https://tjnome.no/tags/proton/Recent content in Proton on tjnomeHugoen-usMon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0700https://tjnome.no/blogs/crimson-desert-proton/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0700https://tjnome.no/blogs/crimson-desert-proton/<p class="intro-paragraph">Just saved Pailune. Chapter 7, 139 hours in, and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321460/CRIMSON_DESERT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Crimson Desert</strong></a> has its hooks in me deep. Here's how the Linux launch actually went — crashes, workarounds, and the people who fixed it.</p> <picture> <source srcset="https://tjnome.no/img/crimson-desert-steam_hu_77bb44ab46cb8c5a.webp" type="image/webp"> <img src="https://tjnome.no/img/crimson-desert-steam.png" alt="Crimson Desert Steam Library" loading="lazy" width="1418" height="391"> </picture><h2 id="it-did-not-just-work"> It Did Not &ldquo;Just Work&rdquo; <a href="#it-did-not-just-work" class="heading-anchor" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1">#</a> </h2> <p>Launch day on my RTX 5070 Ti: blue lens flare in the opening cutscene, then hard freeze. Audio kept going, GPU locked up. Every time. The 595 beta driver had a regression that crashed Blackwell cards at that exact moment.</p>