crash+driver corruption and steam issues on B42.16.1(latest)

[rose gust]

Project Zomboid will start minimized and i haven't found a way around it if i try to tab in zomboid immediately crashes but it will boot to the main menu and if im fast i can hover the menu options for a moment before it crashes but more importantly ** project zomboid crashing causes steam to break** after it crashes attempting to full screen or resize steam doesn't work it just makes the new segments black i have to fully close steam then restart my computer to get it to work again i theorize that zomboid crashing is once more causing a problem with my drivers or wayland/X11 im unsure

specs:
GPU: GTX 1050 TI
CPU: AMD A6-3620
20GB DDR 3 RAM
Drivers: Nvidia Proprietary 580.126.18 drivers
OS: Linux Pop!_OS 24.04 (Ubuntu based)

currently no mods i also deleted default.txt to see if it would help which it didn't.
I don't recall how many logs are in the .zip but some of them may be from the previous version

[coral mist]

Can you share all “hs_err_pid” files found in your main game folder “Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid”?

[rose gust]

none of them appear to be recent

[coral mist]

The logs still seem to imply graphical issues, possibly with the drivers you have. Are you on the latest available drivers?

And additionally, how do you have Steam itself installed? Flatpak?

[rose gust]

i believe so the 580 open source aren't compatible with my GPU so i had to use the proprietary

[rose gust]

via system i believe i installed it from sudo apt install steam

here is a screenshot from running nvidia-smi

okay it would appear im not on the absolute latest drivers so i can try that

the most recent are 595

[coral mist]

Hm, should work fine regardless.. can you try setting the game to Windowed mode and see if this same problem happens then?

Just to check if its a fullscreen only issue

[rose gust]

can i do that without the game being open?

which file would i be looking for

[coral mist]

Home\Zomboid folder and edit the options.ini file with a text editor.
In that file, edit the fullscreen=true line to fullscreen=false

[rose gust]

it started up this time and didn't crash but i also didn't try to actually get in game i also changed the size to be larger without fullscreen to see if that would do anything which it didnlt

also worth noting this run hasn't caused any external issues which confirms that, that was being caused from the game crashing

[coral mist]

Interesting, try testing Borderless mode as well?

[rose gust]

i can do that real quick

it crashed this time trying to start up (windowed) appears to have happened in the same spot as the other times in fullscreen

i'll edit the option file to set it to borderless

from borderless im also experiencing extreme lag on steam and in the file explorer currently so im gonna have to reboot my computer

i assume the lag i was experiencing was from my drivers being corrupted

the game actually never shut down it was just a black window and it generated a log

[rose gust]

same log but ended from where i rebooted its also massive

[coral mist]

Yeah it just shows a ton of OpenGL errors.. GPU related.. I have not seen this specific flood of errors before

I have a Nvidia Linux PC for testing as well and have no issues running the game there, so I am not sure if your specific driver you use has issues, or if it is Distro specific

I use Wayland as well

[rose gust]

I suppose I can try updating my drivers

[rose gust]

It's worth keeping In mind that this only started on 42.16 it didn't happen on the previous build once I updated my drivers

[rose gust]

okay so this is getting rather concerning if this is all caused by project zomboid and if it is a coincidence it is a awfully poorly timed one after the testing yesterday steam simply did not function at all in any capacity it opened in the background but no way to launch games or any menus or anything the only thing i could do i exit steam after a series of investigations into what was going on it would appear that project zomboid crashing hard coded a gpu blacklist into steams launch flags meaning i could not use steam at all until i purged all its files and reinstalled if this was truly caused by project zomboid then this is a incredibly massive and highly concerning bug

[rose gust]

crash+driver corruption and steam issues on B42.16.1(latest)

[coral mist]

That is very unlikely that PZ is causing that, its more likely that the issue you have is causing PZ to crash

Meaning you are looking at it from the opposite side

[rose gust]

the thing is i haven't done anything else besides run pz that has any capacity to cause anything like this the only other thing i have done is install nvidia drivers and sure i did have to fiddle with them for a bit to blacklist the open source ones since they're incompatible but nothing else

[coral mist]

Have you tried running PZ after you purged all the Steam flags?