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fleebleneeble Aug 11, 2025

I'm losing my fucking mind.

I'm losing my fucking mind. - Reddthat

I have been able to run games whether it was Steam, GOG, or itch and now I can’t get shit to run. I don’t have the worst rig. I was playing Fo4, and now suddenly I can’t. I switched from a shitty Windows to Garuda. That was working wonderful, until I suddenly couldn’t get it to work no matter what Proton version. Then I switched to Ubuntu, same issue. Then Cachy, then back to Ubuntu, and now back at it again with Garuda. Still. The. Same. Fucking. Problem. I have scoured the net for answers and fixes to no avail and I feel like driving into traffic. I cannot get any Proton version to run ANY GAME at this point, not just the more intemsive ones. What the fuck do I do? Here are some specs: - Processor: 8 x Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40Ghz - Mem: 32 GiB RAM - Graphics Processor: Quadro K620 - Dell Optiplex 990 (7010 housing) - 245GB SSD, with additional 500GB HDD and 4TB external drive I have been able to seamlessly play all kinds of games for months, and then it just up and doesn’t let me anymore. I haven’t done anything to tweak shit out of whack. No matter how many clean installs and following instructions otherwise, this shit feels BROKEN and I’m LOSING IT. Someone help me please.

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DarkSirrush Aug 11, 2025

Are you deleting the prefix in between all of these changes? Because wine/proton prefixes are not resilient to changes, and even just updating to the latest version can brick the prefix.

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pontiffkitchen0

OP, I had a similar issue, and I had to blow way the wine prefix.

Someone else will have to chime in, but I believe it’s the “compat data” folder, but be careful because some games like to keep saves in there.

After you do that, as someone else mentioned, try GE-Proton.

Also I’m not familiar with your card, if it is older, I believe there is a certain gen where they stopped adding older cards to the newer drivers. A lot of the distros you mentioned are new, maybe roll the dice and if you feel up for it try Debian. If games boot, the. You either have to grab the open source driver or use an older version.

Also for the future (after you’re up and running) you shouldn’t skip the shaders. Steam crowd sources them from similar configs and build, and vulkan can generate them before playing so that game play is smoother. Direct 12 trys to generate shaders during game play, which results in stuttering.