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Troubleshooting crashes when playing with Proton
By Ferris
If you're playing Dead Estate on Linux, there is a relatively high chance that you're experiencing seemingly random crashes. This guide has been made to try and help you fix the issue.
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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23 Jan, 2022 @ 9:49pm
24 Jan, 2022 @ 2:56am
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Why is the game crashing? 
Open file limit 
My problem is something else.. 
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Why is the game crashing?
To figure out why exactly the game is crashing on your system, copy and paste this setting to your game launch options

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

This'll generate a log file in your home directory, along the lines of
steam-$GAMEID.log
when you launch the game. Continue playing until you experience a crash, go to the end of the file, and have a look at the error.

Open file limit
I've so far tested the game on a couple of machines, and the problem has been consistent.

eventfd: Too many open files

A number of distributions ship with a too small open file limit, resulting in crashes. The steps required for increasing this limit on systemd distributions are pasted below.



To /etc/security/limits.conf add a line like

* hard nofile 1048576

In both /etc/systemd/system.conf and /etc/systemd/user.conf set

DefaultLimitNOFILE=1024:1048576

Restart your session

systemctl daemon-reexec

Restart your computer

Check that the limit is correct with

ulimit -Hn



For further details: https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/README.esync
My problem is something else..
If your problem is different, please do let me know. I'll do my best to help you (whenever I have time) and update this guide. I also urge you to report your experience to protondb[www.protondb.com]!
2 Comments
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no reason boner 5 Jan, 2023 @ 12:43pm 
don't play on linux ez fix
notunnocturnal 1 Jan, 2023 @ 5:36pm 
I'm having an issue with the game crashing when trying to get the true ending. In the third alternate floor, it's supposed to do a fake crash when you pick up the key, and it's supposed to pop up a fake crash message with this that appears in a windows popup. My issue is that every time I pick up the key, my game does the fake crash thing but then never closes and a crash message never pops up, effectively softlocking me. I have no idea what to do about this, and if you could help that would be really nice!