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New 0.5.20 Lutris Version broke everything... (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months 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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[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months 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 1 points 2 months 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.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months 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.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months 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.

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

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

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Just go back to the working version then?

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months 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 0 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 1 points 2 months ago

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

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