The game is Astroneer. It is installed with Steam, and runs with Proton 5.0-2. I can run this game in Mint, and Pop! OS. I also use Left 4 Dead 2 with Proton in CL without a problem.
Astroneer can start but right after the splash image it closes without an error message or anything else.
I have tried using the previous version of Proton (4.11-12) without avail.
How to at least see the terminal output and/or logs?
Or better yet, does anyone have a good idea of why this is happening, or how to fix it?
I opened a Terminal from the location where the game executable is located and tried to run it with “wine Astro.exe”. That called for Wine to be installed, so I had Wine installed. Once done nothing happened after. I ran the command line again (wine Astro.exe) but it would just bring me back to the white blinking rectangle (cursor)
Then I used this other command line:
steam steam://rungameid/361420
But it replied:
steam: command not found
To install steam use: sudo swupd bundle-add games
But Steam is installed. In fact right from the Gnome software app from Clear Linux. Would the Clear Linux system get messed up if I were to install Steam as it is suggested above?
Not all Proton enabled Windows games will work under Linux. That is not a defect of ClearLinux, or even a defect of Flatpak, or even a defect of Steam.
In this case, the Windows game crashes. It is likely incompatible with Proton. You’d have to send a bug report to Valve - this game might just not work under Linux at all - ever.
True. I understand that.
EXCEPT, I do play this game in 3 OSs: Windows 10, Mint 19.3, and Pop! OS 19.04.
Just between Windows 10 and Mint I have played it for over a year now. Funny thing is, it plays better in Linux, go figure!
Have you had a look at the Terminal Outputs, the answer should be there. I am just not that knowledgeable to uncover the mystery
As ahkok said in another post the forum is not a support service. You can’t really expect a developer to go through the terminal outputs just to find out why this particular game didn’t work on CL.
Of course you’re going to be disappointed, but give the developers some slack.
I don’t own these games, so, I can’t inspect the output that these games generate.
Plenty of Proton games work on my system, so, it’s likely something game specific that doesn’t work, and without owning the game, I can’t trouble shoot it.
