Forager crashes on start up (Steam Deck)

[meef]

I can't start Forager anymore.
I used to play this game on my Windows PC, and it ran fine, now I am on my Steam Deck and the game crashes on start up. After that I switched to the PC again and the game still crashes :/

Do you guys have a solution for the crashing issue on Steam Deck?

[Mirai]

I have no idea why it would begin crashing on Windows after this but here are some reports that I saw when I looked.

Instant Crashing and Uncentered
1 month ago
Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental, Changed configuration

Disabled Steam Overlay
Installs:Yes
Opens:No

Just switching the Overlay off was all needed

Proton Experimental crashes on startup. Proton GE used and it works, otherwise, just set `gamemoderun %command` and startup arguments.
7 months ago
Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental, Set launch options

gamemoderun %command%

Installs:Yes
Opens:No

Game crashes on latest Proton Experimental version.

8 months ago
Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE

Using normal proton caused the game to crash on startup. Using GE Proton fixed that

Taken from protondb.com.

[Brotkanzler]

i have the same problem. crashes on start. reinstall doesnt effect.

[Grontor]

same here, Game doesnt work anymore.

[Asorgis]

Last week I was still able to play it, but after the weekend it is always crashing after the welcome display. I´m even unable to send the bugreport and have to Alt-F4 the game.

[Mirai]

Originally posted by Asorgis:

Last week I was still able to play it, but after the weekend it is always crashing after the welcome display. I´m even unable to send the bugreport and have to Alt-F4 the game.

Sending a bug report would accomplish nothing, the dev abandoned this game long ago. That is, the game is "complete" but he doesn't care about it and is long gone.

You can refer to the ProtonDB exerts to see if any of that works for you.

[meef]

Originally posted by Mirai:

Originally posted by Asorgis:

Last week I was still able to play it, but after the weekend it is always crashing after the welcome display. I´m even unable to send the bugreport and have to Alt-F4 the game.

Sending a bug report would accomplish nothing, the dev abandoned this game long ago. That is, the game is "complete" but he doesn't care about it and is long gone.

You can refer to the ProtonDB exerts to see if any of that works for you.

this is so sad to hear :( I didnt know the DEV abandoned the game.

[That guy with the Spoon]

I started playing again yesterday.
Yea, the game initially didn't wanna start. I had to disable steam cloud save for the game in my steam library and then manually delete the config.txt files which is located in appdata so that the game would generate a new one.

With cloud enabled steam would simply redownload the same file from the cloud again instead of letting the game generate a fresh file.

[Brotkanzler]

yeah! That works fine!
Disable steam cloud save game, delete the config located at c:\users .. appdata\forager, start the game .. have fun.

Thank a lot @That guy with the spoon! :)