Space Marine 2 crashes after intro cinematic

Bazzite
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Hi, I’m new to linux and bazzite but have taken the plunge a month ago. I have just purchased and installed Space Marine 2 and am having problems trying to run it. It has installed and runs, I can access the menus and settings, but it crashes immediately after the intro cinematic, before the game starts.

I have uninstalled and re-installed it but have the same situation. I’ve run the latest bazzite updates as of today 27/March/2026.

My rig is intel ultra 7 cpu, nvidia RTX 5060 Ti, 48Gb RAM and an Alienware 34” WQHD monitor

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try proton experimental or install proton-GE. Should fix any issues if your setup is correct.

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I agree with trying different proton versions. It looks like you can use ProtonPlus (already installed with Bazzite) to download new proton versions. Some random, recent posts I found online say GE-Proton10-33 seems to work. But, my guess is YMMV.

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Thank you to everyone who provided advice, I appreciate it! However the tips (trying different Proton versions) did not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times without success. It keeps crashing at the same point, as soon as the game itself tries to run (after any movie clips). Today I updated Bazzite and tried running the game again, but it still crashes.

Good news - I did manage to run the game. How? I created a new partition on my drive (using GParted) and installed Linux Mint (using Fedora Media Writer), ran system updates (including the Mint recommended NVidia drivers), installed Steam and then installed and ran the game. It ran first time without any issues. So I am now dual booting, but seriously I am in the process of moving any critical docs from Bazzite to Mint and will be using Mint as my primary distro. I’ll keep Bazzite going for a while (out of curiosity), but will not be spending much time in it (maybe run it once a week). I have other distros I want to explore, and to be honest I found Bazzite too restrictive for me wanting to really try different things. It may be ideal as a “console” environment but I want to use it more as a desktop replacement. So I will have to say its not the main one for me, right now.

Thanks again to the community for your assistance, you’re awesome!