Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D
Still fully unplayable:
Can confirm main menu is a black screen on Proton 7.0.3 and Experimental. However, setting Proton to 5.13-6 and turning off Steam Overlay makes the menu display and you can start a mission and play (I don't know which of these fixed it). However, after playing once under 5.13-6, the game completely stopped working. It doesn't launch any more, at all. It just sits in the "Starting launch..." spinner screen that displays the controller layout.
For this reason, the game is fully unplayable.
I just tested this game and it works out of the box with Proton 8.0.4 and SteamOS 3.5
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D is no longer playable on any versions of Proton
Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9309.
@robstarmcdonald posted on 2025-12-13T11:47:07:
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D (Issues: Game's launcher no longer allows me to play the game)
- Steam AppID of the game: 455910
System Information
- GPU: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 20.1.2, DRM 3.61, 6.14.0-36-generic)
- Video driver version: Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
- Kernel version: 6.14.0-36-generic
- Desktop Environment: Unity 7.7
- Link to full system information report as Gist:
- Proton version: Experimental
- Proton log: steam-455910.log
I confirm:
- [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
- [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.
Symptoms
As of today, I noticed the game is no longer playable after using PROTON_USE_DXVK which permanently destroyed my chance of playing the game. Neither reinstalling the game nor removing its Proton compatdata fixes the problem. Because even if I tried to troubleshoot myself, or already added PROTON_USE_DXVK the launcher shows me this.
No, removing PROTON_USE_DXVK=1 %command% did not helped, because if I added that command, the game is done, until the bug is fixed which I don't know the solution.
Reproduction
- Add
PROTON_USE_DXVK=1 %command%in Steam Launch Option - After it show the launcher that now requires installing the game manually which doesn't seem to work quite right. Such as it fails to launch the installer that is needed.
- Add
PROTON_LOG=1 %command%to find a log in Steam Launch Option
Note: PROTON_USE_DXVK never existed as a runtime option.
Note:
PROTON_USE_DXVKnever existed as a runtime option.
However @kisak-valve, if I used that command, it made the game become unplayable, which I'm not sure why. Also, I noticed that switching to older proton versions also made the game become unplayable.
Luckily, I managed to fix that by removing its user data folder with a following step by steps:
- Close out Steam if I haven't done it already
- Go to this partition:
/home/"USERNAME"/.local/share/Steam/userdata/383419448/ - Delete folder name:
455910 - Launch Steam and play the game
If that fails, then you have to reset Steam app temporarily by backing up the old one before relaunching the game to make sure it fixes the problem before undo the action by restoring the old one.
Proton versions
proton 8.0x1 2023-11proton 7.0x1 2022-06proton 4.11x1 2019-11proton 4.11-8x1 2019-11
Launch options
PROTON_USE_DXVKx3 2025-12PROTON_LOG=1x1 2025-12PROTON_USE_DXVK=1x1 2025-12
Launch lines
PROTON_USE_DXVK=1 %command%x1 2025-12
Upstream links
- ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9309x1 2025-12
DLLs
actxprxy.dllx1 2019-11advapi32.dllx1 2019-11comctl32.dllx1 2019-11comdlg32.dllx1 2019-11ddraw.dllx1 2019-11dinput.dllx1 2019-11dmsynth.dllx1 2019-11dmusic.dllx1 2019-11dsound.dllx1 2019-11gdi32.dllx1 2019-11hid.dllx1 2019-11iforce2.dllx1 2019-11imm32.dllx1 2019-11kernel32.dllx1 2019-11kernelbase.dllx1 2019-11
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Proton log
Symptoms
Game launcher shows off clicking on "Play" makes the screen black (as it should) then the whole thing crashes after a few seconds without any sound or other visual effects and I'm back at Steam where I can click on the play button to start things all over. Selecting the Analyze computer option in the game's launcher gives and error message that DirectX Dignostic Tool not found.
Reproduction