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FMaddict

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[SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

I have recently installed Arch linux and use hyprland most of my programs run fine but I wanted to play Football Manager 2024 and the game intantly crashes and I get an SI message to report a crash. Has anyone encountered a similar problem with other games and fixed it?

Last edited by FMaddict (2026-08-06 12:48:01)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

Post the error, add

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

to the launch options in steam and post the resulting log file in your home dir upon reproduction, your first stop for general compat should be protondb https://www.protondb.com/app/2252570 which suggests the thing should generally work well and if it doesn't then not in  a way that would be an instant crash.

FMaddict

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Re: [SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

Thank you I managed to work it out.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

How? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … way_street

Please lose a few words on what the problem and the ultimate resolution was and mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

FMaddict

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Re: [SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

Sorry it is true someone may need this. FM24 crashed because my GPU only supports Mesa's legacy hasvk Vulklan driver ANV driver didn't support hardware. Newer proton versions don't run hasvk. I pinned FM24 to Proton 9.0 in Steam's compatibility tool override (CompatToolMapping in Steam's config.vdf). I also made a back up of the orginal config files in case i need them. You can confirm what's happening with PROTON_LOG=1, which writes a log to
  ~/steam-<appid>.log.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Football manager crashing straight away after launching

There's stuff like DXVK Sarek which aims to maintain a somewhat updated branch of dxvk with old vulkan compat, Afaik it's officially integrated in proton-cachyos together with the PROTON_DXVK_SAREK=1 environment variable. So if you ever want/need to run a more up to date proton might give that a try via Protonup-QT or so, or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-cachyos-slr