Hmm. Still running Ubuntu 16.04 here, and the 430.09 driver broke my system. I saw a message saying something along the lines of "PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key" before the screen cleared and the system hung with a flashing "_" cursor in top left corner.

I apt purged nvidia*, booted with nouveau driver, and then re-selected the 430.09 driver in system settings, but the boot failed in the same way again. I repeated that process, but installed the nvidia 418.56 driver that I had previously upgraded from, and things were good after a reboot again.

GPU here is a 980Ti.

Has anyone else here had similar issues?

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Don't bother reading this, I asked for help and then found the answer. Thanks.
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Hmm. None of the Windows games I've tried seem to run under Proton 4.2.2, though they all work under Proton 3.16-8 which is the version I was using previously. They all fail to start, silently, with one exception.

The games I've tried are:

Steel Division: Normandy 44
No Man's Sky
Company Of Heroes

When I try to run Company of heroes, a dialog pops up saying "Error: Game is not being run as a Known Company Of heroes product. Try again by launching game from Steam."

Setting the global SteamPlay default back to Proton 3.16-8, or leaving the default at 4.2.2 and overriding it per game back to 3.16-8 allows the games to start.

Has anyone got any ideas about what's happening? I'm not really convinced that Steam ever actually downloaded Proton 4.2.2.

Any help appreciated. I'm using mainline Steam client, not the beta.

UPDATE:
I can see a bunch of old Proton dirs under ~/.steam/SteamApps/common but there is no dir for Proton 4.2.2! I guess I need a way to force Steam to download it.

UPDATE 2: I found a way to force a download, using Library->Tools and choose to install "Proton 4.2". Will report back if this fixes the issue I posted about, but for now I am optimistic.

UPDATE 3: Yeah, all good now.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: fnordianslipThen they are gonna get spanked!
BTW, the installation problem seems to be fixed now :)

I'm interested in your (technical and gamewise) experience when you play it.

Ah, that may not be so fruitful.

I didn't really expect DFTM to be my cup of tea, as I've avoided similar games before. DTFM sounded quirky enough that I thought it would be worth a try, but it really isn't my kind of game. I therefore don't really feel that it would be fair for me to comment on it, gamewise.

Apparently I have played it for 6 hours, though much of that time was spent AFK with the game paused. After an early failure, I made it through the first 2 rounds, accumulating 9 and then 16 cages but started to lose interest when I needed to then get 25. At no point did I consider refunding the game.

I have had no issues running the game, since the installation glitch was fixed.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMaybe they're just not feeding you.

Then they are gonna get spanked!
BTW, the installation problem seems to be fixed now :)

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Nothing gets installed for me when I download the game on Linux. Guess they haven't ironed out the details yet.

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Bah! It just crashes for me when I launch it in Steam, big picture mode, or otherwise.
UPDATE: I just ran the executable directly in the shell and it seems to work. Not sure why launching it via Steam is broken, but the splashscreen and icon appear briefly then it goes away. Will retry running it from steam again next.
UPDATE 2: No, running it from steam is still broken. Running it from the shell directly still works. Just played through the first bit of the tutorial with no further issues :) Well, the Steam Controller isn't directly supported, but my XBOX-360 Controller is working OK.
UPDATE 3: I don't seem to be able to exit the game with an XBOX-360 Controller and even falling back to mouse use brings up a mouse cursor but leaves me unable to click on the Yes button in the Exit dialogue. It ignores a SIGTERM, but a SIGKILL does the job with extreme prejudice.

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Hmm. I had imagined that the next generation (the one we're discussing) of Steam Machines would be specified to work with Steam-VR and the HTC Vive, if there was any likelihood of Linux and SteamOS becoming supported for that technology in the near future. This news makes me wonder how likely it really is that Steam-VR support will be coming our way at all!

BTW, I'm a noob here, this is m first post but I'm not new to Linux or Steam gaming on Linux, and I have a beard but not of the neck type :)

Also BTW, would like to find other Arma 3 on Linux players to lure me into some kind of multi-player action, as I'm also a noob in such things.

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