Hey y’all, I just got Cyberpunk for the first time and started playing it. The game plays fine – no issues at all while in the game – but whenever I close it out, then the game goes away, I can see my desktop again, but now no mouse clicks or keyboard typing does anything. I am effectively locked out of using my PC until I hold the power button for ten seconds to reboot.
This has happened all 3 times I’ve played this game but never happens with any other game. I searched online and tried verifying my game files in Steam, but the problem still happens.
My PC:
Unbuntu 22.04
AMD Ryzen 5
16 GB RAM
Nvidia RTX3060 - nvidia-driver-535
Steam with the native game, no mods, using these launch options:
–intro-skip --launcher-skip -skipStartScreen
Thanks for any ideas, let me know what else you might like to know.
UPDATE: It seems to have helped to enable the Compatibility mode for the game with Proton 8.0-5. Now when I exit, the game shuts down normally. Once I realized I was running a Windows game without forcing compatibility mode, this seemed like the right thing to do. But I don’t get how the game was playable at all without doing that. Most (all?) other games I’ve played on Ubuntu yet required me to enable the compatibility with Proton before they would even install. In any case, thanks all. I learned a few new tricks.
Make sure Steam is not a Snap package - it’s known from having many issues. When locked, try to switch to tty with ctrl+alt+f3 (or 4, 5,…), login, list processes using
ps -aux, find if there are any processes remaining from the game or RED Launcher, try to kill it and go back to desktop (ctrl+alt+f1 or 2) to check if it’s unlocked.