Name of the game: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Special Edition)
Steam AppID of the game: 72850, 489830
System Information
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080ti
Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.113
Kernel version: 4.19.0-9-amd64
Proton version: 5.0
Symptoms
Sound stops playing after some minutes of play.
This is a known Engine-Bug of both Skyrim versions. To fix this the game needs to be installed on drive C.
Proton seems to use the Z-drive to load the game, what may lead to this issue.
Reports of players having this issue in windows can be found all across the internet.
Possible solution
Instead of using the Z-drive to access the game files, a symbolic link could be made pointing into the prefix, so the game could be launched from the c-drive.
The registry would need to be changed accordingly.
Game
System Information
Symptoms
Sound stops playing after some minutes of play.
This is a known Engine-Bug of both Skyrim versions. To fix this the game needs to be installed on drive C.
Proton seems to use the Z-drive to load the game, what may lead to this issue.
Reports of players having this issue in windows can be found all across the internet.
Possible solution
Instead of using the Z-drive to access the game files, a symbolic link could be made pointing into the prefix, so the game could be launched from the c-drive.
The registry would need to be changed accordingly.