Game works for me, but performance has gotten progressively worse since the first versions of Proton.
As stated in other comments and posts, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, the latest mainline kernel, and Mesa from the Padoka unstable PPA.
GPU: 2x R9 Fury
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X
Works perfectly here. 1070 GTX, 396.54.09
The game runs well most of the time, but at random (might be around an hour of gameplay or so) one of the character 3D models will start distorting, and this distortion won't stop until the game is restarted:
I'm running the game under Arch Linux with Vega 64.
I have the mesa-git repository installed which provides the latest upstream drivers (version at the time of writing is 105843.61b535437e-1).
I'll try running the game with the more stable Mesa 18.2 since that seems to be new enough to run DXVK. There's also the faint possibility of this being an hardware issue.
EDIT:
This happens on Mesa 18.2 as well.
EDIT:
I've continued playing the game for dozens of hours without encountering the model distortion issue, so a recent Mesa/RADV update probably fixed the issue.
Game runs terribly for me now. It ran great in the early days of Proton, but now there's something wrong with how Proton is running the frame limiting feature of the game. With the frame limiter off, I can easily run 40 - 50 fps, but when I set the frame limiter to 30, my fps struggles to even get to 29 fps, usually hovering between 20 - 25 fps. This didn't happen in older versions of Proton. This occurs on all three versions of Proton currently available on Steam, 3.7-8 stable, 3.7-8 beta, and 3.16-4 beta. In any configuration, the game has become a stuttery mess. This game used to run well, but now it doesn't. I have tried everything, including running the latest amdgpu driver patched kernels, to no avail.
Game was working very well a few days ago, but now the game fails to start. It puts up a white screen, then crashes. I've tried all the Proton versions for that game.
Game works for me under https://github.com/felixdoerre/primus_vk, but if I uses nvidia-xrun to run my whole DE under nvidia it crashes at startup:steam-589360.log
System information is the same as https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/103
I get the following output in terminal when trying to run this game with Proton 4.2, with Radeon VII, and Mesa 19 from stable Padoka PPA:
Register dump:
rip:0000000000000000 rsp:000000000032f7c8 rbp:000000000032f8b0 eflags:00010202 ( R- -- I - - - )
rax:0000000000000001 rbx:0000000004948748 rcx:0000000004948748 rdx:0000000000000110
rsi:0000000000000000 rdi:0000000004948740 r8:000000000032f910 r9:0000000000000000 r10:0000000000000008
r11:0000000000000246 r12:000000000032f910 r13:0000000000000110 r14:0000000000000001 r15:0000000000000000
Stack dump:
0x000000000032f7c8: 00007f0a175cbab1 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f7d8: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f7e8: 000000003c888889 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f7f8: 000000003c888889 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f808: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f818: 000000003c888889 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f828: 2000202020202020 0020202020202020
0x000000000032f838: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f848: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f858: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f868: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000032f878: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Backtrace:
=>0 0x0000000000000000 (0x000000000032f8b0)
0x0000000000000000: -- no code accessible --
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (180 modules)
PE 330000- 5b5000 Deferred physx3_x64
PE 5c0000- 641000 Deferred physx3characterkinematic_x64
PE 650000- 823000 Deferred physx3common_x64
PE 830000- 8ba000 Deferred physx3cooking_x64
PE 8c0000- 9fa000 Deferred apexframework_x64
PE 5ae0000- 5b74000 Deferred openvr_api_dxvk
PE cd20000- cef1000 Deferred apex_clothing_x64
PE cf00000- d035000 Deferred apex_clothinggpu_x64
PE 3b400000- 3b441000 Deferred steam_api64
PE 6a340000- 6a582000 Deferred d3d11
PE 6f200000- 6f381000 Deferred dxgi
ELF 7b400000- 7b825000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b420000- 7b825000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000- 7bd42000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc20000- 7bd42000 \ ntdll
ELF 7c000000- 7c003000 Deferred <wine-loader>
PE 140000000- 1416f2000 Deferred nino2
PE 180000000- 1800bc000 Deferred sdkencryptedappticket64
ELF 7f09f4234000- 7f09f44dd000 Deferred libvorbisenc.so.2
ELF 7f09f44dd000- 7f09f4708000 Deferred libvorbis.so.0
ELF 7f09f4708000- 7f09f4911000 Deferred libogg.so.0
ELF 7f09f4911000- 7f09f4b88000 Deferred libflac.so.8
ELF 7f09f4b88000- 7f09f4d8e000 Deferred libasyncns.so.0
ELF 7f09f4d8e000- 7f09f5007000 Deferred libsndfile.so.1
ELF 7f09f5007000- 7f09f5211000 Deferred libwrap.so.0
ELF 7f09f5211000- 7f09f548f000 Deferred libpulsecommon-11.1.so
ELF 7f09f548f000- 7f09f56df000 Deferred libpulse.so.0
ELF 7f09f56df000- 7f09f570c000 Deferred winepulse<elf>
\-PE 7f09f56f0000- 7f09f570c000 \ winepulse
ELF 7f09f580c000- 7f09f5833000 Deferred mmdevapi<elf>
\-PE 7f09f5810000- 7f09f5833000 \ mmdevapi
ELF 7f09f6feb000- 7f09f7200000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF 7f09f7200000- 7f09f751b000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.20
ELF 7f09f751b000- 7f09f7737000 Deferred liblz4.so.1
ELF 7f09f7737000- 7f09f795d000 Deferred liblzma.so.5
ELF 7f09f795d000- 7f09f7be1000 Deferred libsystemd.so.0
ELF 7f09f7be1000- 7f09f7dfc000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7f09f7dfc000- 7f09f8000000 Deferred libkeyutils.so.1
ELF 7f0a0416f000- 7f0a043bc000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3
ELF 7f0a043bc000- 7f0a0463d000 Deferred libgmp.so.10
ELF 7f0a0463d000- 7f0a04871000 Deferred libhogweed.so.4
ELF 7f0a04871000- 7f0a04aa7000 Deferred libnettle.so.6
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ELF 7f0a05993000- 7f0a05bc5000 Deferred libk5crypto.so.3
ELF 7f0a05bc5000- 7f0a05e9b000 Deferred libkrb5.so.3
ELF 7f0a05e9b000- 7f0a060ac000 Deferred libavahi-client.so.3
ELF 7f0a060ac000- 7f0a062b8000 Deferred libavahi-common.so.3
ELF 7f0a062b8000- 7f0a0661d000 Deferred libgnutls.so.30
ELF 7f0a0661d000- 7f0a06868000 Deferred libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF 7f0a06868000- 7f0a06af4000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF 7f0a06af4000- 7f0a06b25000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7f0a06b00000- 7f0a06b25000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7f0a06b25000- 7f0a06b6f000 Deferred winspool<elf>
\-PE 7f0a06b30000- 7f0a06b6f000 \ winspool
ELF 7f0a06b6f000- 7f0a06bb4000 Deferred wbemprox<elf>
\-PE 7f0a06b80000- 7f0a06bb4000 \ wbemprox
ELF 7f0a083b7000- 7f0a0c000000 Deferred libllvm-8.so.1
ELF 7f0a10012000- 7f0a1021f000 Deferred libudev.so.0
ELF 7f0a102f7000- 7f0a1051d000 Deferred libpng12.so.0
ELF 7f0a10833000- 7f0a10a49000 Deferred steamoverlayvulkanlayer.so
ELF 7f0a10a49000- 7f0a10c84000 Deferred libvklayer_steam_fossilize.so
ELF 7f0a10c84000- 7f0a1127e000 Deferred libvulkan_intel.so
ELF 7f0a1127e000- 7f0a114a8000 Deferred libtinfo.so.5
ELF 7f0a114a8000- 7f0a116df000 Deferred libedit.so.2
ELF 7f0a116df000- 7f0a118e7000 Deferred libffi.so.6
ELF 7f0a119a2000- 7f0a11bb1000 Deferred libwayland-client.so.0
ELF 7f0a11bb1000- 7f0a11db3000 Deferred libxshmfence.so.1
ELF 7f0a11db3000- 7f0a11fba000 Deferred libxcb-sync.so.1
ELF 7f0a11fba000- 7f0a121bd000 Deferred libxcb-present.so.0
ELF 7f0a121bd000- 7f0a123c1000 Deferred libxcb-dri3.so.0
ELF 7f0a123c1000- 7f0a125c3000 Deferred libx11-xcb.so.1
ELF 7f0a125c3000- 7f0a127d3000 Deferred libxcb-randr.so.0
ELF 7f0a127d3000- 7f0a129e4000 Deferred libdrm.so.2
ELF 7f0a129e4000- 7f0a12bed000 Deferred libdrm_amdgpu.so.1
ELF 7f0a12bed000- 7f0a12e07000 Deferred libelf.so.1
ELF 7f0a12e07000- 7f0a132c7000 Deferred libvulkan_radeon.so
ELF 7f0a132c7000- 7f0a132db000 Deferred api-ms-win-security-systemfunctions-l1-1-0<elf>
\-PE 7f0a132d0000- 7f0a132db000 \ api-ms-win-security-systemfunctions-l1-1-0
ELF 7f0a1330e000- 7f0a13323000 Deferred api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-1<elf>
\-PE 7f0a13310000- 7f0a13323000 \ api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-1
ELF 7f0a13323000- 7f0a14cbd000 Deferred steamclient.so
ELF 7f0a14cbd000- 7f0a14fdd000 Deferred lsteamclient<elf>
\-PE 7f0a14dc0000- 7f0a14fdd000 \ lsteamclient
ELF 7f0a14fdd000- 7f0a1501b000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7f0a14fe0000- 7f0a1501b000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7f0a1501b000- 7f0a1526f000 Deferred libvulkan.so.1
ELF 7f0a15271000- 7f0a15477000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7f0a15477000- 7f0a15681000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7f0a15681000- 7f0a1588b000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7f0a1588b000- 7f0a15a9b000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7f0a15a9b000- 7f0a15c9e000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7f0a15c9e000- 7f0a15ea4000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7f0a15ea4000- 7f0a160a7000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7f0a160a7000- 7f0a162b9000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7f0a162b9000- 7f0a16363000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7f0a162d0000- 7f0a16363000 \ winex11
ELF 7f0a16363000- 7f0a16378000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1<elf>
\-PE 7f0a16370000- 7f0a16378000 \ api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1
ELF 7f0a16378000- 7f0a1638c000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1<elf>
\-PE 7f0a16380000- 7f0a1638c000 \ api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1
ELF 7f0a1638c000- 7f0a163a1000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0<elf>
\-PE 7f0a16390000- 7f0a163a1000 \ api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0
ELF 7f0a164e4000- 7f0a16716000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7f0a16716000- 7f0a1695b000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7f0a1695b000- 7f0a16b78000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7f0a16b78000- 7f0a16daa000 Deferred libpng16.so.16
ELF 7f0a16daa000- 7f0a1705e000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7f0a1705e000- 7f0a17078000 Deferred hid<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17060000- 7f0a17078000 \ hid
ELF 7f0a17078000- 7f0a17091000 Deferred xinput1_3<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17080000- 7f0a17091000 \ xinput1_3
ELF 7f0a17091000- 7f0a170bb000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a170a0000- 7f0a170bb000 \ imm32
ELF 7f0a170bb000- 7f0a17109000 Deferred usp10<elf>
\-PE 7f0a170c0000- 7f0a17109000 \ usp10
ELF 7f0a17109000- 7f0a17262000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17110000- 7f0a17262000 \ comctl32
ELF 7f0a17262000- 7f0a1759d000 Deferred libsdl2-2.0.so.0
ELF 7f0a1759d000- 7f0a17601000 Deferred dinput8<elf>
\-PE 7f0a175b0000- 7f0a17601000 \ dinput8
ELF 7f0a17601000- 7f0a1767f000 Deferred setupapi<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17610000- 7f0a1767f000 \ setupapi
ELF 7f0a1767f000- 7f0a17758000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 7f0a176a0000- 7f0a17758000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7f0a17758000- 7f0a177a9000 Deferred winevulkan<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17770000- 7f0a177a9000 \ winevulkan
ELF 7f0a177a9000- 7f0a177c2000 Deferred vulkan-1<elf>
\-PE 7f0a177b0000- 7f0a177c2000 \ vulkan-1
ELF 7f0a177c2000- 7f0a177f0000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a177d0000- 7f0a177f0000 \ msacm32
ELF 7f0a177f0000- 7f0a178b6000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17800000- 7f0a178b6000 \ winmm
ELF 7f0a178b6000- 7f0a17a2a000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a178e0000- 7f0a17a2a000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7f0a17a2a000- 7f0a17a69000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17a30000- 7f0a17a69000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7f0a17a69000- 7f0a17b08000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17a80000- 7f0a17b08000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7f0a17b08000- 7f0a17cad000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17b30000- 7f0a17cad000 \ ole32
ELF 7f0a17cad000- 7f0a17cd6000 Deferred shcore<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17cb0000- 7f0a17cd6000 \ shcore
ELF 7f0a17cd6000- 7f0a17cf1000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17ce0000- 7f0a17cf1000 \ version
ELF 7f0a17cf1000- 7f0a17e71000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17d10000- 7f0a17e71000 \ gdi32
ELF 7f0a17e71000- 7f0a180d5000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a17e90000- 7f0a180d5000 \ user32
ELF 7f0a180d5000- 7f0a1815d000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7f0a180f0000- 7f0a1815d000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7f0a1815d000- 7f0a18b69000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a18180000- 7f0a18b69000 \ shell32
ELF 7f0a18c69000- 7f0a18cfa000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7f0a18c80000- 7f0a18cfa000 \ advapi32
ELF 7f0a198c9000- 7f0a19adb000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7f0a19adb000- 7f0a19cf5000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7f0a19cf5000- 7f0a19f01000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7f0a19f01000- 7f0a1a10b000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 7f0a1b7ea000- 7f0a1b9ff000 Deferred libbsd.so.0
ELF 7f0a1b9ff000- 7f0a1bc05000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7f0a1bc05000- 7f0a1be09000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7f0a1be09000- 7f0a1c031000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7f0a1c033000- 7f0a1c36b000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7f0a1c36b000- 7f0a1c583000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7f0a1c583000- 7f0a1c839000 Deferred libgldispatch.so.0
ELF 7f0a1c839000- 7f0a1ca6a000 Deferred libglx.so.0
ELF 7f0a1ca6a000- 7f0a1ce08000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7f0a1d193000- 7f0a1d397000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 7f0a1d397000- 7f0a1d59f000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 7f0a1d59f000- 7f0a1d82b000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF 7f0a1d82b000- 7f0a1dc1c000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF 7f0a1dc1c000- 7f0a1de3b000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF 7f0a1de3d000- 7f0a1e1e8000 Export libwine.so.1
ELF 7f0a1e1e8000- 7f0a1e424000 Deferred gameoverlayrenderer.so
ELF 7f0a1e426000- 7f0a1e650000 Deferred ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 steam.exe
00000026 0
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0000000c services.exe
00000022 0
0000001f 0
0000001a 0
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0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f winedevice.exe
00000017 0
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
00000018 plugplay.exe
0000001c 0
0000001b 0
00000019 0
0000001d winedevice.exe
00000025 0
00000024 0
00000023 0
00000021 0
00000020 0
0000001e 0
00000027 explorer.exe
0000002d 0
0000002c 0
0000002b 0
00000028 0
00000029 (D) Z:\mnt\Data\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Ni no Kuni II Revenant Kingdom\Nino2.exe
0000005b 0
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00000051 0
00000050 -1
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0000002a 0 <==
System information:
Wine build: wine-4.2
Platform: x86_64
Version: Windows 7
Host system: Linux
Host version: 5.0.7-050007-generic
nant Kingdom\Nino2.exe: ../nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:434: __pthread_mutex_cond_lock_full: Assertion `robust || (oldval & FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) == 0' failed.
wine client error:4e: write: Bad file descriptor
pid 29411 != 29410, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game removed: AppID 589360 "", ProcID 29450
Exiting app 589360
With Proton 3.16-4, the backtrace is this:
=>0 0x00007f40674c15b3 in libsdl2-2.0.so.0 (+0x3c5b3) (0x0000000000000000)
0x00007f40674c15b3: movzbl (%rax,%r12,1),%ebp
@kisak-valve Here's a Proton log for this game:
steam-589360.log
Same issue when using Proton 4.2-3. I've tried installing a backport libSDL2, version 2.0.9, from ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport, but it didn't help.
Same issue as @viggy96 . Whitescreen on startup. Strangely, not using my external gpu, using intel uhd 630, the game runs fine.
This may be a problem with EGPUs as I can also run the game on my internal intel gpu but it just runs too slow to make it playable.
I use multi-gpu setup, and it crashed on launch with segfault due to igpu also having vulkan icd. Workaround that worked for me: set launch options to something like "VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json %command%", where the json file points to your GPU icd
Kudos to Valgusk as this appears to do the trick.
I just followed @valgusk's command as well and now the game runs great. Awesome!
Same issue as OP (Technomancer2). When launching from Steam, the game simply does not launch, despite the first Ni no Kuni game running perfectly on the same box using GEProton8-20. I don't get a whitescreen as reported in some of the comments above, nor do I get a blackscreen as reported in some other locations online (windows troubleshooting posts on steam community mostly).
Also attempted:
VK_ICD_FILENAMES="/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json" %command% and (separately) with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1. Tried each option under each of the above listed Proton versions. No dice.protontricks 589360 winecfg and configuring wine to 1920x1080. I actually got an error while using the command as suggested on protondb ("Your wine binary was not upgraded correctly" - despite my system and wine being fully up-to-date. system wine was wine-8.19 Staging), so what I actually ran was WINEPREFIX="/media/ssd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/589360/pfx" "/home/myusername/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 7.0/dist/bin/wine64" winecfg instead and that allowed me to set the resolution. This unfortunately didn't matter at all for running the game.Nino2.exe then opened it with hexedit Nino2.exe. Typed Ctrl+G (goto offset) -> 46924E -> EB -> Ctrl+W (write changes) -> Ctrl+X (exit). This also had absolutely no effect as far as I could tell (tested against all of the Proton versions listed above).--
Beyond that, valgusk's comment was essentially the same advice as I saw on protondb. I didn't really understand it though; mostly the part about
where the json file points to your GPU icd
I did have already have a /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json file with the contents:
{
"file_format_version" : "1.0.0",
"ICD": {
"library_path": "libGLX_nvidia.so.0",
"api_version" : "1.3.242"
}
}
but if some additional configuration was required, then I am unclear what else needed to be done. But being as he mentioned a mutli-gpu setup where I have a single-gpu setup and he had several comments that the game worked for him but performed poorly vs OP and myself can't even launch the game at all, I suspect that he was solving for a different issue.
Might investigate this more later but for now I'm a bit frustrated at spinning my wheels and getting nowhere so I'm going to take a break.
Edit: ofc just after I posted I finally got it... I'm not entirely sure why this works but I'm done debugging for tonight. Basically, I had wrote this up and posted but I had left the game trying to launch in the background while I wrote the post details.. and after posting I realized that and decided to look at processes before moving on.
I think just prior to posting I had completely deleted my compatdata/589360 folder and I had reverted the patched exe changes back to the original exe. When I got it working I had PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 and GEProton8-20 though I suspect that those don't matter too much. I had listed running processes with pgrep and then decided to kill anything hung (was planning to play something else and thought to clear up any stalled processes first) and ran pkill -9 -if 'wine|589360' then about a second or two later a window appeared and the game started and I was able to get to the main menu after dismissing a bunch of notification messages about updates. Exiting and attempt to relaunching, I had the same issue as before (not starting) and running pkill -9 -if 'wine|589360' I was once again able to reach the main menu.
So it seems like some non-critical pre-launch process is getting hung up or stuck in a loop. But based on protondb posts, I suspect that this only happens in some scenarios and I'm just one of the "lucky" ones. I'll try to capture exact processes later and post back with more info.
Ok, did a little more testing today.
While testing under GEProton8-20, I was able to narrow things down a bit more by using pgrep -ifa 'wine|589360' and killing processes one by one (e.g. kill <pid>). The process that I was killing which allowed things to proceed was
$ pgrep -ifa '/GE-Proton8-20/files/bin/wineserver'
321815 /home/myusername/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-20/files/bin/wineserver
Since wineserver should just be a service that allows other things to run, I'm not sure exactly what the actual process that was holding things up was. Trying to find child processes of the wineserver process (e.g. pgrep -P 321815) gave no results. When pgrepping for 'steam' I saw several processes matching 'DXSETUP.exe' that were always hanging around but killing those had no effect whatsoever.
I wanted to confirm if the issue or my workaround was specific to the launch options or the version I was using.
I can confirm that neither PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 nor GEProton8-20 are required. I removed all launch all launch options and switched compatibility back to Proton Experimental and the same pkill -9 -if 'wine|589360' trick worked fine.
Furthermore, while I definitely had the issue again on my first launch under Proton Experimental, one difference was that I only had to do the pkill workaround ONE time (as opposed to having to do it EVERY launch with GE-Proton8-20). On subsequent launches under Proton Experimental, it "just worked" and game came up after a 1-2 second delay. This persisted even after completely closing out of and restarting steam itself, so the launch issue seems to be permanently fixed now.
Hopefully this might help someone else if their game is not launching at all.
From Steam System Info:
Operating System Version:
Fedora Linux 38 (Cinnamon) (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.5.10-200.fc38.x86_64
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12014000
X Window Manager: Mutter (Muffin)
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20231024.64411
Hello @zpangwin, you've described #6859.
Interesting. Thanks for mentioning it, I see the latest comment claims that "this appears to finally be resolved with driver 545" but unfortunately that version hasn't quite trickled down to Fedora 38 just yet. I just finished NNK2 a couple days ago but I will keep this in mind for anything similar that I might run into in the near future tho.
edit: yup; just installed South Park: Fractured But Whole, same system and with Proton Experimental again, and ran into the exact same thing (e.g. I had to run pkill -9 -if 'wine|488790' before it would proceed) so I think you are exactly right about it being related to #6859
proton experimentalx3 2023-11ge-proton8-20x1 2023-11proton 7.0x1 2023-11proton 7.0-6x1 2023-11proton 8.0-4x1 2023-11proton 4.2-3x1 2019-04proton 3.16-4x1 2019-04proton 4.2x1 2019-04PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1`x2 2023-11PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1`.x1 2023-11WINEPREFIX="/media/ssd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/589360/pfx"x1 2023-11VK_ICD_FILENAMES="/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json" %command%x1 2023-11VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json %command%x1 2019-06
steam-589360.log
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Symptoms
Game tries to start but crashes immediately.
Reproduction
Start the game.