Game instantly stops ... but worked after installation

Hi,

like almost everyone, I’m new to Lutris so please excuse my perhaps obvious question.

I’ve installed a game (Sacred - Gold Edition) via the GOG integration. I had some kind error during installation but when it finished it said “Successful”. I was also able to press “Launch” directly out of the installation window and the game launched.
However, the next day when pressing the “Play” button in Lutris, it changes to “Stop” for a second and then back to “Play” as if the game crashed. I see no window popping up, nothing.

I already tried switching between al available Wine versions (wine-ge-8-26-x86_64, ge-proton, Proton 9.0, Proton Hotfix, System (9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3))), however nothing worked.
From what I’m reading in the logs/debug output (see below), it seems that the issue is that the game is 32 Bit. But I changed the Prefix architecture to “32-bit” and it didn’t help. And what confuses me is that the game worked at the beginning… I’ve also tried the installation via the .exe but this results in the same issue.

My system: Ubuntu 24.04, AMD CPU (x86_64), Nvidia GPU

I’m thankful for every help!

This is the log of the game:

Started initial process 9833 from gamemoderun /home/dave/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/dave/Games/gog/sacred-gold/drive_c/GOG Games/Sacred Gold/Sacred.exe
Start monitoring process.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
wine: WINEARCH set to win64 but '/home/dave/Games/gog/sacred-gold' is a 32-bit installation.
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 256)
Exit with return code 256

I can’t attach the lutris-debug file since I’m a new user but here are some snippets that might be helpful:

INFO     2025-07-25 16:16:33,407 [application.do_command_line:480]:Starting Lutris 0.5.18
INFO     2025-07-25 16:16:33,524 [startup.run_all_checks:120]:"card1" is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (10de:2486 10de:147a nvidia) Driver 550.144.03
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers!
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan.
ERROR at ./vulkaninfo/./vulkaninfo.h:458:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER
ERROR    2025-07-25 16:16:33,542 [system.read_process_output:189]:['vulkaninfo', '--summary'] command failed: Command '['vulkaninfo', '--summary']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
...
WARNING  2025-07-25 16:16:54,499 [wine.set_regedit_keys:1009]:Wine Virtual Desktop can't be used with Wine-GE and Proton
...
wine: '/home/dave/Games/gog/sacred-gold/pfx' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support 64-bit applications.
[umu.umu_run:668] DEBUG: Child 9405 exited with wait status: 1
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 256)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 256
DEBUG    2025-07-25 16:16:57,518 [monitored_command.on_stop:228]:Process 9383 has terminated with code 256
DEBUG    2025-07-25 16:16:58,560 [game.beat:927]:Game thread stopped
WARNING  2025-07-25 16:16:58,560 [game.on_game_quit:965]:Game still running (state: running)
...

Update:

  • I’ve checked if vulkan is installed (because of the vulkan error when starting lutris):
    I’ve installed vulkan-tools and vulkaninfo returns version 1.3.275

  • I’ve tried installing libvulkan1 and mesa-vulkan-drivers (also in :i386) but they were already installed

Update:

  • I’ve updated my Nvidia driver from 550 to 575 via the Software&Updates-tool in Ubuntu. This seems to fix the Vulkan error " vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers!" when launching Lutris
  • I’ve followed this guide on how to install the latest wine version on Ubuntu 24.04. It seems that the installation worked fine, however i now see multiple versions (9 and 10) when i run apt list --installed and I’m not sure if this is an issue:
fonts-wine/noble,noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 all [installed,automatic]
libwine/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libwine/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 [installed,auto-removable]
wine-stable-amd64/noble,now 10.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
wine-stable-i386/noble,now 10.0.0.0~noble-1 i386 [installed,automatic]
wine-stable/noble,now 10.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
wine32/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 [installed,auto-removable]
wine64/noble,now 9.0~repack-4build3 amd64 [installed,auto-removable]
winehq-stable/noble,now 10.0.0.0~noble-1 amd64 [installed]
winetricks/noble,noble,now 20240105-2 all [installed]

Despite all this, the issue that the game closes/crashes instantly remains

I’m not sure this is the solution but do you have gamemode enabled in the preferences? I’ve had a similar error when trying to launch games in the past, and the reason was gamemode wouldn’t run programs for some reason I haven’t managed to solve. In the end I just disabled gamemode and now games run fine