to Bleeding Edge Experimental? That's the only way I got it to run on my machine. Linux Mint Cinnamon, btw.

Ty for the advice, I'll try that out

[Waruchuu]

I tried using bleeding edge but it changed nothing sadly.
I also had the suspicion that my save file might be corrupted since it only ever crashes after trying to load that but it crashed just the same after trying to start a new save file

[Aldroen]

Postat inițial de Waruchuu:

I tried using bleeding edge but it changed nothing sadly.
I also had the suspicion that my save file might be corrupted since it only ever crashes after trying to load that but it crashed just the same after trying to start a new save file

anything in journalctl after it crashes ?

[Waruchuu]

Postat inițial de Aldroen:

Postat inițial de Waruchuu:

I tried using bleeding edge but it changed nothing sadly.
I also had the suspicion that my save file might be corrupted since it only ever crashes after trying to load that but it crashed just the same after trying to start a new save file

anything in journalctl after it crashes ?

I just looked that up and I didn't know there were tools like this. I'll look into how to use it and then share the contents tomorrow after I get up. Ty for the recommendation

[mccloud]

Reset PC (if you are one of those that never shuts down his PC), verify game files on Steam (sometimes a patch will mess up the installation), if it still crashes reset router as well - I know it's silly but the net code seems to be weird, sometimes I would randomly not be able to go online, resetting the router fixes that (even though my Internet is perfectly fine otherwise).

Last hope is this : if you remember WHEN the game worked, use Timeshift to roll back your OS to that day and stop/pause the updates for now. If the game worked fine before and now it doesn't, chances are the OS did some update that broke something, because the game works fine on Mint.

If nothing seems to work, move to Mint. Arch is many things, but stable is many times not one of it. Game works on Mint with Proton Experimental since release, to this day. Or some other stable distro, not a rolling one.

[Aldroen]

Postat inițial de Waruchuu:

Postat inițial de Aldroen:

anything in journalctl after it crashes ?

I just looked that up and I didn't know there were tools like this. I'll look into how to use it and then share the contents tomorrow after I get up. Ty for the recommendation

journalctl --since "00:00:00"

replace the zero with time hh:mm:ss otherwise you will get a massive output from multiple days. I say the last 5 mins from the time crash occurs should be plenty.

also run dmesg to see if anything crashed on the kernel side of things, you would expect a driver failure there if anything but possibly journalctl will give you the same plus more.

If you want to share it here use https://pastebin.com/ since it will be easier than putting the whole thing on steam discussion or you might be able to figure it out yourself if the error is straight forward enough if any.

[Waruchuu]

I did just that now and here is the output
https://pastebin.com/ygrPU0h2 (stuff before, probably unimportant)
https://pastebin.com/24WsAXQz during the crash
I can only understand what is happening to a certain extent but the crash message
"Mar 13 09:09:05 PIKAPOWER kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 10069 (MonsterHunterWi) total-vm:22989524kB, anon-rss:4565060kB, file-rss:844516kB, shmem-rss:10216kB, UID:1000 pgtables:22944kB oom_score_adj:200"
seems to imply that I have an issue with ram or vram? My GPU has 16GB VRAM but it might actually be my ram. One of my ramsticks LEDs didn't turn on anymore but after checking the available memory via "free -m" it showed me I still had the full 16GB. I checked again just now and it only is 8GBs so it might be fully broken now.
I'll see if I can fix that or whether I have to fully replace it. But please do lmk if there is anything else looking suspicious in the pastes
And Aldroen ty for recommending journalctl, it will be really useful for pretty much anything I do in the future