[Linux] Cities: Skylines quits when switching desktop workspace

[Keule42]

Hi,
if I play Cities: Skylines, i'll use two "Virtual Desktops" in my window manager. One runs Cities: Skylines and Steam, the other one a program for playing music. I'll switch to the music workspace to select another track I want to listen to before switching back to Cities: Skylines. However, since version 1.1.1 Cities: Skylines will quit after I switched to the music app. It doesn't seem to crash uncontrolledly as there is no crash message in the kernel log. Also the game.log doesn't show anything interesting. The only reference I have is reproducibility.

The window manager I use is "i3 version 4.10.2" (http://i3wm.org/).
To reproduce the problem, just run Steam on desktop 1 and start Cities: Skylines. It will then run on the same desktop as Steam. Now switch to desktop 2 by pressing "command + 2" (command is either the "Windows" key or "alt" depending on what you chose on i3 setup). After that, go back to desktop 1, Cities: Skylines should now been gone.

 

[FreakyCheeseMan]

Same problem - Cities quits a lot when I switch back and forth using i3. Did you find a solution?

 

[khadron]

I'm having the same problem. It happens whether the game is running windowed or full screen. It only happens when you have loaded a city (so, 99% of the time), on the main menu it does not seem to crash.

I've tried running with "--noWorkshop" and "--disableMods", but it doesn't seem to help. Also, the game doesn't seem to write any logs when it crashes.

Update: If I run Cities from the command line and then switch workspaces as mentioned above, my shell says the following:

“./Cities.x64” terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

I guess the SIGABRT is just from the crash itself?

The full log is here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8297f1dea63100ae848a

 

[Keule42]

As of binary version 1.2.1-f1 the issue is gone for me.