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Tadhg

25 Apr, 2023 @ 1:06pm

Games opening, running for a second and then closing.

Hello, I've been having a problem recently where certain games (I think it's just games with EAC) open, run for a second or so, and then close. Interestingly this problem seems to be getting worse, as roughly a month ago I was playing Persona 5 Royal without any problems however I tried to play it again today and I have the aforementioned issue. Furthermore I recall getting around this issue in Apex Legends by simply running Steam through the terminal, this too no longer works.

Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? I am running Artix Linux with Kernel Version 6.2.11 and have installed Steam via Flatpak. My PC specs are RTX 2070 SUPER and Ryzen 3700X.

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Marlock

25 Apr, 2023 @ 5:17pm

steam via flatpak may cause lots of issues

EAC is a PITA

Valve has begun offering the newest versions of Proton based on WINE 8.0 instead of 7.0, so this may cause regressions in some games

be careful to backup your savefiles from the Proton prefix if you're gonna try to revert to older versions like 7.x to fix this issue

Aoi Blue

26 Apr, 2023 @ 6:07am

Originally posted by Marlock:
steam via flatpak may cause lots of issues

EAC is a PITA

Valve has begun offering the newest versions of Proton based on WINE 8.0 instead of 7.0, so this may cause regressions in some games

be careful to backup your savefiles from the Proton prefix if you're gonna try to revert to older versions like 7.x to fix this issue

Yes, especially the stricter EAC profiles are total pain.

EAC doesn't recommend using these profiles are they are easy to fool with fake-signer algorithms and cause massive problems even for Windows users, but some devs don't seem to listen as they don't know how easy fake signer methods have become on dlls which only sign a weak hash, and thus all you have to do is use brute-force hash matching to use the method of simply tacking on an old signer that you've added brute-forced bits to match.