Edit: Solution was just switching to Proton 9.

This is a weird one involving many moving parts, so I’m looking for some pointers on where I can even start trouble-shooting:

  • When I open My Summer Car (on Steam) in fullscreen mode, the keyboard doesn’t work in game.
  • When I start it in windowed mode, it works normally.
  • When I then select full screen in the window menu, it works partially (some buttons in game don’t react).
  • Other games I tested have no issue.
  • It works fine on Debian, but the issue is present on more bleeding edge distros (tested Arch, Endeavor and Bazzite)
  • Flatpak or native Steam makes no difference
  • Only tested KDE Plasma with Wayland

My best guess is that the issue is related to Wayland somehow, and that the game doesn’t mesh with the newer Plasma version, but I’d love to know if there’s a way to troubleshoot or work around this.
Thanks in advance!

  • mrbn@lemmy.ca
    2·
    13 days ago

    First things first, have you checked protondb.com for My Summer Car entries with similar specs (Arch, GPU, CPU) as yours?

    When this has happened to me in the past i’ve generally been able to fix the issue by adding the launch option gamemoderun %command%. Gamemode tends to fix about 99% of the games I’ve had issues with.

    Tbf i haven’t played my summer car so ymmv.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      13 days ago

      Thanks for the reply.
      I did, and found someone saying it works fine on Arch with Proton 9, 3 months ago.
      So I tried that, and it worked. I had only tried Experimental and 10 before with no success.