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New 0.5.20 Lutris Version broke everything... (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I hate when you spend weeks getting games to work and then an update happens and everything is now broken. My copies of Simcity REFUSE to launch in any way and now i can't reinstall them either. All my other games i had to change the runner and redirect the .exe on each game. I may just install 0.5.19 and see if i can get them to start working again.

Apparently plenty of people had their game libraries ruined by this update as well and i lost all my hours of Simcity, so that sucks. Anyone else having issues with the update version of lutris?

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[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I had to change the runner (is that the term? my UI is in French) for half my games after the update. I suspect it just changed it on my existing game configurations for no reason.

I had stuff like proton complaining it can't run 32-bit prefixes, an obscure error saying it couldn't find gamemode... All fixed when I manually changed the runners.

Quite annoying when somzthing that just used ro work suddenly breaks everything.

[-] chippydingo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Of course I read your response in more detail as I am posting my own inquiry about this. I will take a look at the Lutris game-config settings and see what they are now. I wish I knew for sure what it was configured as prior to this update. Could you please elaborate on what you had to change from and what you changed it back to? Cheers.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

I don't have access to my machine right now, so I can't check exactly what worked for me. I didn't have the previous configuration either (the lutris scripts I used to install the games must have done this), so I just tried other options I had for runners. When I checked them they were all set on the last entry on the list.

I think for the 32-bit prefix error I had to choose a wine one instead (probably latest wine-GE).

For others that didn't show anything but had the gamemode error in logs, I switched to another proton version. I remembered being confused seeing two slightly differently worded entries that looked like latest proton GE, and using the other one worked.

[-] chippydingo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I checked it last night and it looks like Lutris switched the game to Proton-GE in the runner options so I am guessing that requires a bit more time to spool up in the background. Switched it back to a version of Wine and it was back to loading immediately. I am all for updates that fix things or add features but it is a bit annoying when settings get changed like that and it sets off the need to troubleshoot to figure out what happened. That said, I am trying to get my wife's Win11 machine working like it did under Win10 and I hate every minute of it and will take these kinds of things as the price of FOSS.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I think it's cause they changed the default wine or something. Had this problem a while ago and decided to use heroic launcher or steam

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I tried to use Heroic, but my copy of SimCity isn't a GOG game, so it wouldn't launch correctly. Heoric seems to have a much easier GUI though for installing games compared to Lutris, so no wonder so many people are switching over.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Then try adding it as non steam game, enable compatible and use proton-ge. Proton-ge works a lot better and manage to run apps at that proton didn't

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Luckily i was able to get it working in lutris, but now i'm curious to get it working in Heroic. Thanks for the tips, i'll try it out. If we can figure this stuff out now, we can help others who are bound to run into the same problem. I just wish you could find lemmy posts on search engines like reddit posts, but they are all hidden it seems.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think the search options needs reworked or might depend on what client you use

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Not with Lutris, but my Heroic Games Launcher broke Epic Games recently.

I had updated my system, which updated python, and this new version of python was not compatible with Legendary (the epic games cli or something which heroic uses to log user into the epic games account), and the games refused to launch. Pirated games and GOG still worked fine, though.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I came across this issue many times today while researching my issue. Seems both apps had a major update in the last week and screwed up a lot of our games. But i do appreciate them working on this open source software, just sucks when it breaks like this.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Alright after about 2 hours of reinstalling and trying different options i finally got Sim city 4 and 3000 unlimited to work. But i lost all my save data, so thanks Lutris for completely changing all the wine settings and making proton take over everything.

98% of my games are 32 bit, so the new version didn't like them. I had to manually change everything and try several different runners to get these to actually work. Some are on System 11, some are on wine ge-8-26-x86_64, and some are on GE-Proton to get them to launch again, But i finally have all 19 games working again. What a pain.

I turned off automatic updates on lutris as a result.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The saves should be in your old Wine prefix. If you didn't delete that, you should be able to copy them to the new prefix.

[-] Pfeffy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

You could have used Google and figured out how to find the saves in like 30 seconds....

[-] chippydingo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have only been running one of my GOG.com games via Lutris and it has been working like a charm till this weekend. I was initially concerned/confused when I clicked to launch that game from the link on my dock and it just didn't do anything. Eventually, the game loaded and seemed OK with no data loss but I was still rather confused about what had changed (I regularly update my Fedora 43 Workstation system, daily or every other day). Can anyone elaborate on the recent changes to how Lutris handles games? I was running Disco Elysium via Wine (I think) and while I can accept the 10-15 second delay in the game startup now that I know something is going on in the background, I would like to have a better understanding of what, if anything, I could change to restore the former configuration.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I did notice that one of the games i loaded took about 30 seconds to load when i first tried to launch it. I tried it again later that evening and it launched much faster. Think Lutris has to maybe reconfigure somethings now since they updated the main runners that is uses.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Just go back to the working version then?

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 1 week ago

Kind of a bad take honestly. Some of us want stuff that just work, especially for their gaming environment. I certainly didn't expect to spend half a day troubleshooting why my library suddenly didn't work anymore.

I am using Nobara and lutris was auto-updated through their updating tool. Also if it messed up the defaults in configurations, reverting might not even fix the problem.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's free software, ma'dude. You work it like any other software. When you have regressions, you go back to a working version.

You expecting everything to work all the time and being bitchy about is entitled as hell.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 1 week ago

Missed the point entirely, but okay. Note that I did troubleshoot it. I needed to know that it was a lutris problem to begin with.

Having trouble making something work is not at the same level as an auto-update messing up all of your library at once. All I'm saying is, if we want more adoption of free OSes for uses like gaming, the tools we have for it needs to be version-controlled so less technical people are not completely lost.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, you're now blaming the OS. You chose Nobara, and that's a "you" problem.

If this was running in Windows, you'd have the guarantees that everything works all the time? Same with MacOS, BSD, Android...it's software. You don't seem to get that.

If you're unable to debug and tell what's going on , and expect that to NOT be the norm...buddy, you're in the wrong place.

Go back to Windows or whatever you previously using and be happy...oh wait...you don't do that because of your higher standards.

[-] dupelet_comments@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Attitudes like yours are why it's never going to be the year of the Linux desktop...

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