Alan Wake 2 Crashing

I am able to install Alan Wake 2 and the game boots up fine but after I select new game and Normal the game will crash and takes me back to the Steam Library.

Once instance says I need 16GB of ram and then I used a modified exe which lets me boot the game.

How can I get the game to run?

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:28 PM

please post a game log #:pushpin: Read Me First | Frequently Asked Questions

in the interim, it sounds like you need to do one of two things: run the game in desktop mode to authenticate via your browser or enable Prefer System Libraries

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:29 PM

Launching "Alan Wake 2" (legendary)
Native? No
Installed in: /home/deck/Games/Heroic/AlanWake2

System Info:
CPU: 8x AMD Custom APU 0405
Memory: 12.36 GB (used: 4.62 GB)
GPUs:
GPU 0:
Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] undefined
IDs: D=1435 V=1002 SD=0123 SV=1002
Driver: amdgpu
OS: SteamOS 3.5.7 holo (linux)

The current system is a Steam Deck (model: OLED) in desktop mode
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Ccolossal-harlequin Launching "Alan Wake 2" (legendary) Native? No Installed in: /home/deck/Games/He...

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:29 PM

the entire log is needed

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:29 PM

Software Versions:
Heroic: 2.12.0 Vegapunk
Legendary: 0.20.34 Direct Intervention
gogdl: 0.7.3
Nile: 1.0.0 Jonathan Joestar

Game Settings: {
"autoInstallDxvk": true,
"autoInstallVkd3d": true,
"preferSystemLibs": false,
"autoSyncSaves": true,
"enableEsync": true,
"enableFSR": true,
"enableFsync": true,
"nvidiaPrime": false,
"enviromentOptions": [],
"wrapperOptions": [],
"savesPath": "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Alan Wake 2/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Remedy/AlanWake2/adce1e98fb9c4eac8128f4108253f034",
"showFps": false,
"useGameMode": true,
"language": "",
"wineVersion": {
"bin": "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-27/proton",
"name": "Proton - GE-Proton8-27",
"type": "proton"
},
"winePrefix": "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Alan Wake 2",
"wineCrossoverBottle": "",
"enableDXVKFpsLimit": false
}

Game launched at: Mon Jan 22 2024 11:18:15 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Launch Command: HEROIC_APP_NAME=dc9d2e595d0e4650b35d659f90d41059 HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=legendary HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=epic DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR= DOTNET_ROOT= STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/.steam/steam STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Alan Wake 2" STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH=/home/deck/Games/Heroic/AlanWake2 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=2 STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=0 SteamAppId=0 SteamGameId=heroic-AlanWake2 PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary launch dc9d2e595d0e4650b35d659f90d41059 --no-wine --wrapper "/app/bin/gamemoderun '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-27/proton' run" --language en

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:29 PM

Game Log:
[cli] INFO: Logging in...
[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
[cli] INFO: Checking for updates...
[Core] INFO: Getting authentication token...
[cli] INFO: Launching dc9d2e595d0e4650b35d659f90d41059...
gamemodeauto:
gamemodeauto:
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() did not locate a running instance of Steam.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed
gamemodeauto:
============= End of game logs =============

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:30 PM

"name": "Proton - GE-Proton8-27",

don't use GE-Proton, use Wine-GE-latest, which means you'll need to update the save path

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:30 PM

sorry I don't know how to load the log, it says it was too big

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:30 PM

so I am loading it in pieces

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:30 PM

if it's too big, it should let you just delete all of the pasted text and send message.txtmessage.txt

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:31 PM

it would save your text dump as message.txtmessage.txt

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 7:33 PM

Ahh ok. Thank you

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 7:34 PM

but yes, using Proton or GE-Proton won't provide very informative logs

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 8:54 PM

AlanWake2_LOg5.09KB

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 8:55 PM

I ended up reinstalling it just to be fresh, but the game will not even load now.

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 8:56 PM

is there a reputable how to guide for installing this game?

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 9:07 PM

install

vcrun2022

vcrun2022

via Winetricks in Heroic

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 9:36 PM

Alright! It looks like it works. Is it possible to keep my UMA Buffer at 4G instead of the 256 that most of the tutorials say? @termdisc

colossal-harlequinOP•1/22/24, 9:49 PM

Nevermind I think I got it working!

Ccolossal-harlequin Alright! It looks like it works. Is it possible to keep my UMA Buffer at 4G inst...

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 10:10 PM

you can keep it at 4GB, but it does come at a cost - you're short changing your RAM when your OS/game needs more than 12GB for no good reason

nursing-lime•1/22/24, 10:10 PM

SteamOS dynamically allocates VRAM on demand. setting it to 4GB is a Cryobytes thing, which is... no...

colossal-harlequinOP•1/23/24, 3:43 AM

Ahh okay. This is good to know.

colossal-harlequinOP•1/23/24, 3:43 AM

Thank you

dry-scarlet•1/23/24, 11:56 AM

on steam deck you cannot run this game without setting vram to 512mb or lower, as the game "requires 16gb" for system ram on pc

dry-scarlet•1/23/24, 11:57 AM

its too bad the game isnt on steam, then we might have had a chance for it to have a steam deck profile thats pretty similar to consoles (aka it would fit in a regular steam deck memory footprint)

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