omavn

Troubleshooting

Common problems and fixes.

Clicks land in the wrong place, or the game looks stretched

The game's window was resized (tiling window managers do this) while the game kept its own resolution. Install gamescope and omavn uses it automatically:

sudo pacman -S gamescope   # or your distro's package; on Omarchy: omavn omarchy setup

If gamescope misbehaves on your GPU, fall back to a floating window with omavn set <game> display window and make sure your window manager doesn't tile it.

The game shows a settings dialog first

Many VNs open a launcher or config dialog before the game, on Windows too. Pick your options and start the game; most have a "don't show again" box.

An installer opened a window

omavn runs NSIS, Inno Setup, and MSI installers unattended. Other frameworks (InstallShield, custom installers) need you to click through. Any install location works; omavn finds the game afterwards.

Japanese text is garbled

Untranslated Japanese releases often expect a Japanese system locale (their text is Shift-JIS):

omavn set <game> locale ja

The locale is generated inside Proton's container, so you don't need it installed on your system. Undo with omavn set <game> locale.

Use a different Proton

omavn runtime list
OMAVN_PROTON=GE-Proton11-9 omavn run <game>

See what's actually running

omavn run <game> --print

prints the full command, environment, and working directory, so you can run it by hand and read the output.

Still stuck

omavn feedback --kind game --game <game> "what happened"

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