Whilst I run Linux on my home server, I don't play games on that box, so I don't have Steam installed there and don't know what settings to tweak in Steam. My expectation is that the Linux version of Steam would install the Linux version of Factorio.

Your logs say that you are running factorio ...

Factorio has a native linux version. I would try that rather than using proton.

Edit: If you do want to continue to try proton, then I would also try opengl rather than D3D.


Hi Zavian,

May I ask how exactly I use the native linux version? The other day as a test I disabled steam play globally ...

The version your graphics driver reports is a wildcard number.


Hi Loewchen,

I reinstalled the driver and the Gfx card is no longer wild carded, but I get exactly the same error. I have attached the new log.

One thing to note, that while all my other games launch fine, for factorio I need to ...

Loewchen wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:42 pm Reinstall your graphics driver.

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give it a go tomorrow as it's almost midnight for me. Can I ask if reinstalling the graphics driver is the obvious next step or is that based on the attached log, as I saw a D3D buffer error of some sort.

Hi,

I've done some looking around and couldn't find any answers for this specific issue so I'm going to give all the details I can

Platform: Fedora 32
Kernel: 5.7.16-200.fc32.x86_64
Factorio Version: 1.0
Build from Log: 0.000 2020-08-24 14:01:27; Factorio 1.0.0 (build 54889, win64, steam)
Steam ...