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.
Is your Steam installed via Flatpak? If your Steam is Flatpak'd then it might be pulling in some extra Flatpak dependencies (e.g. Nvidia drivers) that Bottles could be using. If it's not installed by Flatpak then I'm puzzled, because Bottles shouldn't be using the base system for anything.
At the very least I would try uninstalling and reinstalling Steam to confirm that it is indeed what is causing it to stop/start working, and also to check if any other dependencies are coming and going alongside Steam.
It works even if steam is installed through my system package manager rather than flatpak, which I find even more puzzling.
I suppose steam is installing something alongside it that bottles is using. Can't figure out what it is.