I often have to hop off some of my projects, so i this section is to make it faster for me to recover the track of for what and the ideas behind the creation of this guide.

easy guide

Troble Shoot Start Crashes

have to work with these:

1.- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2609076838

2.- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2843537933

How to run steam with terminal
is simple just open a terminal emulator window and write "steam-runtime" as is

steam
or
steam-runtime
Dependent on what version of steam you have. (native, Runtime or flatpak)

Let me know what is the issue, it could be of help for people that visit the guide in the future.

but You can discuss in the collection that i linked on to get some help from the community [/h1]
i leave you with some information so you can start to seek for yourself:

[this requires you to learn some things, but this will set the bases that can help you to help yourself when you are on Linux]

How to understand the error

you are here!

So the guide takes less space and i can dedicate sections for clearness and use the same guide across other guides.

(how)

[write better]
sometimes isnt clear what is wrong at plain sight and there is no direct sign of what is happening, when there is no apparent code error to put google.

Write on terminal:

You will need the game id (application ID)

remember to always use the prefix "steam"

there are lots of ways to get this appi,

• The Shop URL (app/4000 )
  https://steamhost.cn/app/4000/Garrys_Mod/
  
  command
  
  steam://run/[appid]
  
  For example Garry's Mod
  
  
  steam steam://run/4000
  
  Run Steam from the terminal and see what the output is, you might find some clues.
  
  @Rokolell: "How I go about fixing wine/proton bugs:
  
  Find crash address. (Instruction Pointer)
  
  Check what dll is at that address.
  
  Do a trace for the component to check what function crashes.
  
  Check out what the code does.
  
  Also I would really recommend using a proton-tkg build using non staging wine , to check if it's a valve proton specific bug. I had this before and those aren't really worth fixing imho, as you can just use plain wine in proton."
  
  
  How to run steam with terminal
  is simple just open a terminal emulator window and write "steam-runtime" as is
  
  
  how to run steam games via terminal
  
  @DennisJJ4: "For launching games on Steam via command line, Steam used a URI-scheme for installing or launching games. You need to find out the 'appid' (application ID) for the game you are trying to launch (for example DOTA2 is 570) and execute a steam steam://run/[appid] command. (for example, using DOTA2, steam steam://run/570)"
  
  source:https://askubuntu.com/questions/710742/how-to-open-steam-via-terminal

You can also run proton in debug mode... just go to the launch setting of the game and use PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

and go to your user home directory and it will have the id of the game.log

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9ahd3k/how_do_you_get_steam_to_output_logs_for_proton/


https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/qg7poy/how_to_debug_a_proton_crash/

Play Garry's mod on Linux!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2843537933

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3159754499

i leave you with some information so you can start to seek for yourself:

[this requires you to learn some things, but this will set the bases that can help you to help yourself when you are on Linux]

How to understand the error

(is almost empty by now)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3287870137&preview=true

So the guide takes less space and i can dedicate sections for clearness and use the same guide across other guides.

(how)

[write better]
sometimes isnt clear what is wrong at plain sight and there is no direct sign of what is happening, when there is no apparent code error to put google.

When you open steam by terminal you can see the loading process and some leading information can appear when running games.

Write on terminal:

You will need the game id (application ID)

remember to always use the prefix "steam"

there are lots of ways to get this appi,

• The Shop URL (app/4000 )
  https://steamhost.cn/app/4000/Garrys_Mod/
  
  command
  
  steam://run/[appid]
  
  For example Garry's Mod
  
  
  steam steam://run/4000
  
  Run Steam from the terminal and see what the output is, you might find some clues.
  
  @Rokolell: "How I go about fixing wine/proton bugs:
  
  Find crash address. (Instruction Pointer)
  
  Check what dll is at that address.
  
  Do a trace for the component to check what function crashes.
  
  Check out what the code does.
  
  Also I would really recommend using a proton-tkg build using non staging wine , to check if it's a valve proton specific bug. I had this before and those aren't really worth fixing imho, as you can just use plain wine in proton."
  
  
  How to run steam with terminal
  is simple just open a terminal emulator window and write "steam-runtime" as is
  
  
  steam
  or
  
  steam-runtime
  Dependent on what version of steam you have. (native, Runtime or flatpak)
  
  
  how to run steam games via terminal
  
  @DennisJJ4: "For launching games on Steam via command line, Steam used a URI-scheme for installing or launching games. You need to find out the 'appid' (application ID) for the game you are trying to launch (for example DOTA2 is 570) and execute a steam steam://run/[appid] command. (for example, using DOTA2, steam steam://run/570)"
  
  source:https://askubuntu.com/questions/710742/how-to-open-steam-via-terminal
  
  How to enable proton log
  
  You can also run proton in debug mode... just go to the launch setting of the game and use PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
  
  and go to your user home directory and it will have the id of the game.log
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9ahd3k/how_do_you_get_steam_to_output_logs_for_proton/
  
  
  How to debug proton log
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/qg7poy/how_to_debug_a_proton_crash/
  
  
  Path Missing Dependencies
  How to know what dependencies are missing.
  (i am on it, for now i leave this here)
  
  "When downloading and installing games on Linux from sources like GOG or Steam, you may find that the game tells you that you are missing some ".so" files.
  
  This usually happens because digital distribution platforms like GOG and Steam only officially support Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint and the games you install expect to find Ubuntu specific libraries on your system. The ones that are missing have to be manually installed or downloaded and loaded before executing the program/game that requires them.
  
  1 - You can list the required dependencies via the "ldd <game_exe>" command.
  
  The missing library files will be marked with the "not found" label.
  
  You can list them only by using grep: ldd <game_exe> | grep "not found"
  
  2 - If you don't want to manually hunt down the packages for each library file, you can try using the steam runtime to run the game. It usually works.
  
  ~/.steam/bin32/steam-runtime/run.sh ./<gameExecutable>
  
  If you're still missing dependencies even after running the game through the steam runtime library, manually install/load them because steam only supports Ubuntu and expects to find Ubuntu specific libraries on your system.
  
  3 - Manually load the missing ones by downloading and copying them to a folder that you point to the game via "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path_to_lib_folder> ./ <game_exe>".
  
  If the game has a ".sh" file, you can add the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path_to_lib_folder>" line in it and then run "sh <start_script_name>.sh".
  
  You can also load individual ".so" files via "LD_PRELOAD=<path_to_so_file>"
  
  Whatever you do, do not create symlinks because that will eventually lead to dependency hell and you'll be wondering why nothing works all of a sudden.
  
  4 - If you want to manually install the missing packages, you can easily find the package name by searching for the missing ".so" file online. There are also various commands that you can use, depending on your distro.
  
  5 - Also, keep in mind that these packages usually come in 2 variations; one for 32 bit programs and one for 64 bit programs.
  
  The ".so" file names are usually the same so you'll have to figure out if your game/program needs the 32/64 bit one. You can do that via the "file <game_exe>" command as explained here.
  
  I hope this helps. :)
  " thanks to adevland for the Post
  (remmeber to disclosure that when you focus to much in gaming you forgot that you are on linux, and you need to know what command do what and how to fix them. i will.)
  
  "Also note that you can use export LD_PRELOAD="/path/to/lib.so;/path/to/anotherlib.so" to manually point to libraries. "