Azulia Posted July 14 Report Posted July 14 Hello, and thanks for whoever helps. I had my pc running a windows OS until not too long ago, but now I am running the Bazzite distro of Linux. I've been having a less than smooth gaming experience, since I had no prior knowledge and that was kinda expected. However, I can't even open the game! It was troublesome enough finding out I HAVE to play games on Steam's big picture mode, but VS isn't even opening before it crashes! I miss playing this game ;-; Is there any benevolent soul out there willing to help out a fellow gamer? Please?
Diff Posted July 14 Report Posted July 14 How'd you install VS? Separately, what's this about HAVING to play games through Big Picture?
Azulia Posted July 14 Author Report Posted July 14 I tried installing through the app center (Bazaar), through a flatpak command on the terminal, and also using Lutris with the file that's downloadable on the page for linux installs. The thing about having to play games on Big Picture is that for some reason they crash in a short time if I don't
Diff Posted July 14 Report Posted July 14 5 hours ago, Azulia said: I tried installing through the app center (Bazaar), through a flatpak command on the terminal, and also using Lutris with the file that's downloadable on the page for linux installs. Either bazaar or flatpak command should be good and proper for the Bazzite. Should be the most painless and easy route. What does the terminal have to say about your situation if you run flatpak run at.vintagestory.VintageStory 5 hours ago, Azulia said: The thing about having to play games on Big Picture is that for some reason they crash in a short time if I don't Now that's incredibly odd. Do they crash in Big Picture-in-Desktop mode? Or do they only run smoothly in Big Picture in Gaming mode?
Azulia Posted July 14 Author Report Posted July 14 Quote Either bazaar or flatpak command should be good and proper for the Bazzite. Should be the most painless and easy route. What does the terminal have to say about your situation if you run flatpak run at.vintagestory.VintageStory The terminal returns a similar message to what my system log when I try to run VS. I copy pasted the result in the attached .txt file. Quote Now that's incredibly odd. Do they crash in Big Picture-in-Desktop mode? Or do they only run smoothly in Big Picture in Gaming mode? The crashes are in desktop mode. I considered just reinstalling the OS so it would run in Game Mode, but I don't have a backup pc to use for troubleshooting in case something goes wrong with a fresh install. And the information I found online points to Game Mode only being accessible if I install the specific version of bazzite that boots like that. Since I always used my desktop for more than just gaming, I asked the tech guy to install the desktop version. I just didn't know better at the time. VS crash.txt
zero2005 Posted July 14 Report Posted July 14 I couldn't get the game to run with flatpak, I'm on CachyOS but I do have some experience with the desktop version of bazzite. I would just download the tar, unzip it, and run the game from directory using run.sh; that's how I do it. Not sure why you're using big picture with steam, are you sure you installed the right version of bazzite? My guess is you possibly installed the steamdeck version?
Azulia Posted July 19 Author Report Posted July 19 Quote I would just download the tar, unzip it, and run the game from directory using run.sh; that's how I do it. Consider me an absolute linux iliterate. How should I use "run.sh"? Explain as if I was using your PC and you're afraid I'll brick it.
Diff Posted July 20 Report Posted July 20 Download the .tar.gz file from the client area. This is basically a zip file. Open your file manager, find it in your downloads folder, right click it, extract it. Inside the folder, there should be another file called "run.sh". In an ideal world, you should be able to just double click that "run.sh" file to launch the game. You may need to right click it, go to Properties, go to Permissions, and enable "execution" permission of that file. Then you should be able to double click it to run. If even that doesn't work for some reason, crack open a terminal, drag and drop run.sh into it, then hit Enter.
pippo_ Posted July 20 Report Posted July 20 You might have something funky going on with your Bazzite install, for me it worked perfectly right out of the gate. Maybe you can post your specs so we can see if theres anything funny going on. Additionally as you said you are linux illiterate, might be worth checking if you installed Bazzite to a hard drive, or are running in the installation environment.
Azulia Posted Thursday at 04:01 PM Author Report Posted Thursday at 04:01 PM On 7/19/2026 at 10:38 PM, Diff said: Download the .tar.gz file from the client area. This is basically a zip file. Open your file manager, find it in your downloads folder, right click it, extract it. Inside the folder, there should be another file called "run.sh". In an ideal world, you should be able to just double click that "run.sh" file to launch the game. You may need to right click it, go to Properties, go to Permissions, and enable "execution" permission of that file. Then you should be able to double click it to run. If even that doesn't work for some reason, crack open a terminal, drag and drop run.sh into it, then hit Enter. I did the download + extract method to try it out. Turns out that when I run the run.sh as an executable, it "can't find .NET 10". I got this #$%@* installed a while back and checked that I do have this installed. I'm looking into how to make it so whatever it is that searches for this stupid program can find it.
Azulia Posted Thursday at 09:59 PM Author Report Posted Thursday at 09:59 PM I managed to manually set the correct path to the dotnet install. This game wants me to lose my mind and it is making progress. Now I got a message I honestly don't even know how to deal with anymore. HOW IS IT THAT WHEN I SCRUB THIS PROGRAM WITH THE CORRECT PATH ON IT'S FACE IT CAN'T FIND IT??????? You must install .NET to run this application. App: /var/home/lia/Games/VS/vs_client_linux-x64_1.22.3/vintagestory/Vintagestory Architecture: x64 App host version: 10.0.1 .NET location: Not found The following locations were searched: Application directory: /var/home/lia/Games/VS/vs_client_linux-x64_1.22.3/vintagestory/ Environment variable: DOTNET_ROOT = /var/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/dotnet Learn more: https://aka.ms/dotnet/app-launch-failed Download the .NET runtime: https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=x64&rid=linux-x64&os=bazzite.44&apphost_version=10.0.1
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