protonscr

Nothing works anymore

protonclosed
ValveSoftware/Proton#2714 · opened 2019-05-19 by toluschr · updated 2019-07-13 · 10 comments · github
Ttoluschr 2019-05-19 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: most games
  • Steam AppID of the game: -1

System Information

I confirm:

  • [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game. -> all rated gold+
  • [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-650500.log
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz
dmesg

Symptoms

Most of the games I tested and played before don't work anymore with any version of proton. I installed Steam with Lutris and that way everything runs just fine. The games I have tested are:

  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: GPU hang, until reboot
  • Witcher 3: The game just exists
  • Brawlhalla: Black screen
  • Just Cause 4: Works fine
  • Wolfenstein 3D: Works fine
  • Others: Most just crash, not resulting in a GPU hang

Reproduction

Start any game

Ending

If anyone could help me resolve my issue, I would be very happy :)!

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-05-19 github

Hello @toluschr, this sounds like there's an issue with your video driver. Does any vulkan application like vulkaninfo from vulkan-tools work?

Ttoluschr 2019-05-19 github

Yes. vulkaninfo works and gives me this output
vkinfo

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-05-19 github

A couple of things to try separately:

  • Adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to Witcher 3's launch options to test if the game runs without DXVK.
  • Downgrading to nvidia 418.xx
Ddreamer 2019-05-19 github

@toluschr Your link to gist with systeminfo is broken.

Ttoluschr 2019-05-20 github

I already tried downgrading my driver to 418, but xorg stopped working. I deleted my shader cache, compadata and common folder and also enabled virtual desktop mode, but nothing seemed to work. Sadly enabling d3d11 didn't seem to work either. I will update the gist link as soon as possible.

Ddreamer 2019-05-20 github

@toluschr Waiting for that system info to see if there's something surprising reported in there (runtime, weird versions of libraries).

Whenever a problem like yours happened to me, it was always a result of me messing with proton itself (e.g. broken user_settings file, broken dist or something similar) - it's easiest to detect such situations by running steam in a terminal and looking at stdout while running the game.

Another thing to consider is installation - how did you install and update Steam? Arch package? flatpak? snap? And where do you have set your library (did you perhaps move your only library to NTFS drive and it got mounted read-only after dual booting to Windows?). Did you change your XDG env variables? If yes - does $ readlink ~/.steam/root points to the location pointed by your changed XDG vars?

Ttoluschr 2019-05-20 github

Here you go! The URL got cut of by Github. Thanks for helping me out :)
Steam Information

Ttoluschr 2019-05-20 github

So I switched away from Arch to Fedora today. I can now confirm that everything works just fine out of the box without any tweaks required!

Ddreamer 2019-05-21 github

Can confirm, Fedora is really stable :)

Mminisori 2019-07-13 github

I know it's late but maybe it helps others. One month ago or so i had a similar problem and nothing was working the solution was to update SDL.

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