Hi all,
I have a really weird issue. I’ve been playing “Horizon Zero Dawn” on Bottles with wine-GE. It was working fine. At one point, it stopped working and started crashing after initial loading screen, without any detail in the pop up message. I tried to reset everything but the problem kept occurring.
I reinstalled steam and then the game immediately starts working again, even though it uses Bottles, not steam. Then I remembered that I uninstalled steam shortly before the game stopped working.
Why would this be happening? Anyway to make it work without having steam installed?
I use gentoo Linux with bspwm. I also have Hyprland installed but don’t use it for gaming. I have an nvidia 3060 Ti and the nvidia drivers installed. I have bottles installed through flatpak.
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It works even if steam is installed through my system package manager rather than flatpak, which I find even more puzzling.
I suppose steam is installing something alongside it that bottles is using. Can’t figure out what it is.
Most games sold on steam do a “does your account really own this” check. There is a “goldberg emulator” that I’ve heard deals with that, haven’t tried it myself.
I don’t think this should have to do with it, as I run the game outside of steam in bottles. I am running a GOG copy.
Recreate the crash and check the logs. Bottles should be writing logs, as well as the OS.
My guess is that Steam installs some extra dependencies which are also used by Bottles.
I’m not a Gentoo expert in the slightest, so I can’t really comment on how to find out what extras your package manager installs.
