Great! Maybe that was what caused the issue the first time.
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What exactly are we looking at here? Video settings in game or tuning you did to get better fps?
So AC3 took forever to install, and all seemed well, but it opens to a black screen and then closes. Any ideas?
Have you tried editing options within Lutris dashboard? My sims 3 kept opening to a black screen and then closing. Till I realised I had to disable a certain setting. DXVK/VKD3D (I think)
Also, are you getting any warning errors when opening lutris up? Eg any warnings about drivers being out of dateā¦
Eta: Or certain features not being available because of drivers being out of dateā¦
Thank you. Unchecking DXVK worked. Is that an issue with the game or DXVK? Maybe it will get fixed with future DXVK updates?
Youāre welcome.
Also I reckon itās a driver/DXVK issue, but I could be wrong. But my reasoning is that when ever I open Lutris I get a warning about my drivers being out of date (GPU unsupported by latest 440/450 drivers) The warning also then mentions something about DXVK not working as a result. Which is why I figured out that, that option probably needed toggling in my game options to get my game running.
Iām not near my laptop at the moment though, so canāt check the exact message I get when opening lutris up. But Iām sure it was something along those linesā¦
Although, as AC3 and TS3 are older games maybe thatās why the DXVK option makes then unplayableā¦ 
ETA: Or maybe Lutris dislikes games that are 3rd in a series 
In all seriousness though, Iām glad youāve got AC3 working. Its a good gameā¦ I was watching Brother Bear the other day with my younger sister and it made me think of revisiting AC3.
Iām pretty sure it must be this.
Thank you for all of your help.
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What controller drivers are you using? I have a Nvidia shield controller and I am able to connect it, bit the left joystick and d pad seem to be stuck in the up position. At least on ac3. Is there a setting I can change or a driver I need to install?
I think it should still work unless your GPU is REALLY old, see here, i wonder what it says
That full black screen crash usually indicates some problems with driver / vulkan, according to Lutris / protondb DXVK should work with this game just fine (and itās extremely rare that it donāt with any game)
However, if other games work fine with DXVK, please report bug to DXVK for game in question
- It is highly suggested to install ErrorTrap, Traveler and Overwatch mods by nRaas to improve gameās stability.
Also that might suggest that there are problems with game itself in that case, according to Lutris 
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Thanks for response. Iām at work at the moment. So will load up lutris/laptop once Iām back home. Though for reference the GPU on my laptop is old itās an Nvidia GT650M and Iām 90% sure it says something about DXVK not working as a result of outdated drivers.
I donāt connect any controllers to any of my setups. I prefer keyboard and mouse. So Iām afraid I canāt help you here 
Thatās a pity, seems youāre out of luck 
DXVK gives some heavy performance boost and better compatibility than stock Wine implementation of DirectXā¦
GT620M is a Fermi card, and Nvidia supports Vulkan on Kepler and later (some GTX600 series, most GTX700 and up). So no, your card is not supported.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vulkan/comments/99vfe7/does_nvidia_geforce_gt_620m_support_vulkan/
You might want to turn it off globally in Lutris to avoid disabling for each game:
- On left panel hover your
over Wine tab - 
Cog will appear, press it! - Disable DXVK/VKD3D
@shockwave
What Nvidia card do you have?
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If any gameās crash, refuse to start, blackscreen then just hit the terminal icon under the game in lutris and get the logs. Youāll normally be able to find what needs enabling/disabling in there
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Thanks, I was wondering where I could find that. In this case, I was able to disable DXVK for that one game and it seems to work now. I just need to figure out why the controller keeps wanting to drift up.
Yeah but in your case thatās weird, unlike @Janinah , your GPU GeForce GTX 960M, should be fully working with vulkan / DXVK see here
That indicates that still something not set up right.
I have the msi gs72 6qe and itās the same gpu, Vulkan seems to be working fine for me. The only issues Iāve had with games have been with screen resolution which is another reason I use lutris. Just cause 3 was trying to run in 4k and no way to change the resolution in game so I use lutris to change it before I run it
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Interesting it says āfullyāā¦Well anyway, if GPU is not in Vulkan db then itās no-go 
P.S. Cool wallpaper, do you still have source?? 
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I havenāt installed any other games in Lutris yet, been working on configuring my sims game(s) which is a lengthy process as, as you can see from below:
The Sims 3 & EPs require a lot of mods to try and keep the game playable - I have the aforementioned mods installed already as well as load of others by Nraas and custom content, as Iāve been playing the same neighborhood/save for like 5 years.
If it wasnāt for those mods Iād have left The Sims 3 years ago due to it becoming unplayable thanks to EAās shoddy coding.
As mentioned above, the game itself is poorly coded making it unstable. However, Lutris is still able to launch it from the executable. What I might report, however is the fact that the launcher executable doesnāt work due to some dotnet 20 issue. Though the fix is on protondb, it hasnāt worked for me, so it would be good if lutris had a fix for it as the launcher is needed to install a certain type of custom content.
Thanks 
swiped it from our āshare your desktopā thread. Iāll go hunt it down, it was posted by one of our main members whoās name escapes me 
Still need to customise it some more though by adding better icons and a top panel.
ETA: Hereās link for the wallpaper
ETTA: it was @Beardedgeek72 who shared the wallpaper 
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