Crashes at startup on Xubuntu 20.04

[jefflpearsonii]

The last time I played was 3 months ago have never had a problem. It has always worked flawlessly before but now it just crashes at startup wont run. gonna try proton as a temp workaround

[Tural]

Played fine yesterday, today it stop working: crash at startup. Xubuntu 20.04 too.

[ugly]

I have the same issue on Linux Mint 20.

I think I did get a mesa update and linux firmware update since it last worked a few days ago. Not sure what else was updated. I'm using an AMD RX570 with mesa from the Kisak Mesa PPA.

The game does work in Proton. So that's a workaround.

I also have the game from GOG and the expansions (Hong Kong and Dragonfall). I have the game installed through Lutris and they also crashes. However, If I use the start.sh script that GOG provides without going through Lutris, the game actually works. I played with the Lutris settings for this game and the game did work after turning off Feral Gamemode.

[Wintermute]

Same for me on Fedora 31. Black window and then nothing.

[Wintermute]

Now it works ok in my Fedora 31

[maximool]

Same for Debian 10. I tried to install the packages mentioned in the GOG page, to no avail.

[Redface]

I also just noticed Shadowrun Returns did crash after startup.
Opting into the Steam Beta does get the native linux game to run for me, on Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 both with Nvidia 455

[Sudsy]

If you are running Steam in Linux, go to the gear icon, and under "Properties" check the Check “Force use of a specific Steam Play compatability tool on the first screen, and select a tool! Photon works for me on Ubuntu 20.04.

[jefflpearsonii]

Yeah proton works but what happened to Linux native???

[jefflpearsonii]

Hmmmmm now native Linux works again dont know what happened but I like it

[Adam Beckett]

Reinstalled it (non-Proton 'native Linux version') today on Ubuntu 64-bit 20.10 Groovy, Xfce, AMD Ryzen 7, Nvidia 450.80.02. All the latest drivers/updates. Other games run smoothly. Incl. Unity Engine games. Incl. 32-bit games.

Game will not start.

At all.

Checked .config and error logs. Could not find a reason why. Still searching the internet forums ... sad panda.

[launacorp]

for me nothing of the listed "workarounds" will work. Tested every Proton version listed in Steam and tested beta too.

Game launches, sometimes I see the Main Menu for half a second, then black screen.
No PPA for Xorg or Mesa.

System: Kernel: 5.8.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5603
date: 07/28/2020
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 2192 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2119 2: 2110 3: 1893 4: 2191 5: 1918 6: 1926 7: 2047
8: 2195 9: 2184 10: 2073 11: 2058 12: 2073
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa
resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.38.0 5.8.0-41-generic LLVM 11.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
Audio: Device-1: Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] driver: snd_ctxfi
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: Creative Sound Blaster Premium HD [SBX] type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-41-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb
IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.86 TiB used: 1.32 TiB (46.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series size: 119.24 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: ST500LM030-2E717D size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 46.68 GiB used: 14.37 GiB (30.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 69.00 GiB used: 15.41 GiB (22.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-3: swap-1 size: 38.15 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 39.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1117
Info: Processes: 339 Uptime: 23m Memory: 31.30 GiB used: 2.27 GiB (7.3%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

[jefflpearsonii]

It is working natively for me on Xubuntu 18.04 now. It wasnt when I first made this post had to use proton. Am using paulo miguel dias mesa PPA. Havnt been back to 20.04 to try there again yet

[jefflpearsonii]

Was using kisak mesa ppa on 20.04

[launacorp]

nice to know. But i don´t wanna use a mesa ppa any more. I used that on LM19 (Ubuntu 18.04 Base) and after some time i couldn´t install mesa updates anymore because then i get a black screen after rebooting. This was at every mesa update since then. Timeshift was my friend and i learned that sometimes mesa ppa could´t be the answer to everything.