Unable to launch MS Flight SImulator X: Steam Edition on Linux

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Hello everybody,

We have a MS Flight simulator X installed on an older PC , where it was running fine, up until a few months back: after that, only splash screen will appear, but then the game will not launch.

I am using Zorin OS 16.3, Steam installed through dl.flathub.org.

When it comes to compatibility: Properties/Compatibility: Proton 5.13-6 Steam/Propereties/General/launch options: PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 PROTON_LOG=1 %command% -FastLaunch

I am attaching log from launching the game:

I did try these things (none of that helped):

As I said, game was running before, it is not anymore and I am quite new to Linux (and Steam as well), so any help would be appreciated.

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Many of us have been encountering this within just the last few months. Prior to that, never had a problem with Steam.
But now, many games that used to launch have just stopped launching and several of us have started threads on it.

I recommend opening Steam App > On the menubar,s elect Help > Steam Support

Select your title and submit a help ticket describing your issue in detail, the contents of terminal output for

sudo lshw -C video

glxinfo -B

It is worth trying - though I have had no response to my submitted support tickets.

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Have you done any updates on the flight simulator software recently? Some people are finding themselves locked out of their games because of new anti-cheat code that doesn't play well with Steam.

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Not manually, no. Any and all updates which are done are only through OS itself, which manages updates by itself.

I am sure there has been some updates since the last time it last was running, but if they were done by software itself, I cannot tell.

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Dang, thanks for a prompt reply.

Well, I can at least rest easily knowing it´s not some botched update on our PC, but Steam problem in general.

I will do that. I don´t have a high hopes though, as they will probably reply Linux distro on an old PC is now worth their time, or something along those lines.

As for the requested info:

  • sudo lshw -C video

description: VGA compatible controller product: G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 resources: irq:31 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

  • glxinfo -B

`name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: nouveau (0x10de)
Device: NV92 (0x605)
Version: 21.2.6
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 496MB
Unified memory: no
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 3.3
Max compat profile version: 3.3
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: NV92
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00`

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Do you use (external) NTFS drive? It may cause some trouble (here did too)

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Nvidia dropped support for your graphics card and its last working driver (340) back in 2019.
Your issue likely is a graphics issue and you need the 340 drivers. So... You will need to add the legacy-drivers repository:

And install the 340 driver.

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during installing this I got this

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and still nvidia-smi not found
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If you can show the full output, I can write the full path. Otherwise, try filling in the path:

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-340_340.10-4ppafocal6_amd64.deb

sudo apt -f install

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@Aravisian when I'm opening this link I'm getting lost, I can't download or install anything :cold_sweat:

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