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EAC Seems broken on Arch? (lemmy.simpl.website)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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I recently installed BattleBit Remastered on Steam (uses EAC). Upon trying to run the game, I only get as far as a screen telling me to ensure EAC is installed. I tried their "repair EAC" option in steam, and there was no change (a terminal opens, blinks, and closes again). I tried a system update to see if that would help, but no dice.

Now, when I try to launch Apex Legends (a game which I play all the time), I see EAC loading extremely slowly, then it goes away, but the game never launches (though Steam still shows the title as running).

Is anyone else having issues right now (with an up to date system)? Has anyone else experienced this before?

Edit: Decided to format my OS drive and move to Fedora. Using the same steam library, both games are now working. Clearly some package ended up misconfigured, but I have no idea what or why.

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[–] jazztickets 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problems with Apex or Dead by Daylight on Arch here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you updated recently? I only started having issues today.

[–] _spiffy 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was playing Hunt: Showdown without issue this morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Someone with a fine taste in games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you having any problems with the overlay

[–] _spiffy 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't yet. But I did notice if I use obs VK capute it will crash sometimes with the game overlay, but only on launch and very rarely,

[–] jazztickets 1 points 1 year ago

All up to date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't able to get Battle Bit running on my Arch install either. I am able to run Apex though so probably an issue with Battle Bit. It doesn't really have Linux support since they are switching to FaceIt soon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you install Proton EAC runtime? On Void Linux glibc is "broken" so EAC wont work, I have to use the flatpak version of Steam and then EAC works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have, yes. I tried to uninstall it, but I get the error that it cannot be uninstalled as it is missing shared content. I tried deleting the EAC runtime from disk and verifying file integrity to redownload, but that didn't solve it, either.

I tried using the flatpak, but had the exact same issues, oddly enough (but using the same game library).

I am now trying an uninstall and reinstall of Apex Legends (since it was a known working game prior to all of this).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Decided to format my OS drive and move to Fedora. Using the same steam library, both games are now working. Clearly some package ended up misconfigured, but I have no idea what or why.

[–] wets0cks 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had the same problem yesterday with BattleBit Remastered, turns out I forgot to remove this line from /etc/hosts which was needed for Star Citizen a couple proton versions back.

127.0.0.1 modules-cdn.eac-prod.on.epicgames.com

[–] dobo99 -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use flatpak..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just switched from flatpak to rpm because of two annoying issues

Firstly steam kept forgetting my two other disks and I kept having to add them again via settings/storage

Secondly I couldn’t get steam to start at boot without messing about with other config.

Both these issues are solved by switching to the rpm/native version

Running Fedora 38 Btw

[–] dobo99 1 points 1 year ago

The first point was solved after the ui update and I never had to do with the second point..