Failing to launch EA games on NixOS

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i’m using NixOS for gaming rn, everything was fine until i want to play EA games it won’t launch my games, any help?

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Are you able to strace the launcher?

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how? i use steam so i just run steam on terminal?

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[2025-03-20 13:36:07] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2025-03-20 13:36:08] Checking for available updates...
[2025-03-20 13:36:08] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2025-03-20 13:36:08] Manifest download: send request
[2025-03-20 13:36:08] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-03-20 13:36:09] Manifest download: finished
[2025-03-20 13:36:09] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1741737356, installed version 1741737356, existing pending version 0
[2025-03-20 13:36:09] Nothing to do
Adding process 20976 for gameID 1328670
Adding process 20978 for gameID 1328670
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1182480]
Removing process 20775 for gameID 1182480
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/run/media/nessa/Watsson/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/1328670/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".

just this and the games wont run even i launch it on the ea app

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I can’t remember the launch parameters to fix it, but iirc the EA launcher is broken on NixOS cause it doesn’t handle very long environment variables. I ran across the same issue when trying to play nfs most wanted a while ago

Edit: Found it!

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thaaankkss it’s really helping, now how i can use gamemode and mangohud? everytime i use it on launch option it’s broken again