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Non-steam game on Bottles crashes when I uninstalled steam? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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Hi all,

I have a really weird issue. I've been playing "Horizon Zero Dawn" on Bottles with wine-GE. It was working fine. At one point, it stopped working and started crashing after initial loading screen, without any detail in the pop up message. I tried to reset everything but the problem kept occurring.

I reinstalled steam and then the game immediately starts working again, even though it uses Bottles, not steam. Then I remembered that I uninstalled steam shortly before the game stopped working.

Why would this be happening? Anyway to make it work without having steam installed?

I use gentoo Linux with bspwm. I also have Hyprland installed but don't use it for gaming. I have an nvidia 3060 Ti and the nvidia drivers installed. I have bottles installed through flatpak.

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[โ€“] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most games sold on steam do a "does your account really own this" check. There is a "goldberg emulator" that I've heard deals with that, haven't tried it myself.

[โ€“] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I don't think this should have to do with it, as I run the game outside of steam in bottles. I am running a GOG copy.