Hi there. Since I removed my Reddit account, I’m really happy to find a new home here. Hopefully beginner questions are allowed here.
Currently I’m trying to reliable get SE to work on Manjaro Linux. But this seems to be not an easy task. Currently it’s the only game, I have tried, which tends to crash on Linux.
I’ve never attempted this before, so I’m not sure how helpful I’ll be, but I did find the following resource that seems to insist it is feasible: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/space-engineers-linux/
Additionally, this Q&A looks to cover a more recent resource that could be helpful, to which the Github is located here: https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks
I will say the game runs fairly well on Windows, but if you play with a lot of mods, it regularly encounters problems. Historically speaking, I re-install and/or fix my SE installation many times a year. So if it makes you feel better, encountering problems while attempting to run the game is a fairly regular experience to some degree.
I have not much mods enabled. Only colored icons, from time to time “build info” when I have to check air leaks and some scripts like PAM and AutoLCD. The rest is Vanilla+DLC’s. I have hoped that I can remove PAM and can use Automatons for the same task, but this isn’t capable of automatically mining as of yet
If you like PAM, you may also enjoy taking a look at SCAM! It has a crazy cool, fully visual and interactive, in-game interface. You can control multiple drones with it to mine out asteroids.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2572154209
I will have a look in the evening. Many thx for the tip.
Well the good news is that almost all other games run very reliably in Linux. The bad news is that Space Engineers is a bit harder.
Space Engineers was actually a pain to get working on Linux initially (I started on Kubuntu 21.04), it’s easier now with newer versions of proton and drivers.
For me it also crahses… A lot? A bit? It can help to recreate the proton environment (I’ll have to look up the details, but I think it’s just to backup your saves then delete the proton folder)
When I first got Space Engineers running it was way more stable than it ever was on my Windows7 computer. Then over a year or so it got more crashy (several updates to space Engineers, windows, drivers etc). The I recreated the proton environment and it got Stable again. Now after some more updates to proton, Linux, drivers and Space Engineers itself it is sometimes crashy sometimes stable. I think it might be related to what I’m doing in my savegame… or maybe it’s just time to recreate the proton environment again. I have a few QoL mods plus Improved Rendering
What do you mean with Proton folder? Is this the game itself under “SteamLibrary” (in my case /mnt/games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/SpaceEngineers)? Or is there some other folder do clear?
Shamelessly copied from https://reddit.com/comments/11fvkw7
OP had success with deleting and recreating the proton folder, and it helped for me too. (Remember to backup your saves!) Also ProtonGE / Glorious Eggroll does seem to work better than vanilla Steam Proton. I have not tried using the plugin loader
You could also try backing up your wine prefix, and then delete it and get steam to regenerate it. This is because sometimes it gets messed up, and not fixed when validating game files or reinstalling the game. It’s important to back it up though, since it’s where all your saves and workshop items are stored. It’s at ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata. The folder name is 244850. Once you’ve done this, go to {prefix folder}/244850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/, and replace the SpaceEngineers folder in the newly generated prefix with the one in the backup (keep hold of the backup though just in case).
There’s also some troubleshooting steps in https://www.protondb.com/app/244850, generally I find that randomly copypasting some of the launch options and suggestions from here helps fix a few issues - but don’t do the ‘protontricks 244850 --force dotnet48’ It used to be the only way to get SE to run
Another thing you could try is installing the plugin loader (which surprisingly works on linux) and enabling some of the performance improvements plugins. I haven’t firsthand seen any crashes been fixed from this, but it’s worth a try, and some of the plugins are worth having in general.
Also: If you add -skipintro (after the %command%) in the steam launch options, you don’t have to manually go in and delete the video files.
Many that makes it a lot more clear, which folder is meant. I will try that and report later, if that works. Many thx. I will also try GE variant.
