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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?
16 Replies
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
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
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
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
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
the entire log is needed
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
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
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 =============
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
"name": "Proton - GE-Proton8-27",don't use GE-Proton, use Wine-GE-latest, which means you'll need to update the save path
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
sorry I don't know how to load the log, it says it was too big
so I am loading it in pieces
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
if it's too big, it should let you just delete all of the pasted text and send
message.txt
it would save your text dump as message.txtratty-blushOP•17mo ago
Ahh ok. Thank you
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
but yes, using Proton or GE-Proton won't provide very informative logs
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
I ended up reinstalling it just to be fresh, but the game will not even load now.
is there a reputable how to guide for installing this game?
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
install
vcrun2022 via Winetricks in Heroicratty-blushOP•17mo ago
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
Nevermind I think I got it working!
conscious-sapphire•17mo ago
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
SteamOS dynamically allocates VRAM on demand. setting it to 4GB is a Cryobytes thing, which is... no...
ratty-blushOP•17mo ago
Ahh okay. This is good to know.
Thank you
equal-jade•17mo ago
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
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)