Rocket League won't launch at all
Hi there, it's worked on my laptop in the past and actually ran decently but now it won't even launch. Any hints as to what I can change? Spent the whole day trying things out at this point. Thank you!
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harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
For some reason the configuration I'd previously used was with Proton Experimental. I remember it being a pain to setup in the past but the config I finally found worked without much stuttering at 30+ fps. For some reason a lot of users on ProtonDB are positive it works but mainly using the Steam version which is no longer accessible if you didn't alreeady have it in your inventory
Because I'm trying to launch it through epic games (and thus, heroic) I'm trying to use Wine GE as your guides states but nothing seems to be changing the outcome much, it always crashes at a similar-looking point in the logs (at least to my eyes)
Using other versions of Proton obviously doesn't work as it doesn't seem to have a steam id to latch onto. Still wondering why it worked before given that I never had the steam version to begin with
You're referring to these messages, correct?
Those aren't errors, Proton just doesn't log the actual errors (or anything, for that matter)
Try:
1. Switching to Wine-GE-latest
2. Deleting your Wineprefix
If that doesn't work, make sure your Wine dependencies and GPU drivers are installed
It'd also be interesting to know if other games (or just applications in general) run properly. Try something like
vkcube for exampleharsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Yes I was! Good to know Proton does that
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Forgot that I didn't post a wine log, here's the most recent one which froze my computer for 15 minutes
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
I've also since switched to the flatpak version of heroic following the instructions in the FAQ
"nvidiaPrime": true,
Memory: 8.21 GB (used: 6.05 GB)
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
ok great to know, thank you for your help btw! Amazing how well organised all of the info has been so far
Yeah I did imagine the lacking specs of my machine might be an issue. I read somewhere on protondb that it helped massively to turn off the pre cacheing of shaders through steam as it would freeze whenever launching the game for the first time, but I don't have the steam version and I'm using heroic anyway...
Yeah shader pre-caching isn't a thing here
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Just deleted wineprefix and reinstalling rocketleauge btw
ah ok
I was more referring to your lack of available RAM, 8 Gigs total is still fine
(if you want to be sure that this is an issue, check
dmesg for anything relating to OOM)harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
🤔
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Not a professional computer speak person but I imagine it ran out of ram?
Yup there we go, you're out of memory there and it (the kernel) found RL as the "best" application to kill
So try closing anything you don't need & check your favorite Task Manager for RAM-eating applications
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Ok! Glad that confirms it then. Is there any way like using swap that could help launch the game? Other than the obvious solution of upgrading my ram
Aye I'll try that first thank you
Well, 6 gigs of idle usage isn't normal, so I'd start there. You can of course still setup Swap (although it'll be a lot slower than regular RAM of course)
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Rocket league reinstalled, swap allocated and wine dependencies updated/installed. Tried launching but I get this error in the logs
An exception occurred when launching the game:
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/home/miles/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/dxvk-nvapi/dxvk-nvapi-v0.6.4/x32'
Trying to turn off DVXK-NVAPI but it says loading for ages, normal behaviour?I've seen that DXVK-Nvapi error a couple times now. Could you restart Heroic, then send in its log file ("Settings" in the sidebar -> "Log")?
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
This should be it
Hm, strange
Could you try creating this folder for now:
/home/miles/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/dxvk-nvapi/dxvk-nvapi-v0.6.4
Ah, I see the error in the code
...how did this ever work in the first place?harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Hahaha, it worked a year ago! I'm almost entirely sure it was on this same exact distro as rocket league and a few other games were still installed on this same laptop, I could be wrong though?
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
did mkdir at that directory and this is what it spits out, doesn't open anymore
Right, it'll now think that -Nvapi is installed
Downloading https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/releases/download/v0.6.4/dxvk-nvapi-v0.6.4.tar.gz and extracting that into the folder you created should work, I'll try to get a PR out for this issue soon™️
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
haha sneaky tm, but really thanks for all the help! Let's see if this works 😫
IT LAUNCHED
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
harsh-harlequinOP•2y ago
Still up 👍
Thanks you absolute legend! I’ll be testing for stability and configuring but as for my issue of the game not launching consider it solved!