No Man's Sky doesn't launch on Ubuntu 24.04

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Hello!
I’m trying to play No Man’s Sky from my GoG library, using GoG Galaxy. The game doesn’t launch, I see a flash-like graphic window that appears and then immediately disappears. Launching nms.exe from the wine prefix, I have exactly the same problem.
Here what I got from “lutris -d”:

INFO 2024-09-18 10:30:50,836 [application.do_command_line:479]:Starting Lutris 0.5.17
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
INFO 2024-09-18 10:30:50,888 [startup.run_all_checks:120]:Intel HD Graphics 4000 (8086:0162 1043:844d i915) Driver None
INFO 2024-09-18 10:30:50,992 [startup.run_all_checks:120]:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (10de:1c03 1043:85b7 nvidia) Driver 550.107.02
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 2024-09-18 10:30:51,018 [system.read_process_output:188]:[‘vulkaninfo’, ‘–summary’] command failed: Command ‘[‘vulkaninfo’, ‘–summary’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1.
INFO 2024-09-18 10:30:51,018 [startup.run_all_checks:120]: (simple-framebuffer) Driver None
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
DEBUG 2024-09-18 10:30:51,381 [path_cache._update_missing_games:114]:Checking for missing games
WARNING 2024-09-18 10:30:51,433 [runtime.init:171]:Runtime updates are disabled. This configuration is not supported.
DEBUG 2024-09-18 10:30:51,433 [api.check_stale_runtime_versions:52]:Modified at mer. 18 sept. 2024 09:24:53, will update after mer. 18 sept. 2024 15:24:53
DEBUG 2024-09-18 10:30:51,450 [lutriswindow.create_runtime_updater_cb:1244]:Runtime up to date

I suspect the IGPU is troubling Lutris, but why ? it is not even used…
I am new to Lutris and Ubuntu, any help please ?

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Ok, I managed to make the game running.
In case anyone might find this useful here’s what I did:
First thing first, my config:

  • CPU: Core i7-3770K
  • RAM: 16,0 Gb
  • GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
  • OS: Ubuntu 24.04
  • Game: GOG version of No Man’s Sky (v5.12 - Aquarius)

I installed Lutris via the Ubuntu Application Store = No PB

Then I register my GOG account in Lutris = No PB, but I had to configure Lutris to see all games (not only installed ones)

I had some PB downloading the game installation files within Lutris (I have a slow internet connection) so I download them directly from GOG.
I had to rename all installation files to be able to install the game because the parenthesis must be translated in unicode, eg:
File name = “setup_no_mans_sky_5.12_aquarius_129192_(76360).exe”
Renamed to = “setup_no_mans_sky_5.12_aquarius_129192_%2876360%29.exe”

Then my real PB begins when trying to launch the game:

¤ First problem (activate the log window):
— Problem —
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

— Solution — (wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely · Issue #6141 · ValveSoftware/Proton · GitHub)
echo “* hard nice -20” | sudo tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf

“Here’s another workaround. This allows any application to change niceness, you can replace * with your username to slightly tighten the permissions.” - GrabbenD

¤ Second problem: The latest wine version and configuration used by Lutris doesn’t work with the game (had a hard time to figure this out). I tried “wine-ge-8-26” and “lutris-7.2-2” and end in different (bad) results.
Fortunately, I previously installed Steam on Ubuntu and played some Windows games so I knew about Proton. Then I discover that you can’t download Proton with Lutris, but you can configure the games in Lutris to use it.
To do that, go to the game’s settings, System options and tick on “Disable Lutris Runtime”, then change the configuration to use “GE-Proton (Latest)” in “Wine version”.
(https:/ /www. reddit.c om /r/ChrisTitusTech/comments/gpqds4/guide_how_to_use_proton_as_a_runer_in_lutris/)
My question is: Is it mandatory to install Steam on your system to be able to use Proton ? If so, this solution of mine will only work with Steam users.

¤ Third problem:
I got errors about “bwrap” in the log window. This is a Ubuntu 24.04 bug:
(`bwrap` broke on Ubuntu 24.04 · Issue #632 · containers/bubblewrap · GitHub)
— Solution —
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apparmor-dev/apparmor-sru
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apparmor

And FINALLY I could play the game!