EA games launched through Steam are borked (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by headroom@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Ever since the issue with Apex not launching was fixed, I'm not able to play any EA games with Steam Proton.

Apex, which doesn't launch through the EA app flickers immensely on Fullscreen and Borderless Window. Flicker goes away when windowed, but the GPU utilization regularly goes down for a few seconds, dropping the FPS.

Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 5: I get an EA app screen that says "Preparing Game" which exits after about 1 minute (I think steam is timing it out).

Proton logs show some errors about not being able to load a few DLLs but research on the internet points to them not being relevant.

I have tried on all combinations of below:

Hyprland, KDE, and Gnome. All Wayland.
NVIDIA 545 and 550
Linux-zen 6.7 and 6.8
Arch Linux and NixOS
Proton 7 through Proton Experimental as well as GE 9.1 and 9.2

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[-] 6eLuD@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On NixOs you may need for var in $(printenv | cut -d= -f1); do export $var=$(echo ${!var} | rev | cut -c1-1000 | rev); done ; OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x20000000 gamemoderun %command% +m_rawinput 1 -novid (copy paste from Protondb)

Ea launcher probably don't like long envs.

[-] headroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I nuked NixOS so can't really test but doubt this is relevant. It was working before and Arch has the same issue.

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