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harsh-harlequin

The Evil Within - I installed the game for the first time and it won't start.

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foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
Try with Wine-GE-Proton instead of proton experimental, it doesn't really share anything useful in the logs
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
The game doesn't start even with the latest version of Wine-GE Proton
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found.
Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found.
Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder.
what means that?
fascinating-indigo
fascinating-indigo•2y ago
Post the whole log
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
yep
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
I enabled "Use Steam Runtime" aswell
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
im updating to v2.10.0 and see if that fixes the problem
fascinating-indigo
fascinating-indigo•2y ago
Turn that off, use wine, delete the prefix directory, run the game, post a new log
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
https://www.protondb.com/app/268050 btw, protondb says we need to switch to proton/proton ge lol i still test that nw
How well does The Evil Within work on Linux and the Steam Deck?
Game information for Proton, Linux, Steam Deck, and SteamOS
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
you are using proton-ge, use wine-ge, the game should work out of the box
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
this just pops out
No description
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
accept that
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
yep
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
use wine-ge-proton (you can install that in the Wine Manager section in heroic)
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
game starts now!
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
disable steam runtime šŸ‘
quickest-silver
quickest-silver•2y ago
game works just fine with wine-ge-proton, deleted the prefix folder aswell xd
foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•2y ago
yes, when you change from wine to proton or from proton to wine it is recommended to delete the prefix šŸ‘

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