Linux, Steam, Proton: Conan Exiles crashes at 1% progress

Hi folks.

I have a serious problem: Conan Exiles Enhanced crashes at 1% progress as soon as I try to start a local game or log into a server.

My System:

CPU: Intel Core-i3-6100

GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti; nvidia-driver-580

RAM: 8 GByte DDR4

OS: Linux Mint 21.2; Kernel Linux 5.15.0-177-generic

I use Proton in Steam.

Issue: The game freezes at 1% progress, the music stops, and the game crashes after some time. I’ve already tried all the recommendations from the ProtonDB, but it’s always the same: 1% and crash.

Please help me :slight_smile:

Gryswold

Do you have any mods installed?

No, no mods.

Did Nvidia push the newest driver to you? Should be 596.36 driver version.

Have you tried verifying files in steam?

I have verfied the files, and I have installed the latest driver as far as I know.

The game crashed at 1% progress.

Someone found a fix on the steam forums, use protontricks to install vc2022 to conan exiles proton profile.

I can confirm it works.

It’s also worth noting that both CPU and GPU are below the minimum specs (which call for a minimum of 10th gen I5 and 1070Ti). Maybe you have a way round that with Linux (which I’d guess is wasting fewer resources than Microsfot standard), but I think it’s worth considering.

vcrun2022 is installed.

You’re right, but the old version of Conan Exiles ran very well on this system, and I don’t have any issues with other games either.
With the old engine, I was getting up to 50 FPS—though in very complex structures, it would drop as low as 15 FPS. But it worked.

Cool. You know your system and what you can get out of it (and as far as I’m concerned anyone that uses Linux enough to know what they’re doing, knows enough to judge these things for themselves :slight_smile: ) I just wanted to make sure you knew that the min specs had changed, in case that turns out to be a factor. I hope you’re able to solve things and get it working again.

I actually wasn’t aware that the minimum requirements had changed. So, thanks for the information.
I’ll give it a try and see if I can get the game running—at least on extremely low settings.

I set the settings to laptop mode, but the game still won’t launch. Next week, I’ll have a different computer to test—it’s a bit more modern. We’ll see…