Hollow Knight
I use two monitors. I was playing using the DualShock4 joystick
Hello @wandeledani, the rendering issues with the native linux version of this game is out-of-scope for this issue tracker, but we could ponder the crash-on-init with Proton. Please add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box.
Your system information hints that there are no vulkan drivers installed on your system. Please check if you have the vulkan-intel and lib32-vulkan-intel packages installed.
Hello,
I installed the packages you mentioned and now it worked fine using Proton 5.0-7. I added the requested file anyway.
steam-367520.log
Thank you very for the support!
idk if it is intentional, but this game is now forcing the usage of proton 9, if it is intentional i would like to know why do this? this game has a native linux version, and why not use the default proton instead of proton 9. also the above issue by op is about a old version of the game.
Don't fully work with 3840 x 2560 (3:2) 4K+ Huawei Mateview 28 monitor
System Information
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800
- Video driver version: Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
- Kernel version: 6.17.0-14-generic
- Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/DanielYang59/7e6ccffb8986af7cebf3126c75b921e0
- Proton version: 10.0-4
[!NOTE]
I could help testing other proton versions, let me know if this would be helpful.
Symptoms
I have a Huawei Mateview 28 which has a weird 3:2 ratio at 3840 * 2560 @ 60Hz (via DP cable). I noticed some games don't fully work in "full screen", more details below.
- Hollow Knight (367520):
- Fullscreen mode: changing to fullscreen freezes the game window and forces focus on the game window (i.e. trying to change to another windows via either "Win" key or "alt + tab" would focus the display back on the game)
- Boardless mode: shows "3840 x 2560 @ 60 hz" in settings but doesn't really show game at full screen (it's slightly taller than 3840 x 2160 but with boarder to the top and bottom of the screen)
Proton versions
proton 5.0-7x1 2020-05
Launch options
PROTON_LOG=1x1 2020-05
Upstream links
- ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9729x1 2026-05
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Symptoms The game crashes when start. Grey screen. Sound works. Pressing buttons works. I can even enter the game, but I only listen to it, can't see anything.
I'm using a Dell XPS 9360. Arch Linux updated.
First time Steam user. Download from multilib library (sudo pacman -S steam, with multilib repository enabled). Opened the app, subscribed, purchased Hollow Knight, downloaded and played for a while. I also have the game for PS4. I noticed that it wasnn't perfect, with some scenario lag, but 100% playable. Installed the package lib32-mesa. Rebooted the system. Played the game for a little while more. After another poweroff, the game started with the issue. I really think that I wasn't even using Proton. I hadn't checked the option "forced the use a specific Steam Play compability tool". I was simple playing it if no tweas. After the problem appeared, I uninstalled Steam and installed it again. Same issue. Then I installed the following packages from AUR: proton and wine-valve-git. I checked the "forced the use a specific Steam Play compability tool" and tested all the options. The Proton version don't even launch the game. The Steam Linux Runtime gives the reported issue.
Reproduction