steam no longer opening after applying cxpatcher to a cs2 bottle

[popovidis]

I enabled shared bottle because I did not want to reinstall steam + cs2 and steam no longer runs on the patched crossovers, the original works. I use D3DMetal + Msync.

[italomandara]

did you enable dxmt when patching?

[popovidis]

did you enable dxmt when patching?

No, these are the settings I used

[italomandara]

this is strange it works just fine for me, does it run and then quit or does it show an error window?

[popovidis]

this is strange it works just fine for me, does it run and then quit or does it show an error window?

Steam icon shows up in the dock then closes after a few seconds, no errors.

[italomandara]

did you give up immediately? or did you try again after the steam quits? Have you tried wait some seconds after steam quits to see if it re-launches?

[popovidis]

I have tried waiting, restarting app, deleting and repatching, nothing worked. I am using fresh bottle, so far so good. What options would you recommend for cs2? I am running default patcher settings

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[italomandara]

first thing make sure you are using a separate bottle for patched and unpatched which is causing 90% of the issues.

[popovidis]

first thing make sure you are using a separate bottle for patched and unpatched which is causing 90% of the issues.

got this new issue. played some cs2 (not well but playable ish), turned on device today, and I get this issue, after restart same thing.

[italomandara]

I think there's a bigger issue then and it's probably not cxpatcher.

[italomandara]

I need more information about your setup and the steps to replicate and possibly the cxlog when steam doesn't start.

[popovidis]

I need more information about your setup and the steps to replicate and possibly the cxlog when steam doesn't start.

let me know what I can do to help, however at the moment unpatched works and patched does not, so idk how I can get you logs.

[popovidis]

most resent crossover 2 + most recent cxpatcher

[italomandara]

enable "use separate bottle path", that's causing your issue on steam, you need to use a separate bottle path with patched crossover.

[popovidis]

enable "use separate bottle path", that's causing your issue on steam, you need to use a separate bottle path with patched crossover.

that option was selected when patching

[italomandara]

it's disabled here #230 (comment)

[popovidis]

it's disabled here #230 (comment)

since opening this issue I have done the following: deleted the patched crossover 2, patched it again with default settings, successfully played cs2 with many lag spikes (fresh install inside of the new bottle) with ESync. Turned off the computer for the day, and then it stopped opening here: #230 (comment)

[italomandara]

The issue is titled "steam no longer opening after applying cxpatcher to a cs2 bottle"
and this is your first comment: #230 (comment)

So for completeness sake, let's address the main issue: Your issues with steam are caused by not creating a separate bottle, which is recommended. (see: https://github.com/italomandara/CXPatcher?tab=readme-ov-file#new-bottle-path)

then for the other issue:

• redownload crossover
• open it once before patching
• patch it
• create a bottle for patched crossover
• if you also want dxmt a separate bottle for dxmt patched crossover is recommended

[popovidis]

The issue is titled "steam no longer opening after applying cxpatcher to a cs2 bottle" and this is your first comment: #230 (comment)

So for completeness sake, let's address the main issue: Your issues with steam are caused by not creating a separate bottle, which is recommended. (see: https://github.com/italomandara/CXPatcher?tab=readme-ov-file#new-bottle-path)

then for the other issue:

• redownload crossover
• open it once before patching
• patch it
• create a bottle for patched crossover
• if you also want dxmt a separate bottle for dxmt patched crossover is recommended

should I want dxmt? will it make cs2 run better?

[italomandara]

Some users report dxmt works better but has shader compilation stutter at the beginning (dxmt doesn't have shader cache yet)

[italomandara]

DXMT is very complicated to manage tho at the moment (new users can have issues) and I'm discouraging new users to use it, the new upcoming crossover will handle dxmt better so it's worth waiting

[popovidis]

what do I select here? Do I have to download something or just pick any directory?

[italomandara]

Macprotips has a tutorial for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98DF0MZxcg&t=215s (the tutorial is outdated but still good, now cxpatcher lets you set the framerate cap and metalfx for dxmt), or read here: https://github.com/italomandara/CXPatcher/releases/tag/v0.5.81
keep in mind that some builds are problematic i recommend to use the gcc build of dxmt as we speak, please don't open issues on DXMT since it's alpha software and not fully supported in crossover 24.x.x