# Launcher crashes after today's update(SteamPlay Linux) **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Tags:** launcher\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903 "2021-02-11T11:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/21 "2021-02-11T13:24:07Z")
I’ll do whatever I have to to keep eve running on linux; but these wine versions are ancient… 5.7 isn’t even in the gentoo repo’s anymore, and I can’t even imagine what the performance hit going from staging to stable would be. For me reverting to an ancient eve launcher and refusing updates is a bad, but better option than using an ancient version of wine. ---
**Author:** ![Zoiie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zoiie/32/292363_2.png) [@Zoiie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zoiie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/22 "2021-02-11T13:24:34Z")
6.0 IS released in the STABLE branch but people were talking about staging, well anyway, it works on Proton, that’s good enough, saves me installing the hugemongus Wine package Pity Valve broke Proton 5.13-3+ that broke launching ANY games, I have a working 5.13-2 but Steam enforces the latest minor patch update or it won’t run, so I end up on 5.0-10 I have no need to run Wine outside of Steam, if games on Steam don’t work on Proton then tough, I don’t run them, I don’t really want to litter my machines with Wine apps if possible, otherwise it defeats the purpose of me having Linux ---
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/23 "2021-02-11T13:31:28Z")
I understand the sentiment, but for me it’s the opposite. I’m running linux because I want open source software and no DRM. Polluting my system with steam just to get proton is kind of contrary to running gentoo, I might as well be back on windows 10. ---
**Author:** ![Zoiie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zoiie/32/292363_2.png) [@Zoiie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zoiie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/24 "2021-02-11T13:32:04Z")
Well I get that, if you don’t have Steam to begin with, but many do, so I keep it contained in there if possible, otherwise I wouldn’t have a single Windows app at all, zilch, zero, most are probably running Ubuntu, Debian, Mint or Arch or something, they probably already have polluted their system with snap anyway ---
**Author:** ![Kadesh\_Priestess](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kadesh_priestess/32/467993_2.png) [@Kadesh\_Priestess](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kadesh_Priestess)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/25 "2021-02-11T13:43:48Z")
> [@Zoiie](#): > > I don’t really want to litter my machines with Wine apps if possible Well, steam does exactly that - you get steam + wine (multiple versions). I have a single wine version for a single game, way less litter compared to the steam option. Have to add, I do not consider it litter, but to my understanding launching it via steam produces more litter by every possible metric. ---
**Author:** ![Zoiie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zoiie/32/292363_2.png) [@Zoiie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zoiie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/26 "2021-02-11T13:45:00Z")
It is contained under the steam install location, and whatever major version of Proton you want, not multiple versions unless you specify it ---
**Author:** ![Kadesh\_Priestess](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kadesh_priestess/32/467993_2.png) [@Kadesh\_Priestess](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kadesh_Priestess)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/27 "2021-02-11T13:46:16Z")
My wine installation is also contained under ~/.wine\_eve with all the integrations disabled, plus I have no overhead of launching steam for launching EVE. ---
**Author:** ![Arwen\_Estalia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arwen_estalia/32/514763_2.png) [@Arwen\_Estalia](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arwen_Estalia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/28 "2021-02-11T14:03:00Z")
> [@Outta\_Cares](#): > > but these wine versions are ancient… 5.7 was released in April, it ain’t that old. And you can still use the staging patchset for older wine versions. I currently do not see any performance hits. ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/29 "2021-02-11T14:46:00Z")
Not working for me either - under Mint 17.3. Was working fine until 11am today. _(It’s my birthday too, thanks for the present CCP…)_ ---
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/30 "2021-02-11T15:08:58Z")
Happy birthday! All is not lost, there seems to be two legit workarounds right now. 1 - revert to any launcher prior to today (link in thread), you can use your old sharedcache folder so you don’t have to redownload 2 - revert wine to 5.7 ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/31 "2021-02-11T15:36:16Z")
> [@Outta\_Cares](#): > > Happy birthday! Thanks 🙂 > [@Outta\_Cares](#): > > 1 - revert to any launcher prior to today (link in thread), you can use your old sharedcache folder so you don’t have to redownload I downloaded the prior launcher you indicated, not sure what I do with it though ?? ---
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/32 "2021-02-11T15:46:09Z")
If you know where your shared cache folder is, back that up (so you don’t have to redownload), normally you would go into the launcher → settings to look that up and change it, but it’s crashing at the moment. Then either delete your old installation and reinstall using the old launcher, or using the old launcher, install to a new location. If you managed to back up your shared cache folder, you just open up the settings in the launcher and point the shared cache folder location to your back up; then restart the launcher and you’ll be ready to go; if not, redownload everything. You do not need to wipe/create a new wine prefix, and infact if you dont (eve stores a lot of settings in the app data folder inside of that prefix) most of your settings will still be there. Edit: After this the launcher will attempt to update it self. Do not take the update, it will give you an option to cancel; you can update the game, just not the launcher. ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/33 "2021-02-11T15:49:11Z")
Thanks. Didn’t realise I’d have to re-install, I’d assumed I could just replace the one launcher executable ☹ Perhaps I’ll try the Wine 5.7 route instead… ---
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/34 "2021-02-11T15:51:06Z")
That’s basically what your doing when your “installing” the game from the launcher download, it’s just extracting itself. The actual game, the 20GB download, is in that shared cache folder. I’m not sure what the default is on that or I’d point you to it; I changed that a long time ago. I think it defaults to the same folder the launcher is in; they can be in two completely separate folders if you want, it’s a simple setting in the launcher. It sounds complicated but it’s far less complicated than downgrading wine and creating a new prefix. ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/35 "2021-02-11T15:52:20Z")
I found my shared cache folder, so I’ll try as you suggest, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Zoiie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zoiie/32/292363_2.png) [@Zoiie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zoiie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/36 "2021-02-11T15:52:36Z")
So the lesson here is, backup your Eve installation folder before updating, well, we knew that from years ago, this is standard practice on Windows and Eve ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/37 "2021-02-11T15:53:46Z")
It’s a long time since I ran Windows, forgotten most of what I once knew ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zoiie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zoiie/32/292363_2.png) [@Zoiie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zoiie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/38 "2021-02-11T15:54:07Z")
It’s a CCP thing, patch for a patch for a patch ---
**Author:** ![Outta\_Cares](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/outta_cares/32/256020_2.png) [@Outta\_Cares](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Outta_Cares)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/39 "2021-02-11T15:57:27Z")
First time I’ve had to deal with this, I had no backups ☹ lucky I found a link to an old launcher lol. Definitely making weekly backups from here on out. ---
**Author:** ![Dravick\_Afterthought](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dravick_afterthought/32/282017_2.png) [@Dravick\_Afterthought](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dravick_Afterthought)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-crashes-after-todays-update-steamplay-linux/294903/40 "2021-02-11T15:59:08Z")
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