First of all, I don’t want you to help me with a specific problem. All the details in this post are just examples and I’m interested in getting a general understanding.
So I just wanted to play doom eternal, but when I press play on steam, after a couple of seconds the button switches from blue back to green with no game running. I checked protondb and saw that the game was gold rated, so it should run fine.
I checked the tweaks that people use and they suggest different proton versions. But no matter what I do, I basically get nothing. There are no error messages or log files. Same with other games I tried in the past.
So basically when a game does not work out of the box, I have no idea where to look for cues on how to fix it. Is there a verbose mode or something similar?
This gets mentioned far too rarely. Threw me off too, when I first tried to run Steam games on a Linux PC. This could surely be made more prominent in the interface or even largely automated, like on the Steam Deck.
it can be automated if you’d like. The toggle for that is in: Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility -> Enable Steam Play for all other titles.
