Game is slowly crashing system.

I've recently completed an install of Mint and am currently playing Cyberpunk, however I am exeriencing periodic crashes of the game and system as a whole. Programs in the background will fail, however the game continues to function except I am unable to save my progress. Ultimately the game will crash to desktop, the background goes black and all icons are blank and I am left with no option other than a hard reset. I have included the log file for more information.

1423049311-lastPlay.log429.63KB

HeroicBotAPP•5/10/25, 5:40 PM

Wine-GE is rather old now (last release is almost a year ago) and thus might not work correctly. Please follow these instructions on using GE-Proton:

Head to the Wine Manager in Heroic, click the "Proton-GE" tab, and install "Proton-GE-Latest"
Head to the settings for your game(s) (icon on game card in library). In the "Wine Version" dropdown, select "Proton - Proton-GE-latest"
Rename your Wineprefix (path is shown in game settings), e.g. from
```
current-name
```
```
current-name
```
to
```
current-name_bak
```
```
current-name_bak
```
. To clarify: Rename the actual folder on your hard drive, do not change the option in the game settings.
Note: This will make game-specific configuration data (e.g. in-game settings or save files) unavailable. If this is an issue, let us know & we'll help you restore them.

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 9:11 AM

how do i go about restoring save files and such?

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 9:16 AM

This error message was also occurring during this time.

CommandMC•5/11/25, 10:50 AM

Never ever run Heroic as root. Not even sure how you managed this, considering Chrome will usually refuse to run if it detects that

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 11:12 AM

I installed it from the software manager

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 11:21 AM

Also what does chrome have to do with it?

IIhavesinned Also what does chrome have to do with it?

CommandMC•5/11/25, 11:49 AM

Heroic is an Electron application, meaning it's essentially a website running in a Chromium browser + a backend running in NodeJS (to do everything a normal website can't)

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 12:03 PM

How would I go about not installing it in root?

CommandMC•5/11/25, 12:05 PM

This isn't related to how you installed Heroic, just don't run it as the root user (for example by running it through

sudo

sudo

)

CommandMC•5/11/25, 12:05 PM

(if you're not doing that, I'd be a little confused on where that "as superuser" in the title comes from)

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 12:08 PM

Fair enough, as I said it was installed from the software manager. If there's a different way I'm all ears.

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 12:08 PM

And no I'm not running it through sudo

CommandMC•5/11/25, 12:11 PM

Mayybe this is some interaction with Flatpak? Anyways, shouldn't be the problem

It looks like the file it's mentioning there got corrupted. Could you try opening it using your regular file browser? I'd assume that'll also complain about something

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/11/25, 12:30 PM

I'll get back to you

Bbrilliant-lime Mayybe this is some interaction with Flatpak? Anyways, shouldn't be the problem ...

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/12/25, 10:27 AM

I've opened the file in my regular browser, it doesn't appear to be corrupted

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/12/25, 11:05 AM

I'm reinstalling, maybe that will work

dangerous-fuchsiaOP•5/13/25, 9:46 AM

Update im still getting the original problem with a fresh install and proton ge, here is the latest log file

1423049311-lastPlay.log69.32KB

Game is slowly crashing system.

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