Hi All,
I get an infrequent error when playing balder gate 3 on Fedora Workstation 40. I run it in direct x11 as vulkan crashed all the time. Any ideas how to fix?
PS very new to Linux/GNU so let me know if you need any additional information.
FWIW I haven’t heard of anyone running the Vulkan version without any problems. Just use DX11 and stop worrying.
Crashed for me all the time. And now that I’m reading OP’s post correctly it seems to be the same for them.
Weird, I haven’t had any issues since I bought it on steam whenever the official release was.
Are you running it through Lutris? Steam with Proton? That error seems decidedly like a Wine specific problem, which Proton should have ironed out at this stage for this particular game.
*Unless you’re trying to play on hardware with incomplete Vulkan support. Then it’s a hardware support problem that is unlikely to be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.
I am running it through steam with Proton Experimental and i get the same through Proton 9.0
After further testing it appears when multitasking ans switching windows which explains why it happens so infrequently
Hardware details below:
Hardware Information:
- Hardware Model: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF Z390-PLUS GAMING
- Memory: 16.0 GiB
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-9700K × 8
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 2060
- Disk Capacity: 2.2 TB
Software Information:
- Firmware Version: 2417
- OS Name: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
- OS Build: (null)
- OS Type: 64-bit
- GNOME Version: 46
- Windowing System: Wayland
- Kernel Version: Linux 6.9.10-200.fc40.x86_64
Have you tried switching Proton versions? Also check protondb.com as people will often post solutions in their reports.
Are you on Gnome, KDE, or some other desktop environment? I know KDE Wayland and Nvidia do NOT play nice (presently).
Try using Protonup-QT to install the latest GE-Proton version on your machine, restart Steam and then set the game to run with GE-Proton.
Personally it usually works for me with Experimental, but GE is generally the best.
Install protonplus, then using it, install GE-Proton9-10 (or whatever is the most recent) for Steam. Then switch to using that within Steam (and Lutris, if you use that for other games, so it will use the umu-launcher instead).
See if that helps.
X11 or Wayland?
Try disabling the Steam overlay.
