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Dark Souls 3

appid 374320 19 threads, 11 open 279 comments last activity 2025-08-22
Latest maintainer comment · kisak-valve · 2023-06-17 · #6309
Proton has the `PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE` [runtime option](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options) to help games that are sensitive to long paths. It might be worth testing how the game behaves with the launch options set to `PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE=1 %command%`.
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Dark Souls III performance regression with Proton 3.16 proton open 1 matching

#478 · 147 comments · opened 2018-08-25 · last comment 2021-09-09 by Brisse89
comment by deathxxx123 · 2020-04-19 · view · github
Game will run with WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command% Or without this command, you need delete or rename ...

Dark Souls 3 audio corrupts (and stays corrupted) after a while proton open 1 matching

#2007 · 11 comments · opened 2018-11-20 · last comment 2020-04-12 by deathxxx123
comment by deathxxx123 · 2020-04-11 · view · github
... Also i need add launch option "WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%" to enable audio for newgame cutscene and ...

Dark Souls III - Crash after a few minutes of play proton open 3 matching

#2345 · 9 comments · opened 2019-02-17 · last comment 2019-06-17 by BillFleming
comment by BillFleming · 2019-06-17 · view · github
... 4.2-7 Command line: `PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PROTON_LOG=1 %command%` [DSIII_steam-374320.log.zip ...
comment by CSahajdacny · 2019-05-05 · view · github
... other games and the solution was to put `WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%` in the game launch options.

Dark Souls III No sound after game update. proton closed 1 matching

#6128 · 2 comments · opened 2022-08-29 · last comment 2022-08-30 by somewhatfrog
comment by BillFleming · 2022-08-30 · view · github
... Proton Experimental - launch command: -- `WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%` edit: Still running 5.18.17-268-tkg-pds ...

Dark Souls 3 proton open

#6309 · 29 comments · opened 2022-11-10 · last comment 2025-08-22 by R1chterScale

Dark Souls III proton open

#5569 · 11 comments · opened 2022-02-14 · last comment 2025-06-20 by kabinbr1

Dark Souls III crash at startup proton open

#2722 · 2 comments · opened 2019-05-21 · last comment 2020-10-30 by GregoryCavallera

Dark Souls III - Can't get past main menu proton open

#2445 · 6 comments · opened 2019-03-22 · last comment 2020-07-23 by moozhub

Dark Souls III uses wrong prompts, buttons do not work proton open

#3851 · 2 comments · opened 2020-05-10 · last comment 2020-05-12 by MollyMaclachlan

Dark Souls III crashing after entering the in-game menu since proton 4.11.11 proton open

#3358 · 3 comments · opened 2019-12-25 · last comment 2020-01-17 by jonlap

Dark Souls III proton open

#2828 · 2 comments · opened 2019-06-22 · last comment 2019-07-17 by arendjr

Dark Souls III crash on starting new game proton open

#2537 · 3 comments · opened 2019-04-14 · last comment 2019-05-05 by deathxxx123

DARK SOULS III, Nier: Automata (524220), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (814380) crash with Proton 4.11 proton closed

#2929 · 33 comments · opened 2019-07-31 · last comment 2021-05-17 by dagolinuxoid

Dark Souls III crashing after a certain amount of time since 4.11.8 proton closed

#3262 · 3 comments · opened 2019-11-27 · last comment 2020-06-16 by ghost

Games suffer from performance regression on proton 4.11-7 proton closed

#3140 · 2 comments · opened 2019-10-11 · last comment 2019-10-12 by ghost

Dark Souls III crashes on launch with error: Cannot open assembly ... File does not contain a valid CIL image. proton closed

#2295 · 3 comments · opened 2019-02-02 · last comment 2019-02-07 by ProtonIssuesTempAcct

Dark Souls 3 instantly crashes, can't generate logs proton closed

#2248 · 4 comments · opened 2019-01-20 · last comment 2019-01-21 by tonijarjour

can't move character in Dark Souls 3 proton closed

#2184 · 2 comments · opened 2019-01-03 · last comment 2019-01-06 by labatts

Dark Souls 3: Gamepad controls mouse proton closed

#127 · 5 comments · opened 2018-08-22 · last comment 2018-08-23 by mlassnig
Recent activity
  • R1chterScale · 2025-08-22 · Dark Souls 3
    Recently the Dark Souls 3 Lighting Engine mod released which provides a massive upgrade to the game's rendering pipeline. Sadly it doesn't seem to work through Proton, with it crashing on entering character creation. Pro...
  • kabinbr1 · 2025-06-20 · Dark Souls III
    SEVERE performance regression on Dark Souls 3 on Proton Experimental (June, 18, 2025) When running the game with proton experimental the game runs at 2 FPS, when i moved back to Proton 8 it was performing perfectly fine ...
  • alasky17 · 2023-08-02 · Dark Souls 3
    gamedrive should now be set automatically for this title. Thank you for the reports! If you run across any other games that need gamedrive (on any setup), please feel free to @ me :)
  • ghost · 2023-06-17 · Dark Souls 3
    @kisak-valve @hebrewd Huh, it's seems helped me too... Tho, now it would be nice, why Fedora Silverblue need this, and Workstation no. Because game installed on same drive, when i was changing distro, nothing changed. St...
  • hebrewd · 2023-06-17 · Dark Souls 3
    > Proton has the `PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE` [runtime option](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options) to help games that are sensitive to long paths. It might be worth testing how the game behaves wi...
  • kisak-valvemaintainer · 2023-06-17 · Dark Souls 3
    Proton has the `PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE` [runtime option](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/#runtime-config-options) to help games that are sensitive to long paths. It might be worth testing how the game behaves with...
  • hebrewd · 2023-06-17 · Dark Souls 3
    > @hebrewd i'm think it's more related to some lib, that steam uses in proton/wine to make DS3 works, or system configuration (for something) on different distros. > > You also could try run different distro (like fedora...
  • ghost · 2023-06-17 · Dark Souls 3
    > @Vovkiv Interesting, I did want to try ext4 just to verify, but I suppose that settles that. I am using arch and not silverblue however, I am using the flatpak version which used to work before after I moved the DS3 in...

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PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE=1 %command%
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%
gamemoderun %command%
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=~/dxvk.conf %command%
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/home/username/dxvk.conf %command%