What’s your DE? You can select your prefered file picker with an env flag. I’m in kde and somehow it defaults to gnome picker by default. Maybe it’s the same for you and you don’t have the gnome packages and it hangs? You can also run heroic from the console and see if it outputs any useful info when hanging.
Spellforce 3, just picked it up today and it’s pretty easy to learn for the most part. It’s very much like warcraft 3 in gameplay style but looks great graphically. It’s also on sale right now on steam.
Try setting the game to exclusive Fullscreen instead of windowed or borderless maybe, or vice versa. This is a window manager issue, so start digging there. If it doesn’t happen with every single game, it could be a combo of game engine and WM.
It does happen with every game I’ve tried so far. Games are fullscreen by default, but it doesn’t seem to matter what the default is - it always happens.
I’m using KDE but I haven’t managed to find anything that is relevant for my problem :(
I’m on X11, I have an nvidia card and Wayland is way too buggy right now, even with the recent 545 driver.
As always, the Arch Wiki had the answer, I just didn’t see because it seems to describe a different issue. SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0 environment variable seems to do the trick.
I’ve been using arch exclusively for years now. Pacman and the wiki are just too good for me to go elsewhere. I’ve used Gnome and Kde both extensively and I just like Gnome more. Kde just has a lot of jank that doesn’t make it feel like a modern system imo. Gnome is a much smoother experience. Both work perfect for gaming though. Just started experimenting with hyprland this week and I’ve been loving it. It has some weird stuff with running games, but that just might be user error. I have friends who swear by mint too which I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread much.
Actually was trying to play it a day or so ago. For me at least, setting the compatibility version in the game properties to “Proton Experimental” worked.
from the bits and pieces I’ve read on the official Discord (ugh), they’re using two anticheat solutions. EAC is whitelisted, but their own one doesn’t support Proton yet. they’re actually working on changing that, supposedly, but it’s not their priority at the moment.
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