[WORKAROUND] - loading Lutrus 0.5.17 when using NVIDA UNIX Open Kernel drivers about lutris HOT 6 CLOSED

I tried your file out and it looks like the current Lutris does handle that properly, though the code does not match what you say it ought to be. I think if you can get onto 0.5.17 you will be fine.

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You do realize that you can't propose a fix that works for you but breaks on every other install that doesn't use the open source version, right?

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Matching up your line numbers with the code, I see that you are on a version of Lutris no later than 0.5.10.1, which is almost exactly two years old. @hugovonhorse, maybe you should update before doing fixes like this.

That said, I think it will still crash since you seem to be getting something unexpected out of /proc/driver/nvidia/version, but I do not know what it was, so I can't really fix this.

I'll add some prophylactic code to give it a chance, and some nicer logging at least.

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OK, I've done a "fix"- it still won't be able to understand your NVIDIA driver, but it should no longer crash though it will assume it is outdated.

@hugovonhorse, when you get a chance please download the master and run the bin/lutris script within- no need to install it. Does that work better for you?

In 0.5.17, the is_outdated check that is failing is not run on startup- it runs when you try to configure a Wine game, and you visit the "Runner options" tab in that window. So make sure you go look at that; I expect a warning about your driver will be present.

I suspect that you've tried to install 0.5.17 via the deb by double clicking it. On Ubuntu derivative distributions this annoyingly does not work- it just installs Lutris from your distribution's repositories, which seem to be spectacularly out of date. If that's what happened, maybe you should use the Lutris PPA which is up to 0.5.17.

I hope that the improved error handling in 0.5.17 will allow it to work for you even without my recent 'fix' anyway.

But @strycore, I see that Lutris.net's download page still points Ubuntu users as the .deb file, so they won't get automatic updates. Maybe it should reference the PPA again now that that's back?

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I suspect that you've tried to install 0.5.17 via the deb by double clicking it. On Ubuntu derivative distributions this annoyingly does not work- it just installs Lutris from your distribution's repositories, which seem to be spectacularly out of date. If that's what happened, maybe you should use the Lutris PPA which is up to 0.5.17.

you suspect correctly and my that is annoying ... having gone to the Help > About menu it is indeed actually running 0.5.9.1 🤦‍♂️ apologies, please mark the whole thing 'Complete/Void' and i'll install the latest version from the PPA and see what happens.

For note: the ouput of /proc/driver/nvidia/version is;

NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  550.54.15  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U16-A24-23-2)  Tue Mar  5 22:15:33 UTC 2024
GCC version:  gcc version 12.3.0 (Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)

Thanks

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For the moment ive downgraded the drivers to 545 proprietary from the ubuntu-drivers list and reversed the element changes and its picking that up ok too.

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