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Black screen and games never load

protonopen
ValveSoftware/Proton#7492 · opened 2024-02-11 by Pat- · updated 2026-08-19 · 2 comments · github
PPat- 2024-02-11 github

System Information

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070 Super
  • Video Drivers: NVIDIA 545.29.06-18
  • Kernel version: 6.7.4-arch1-1
  • Proton version(s): 8.0.5, Experimental, GE 8-31

Issue

Any game using proton will result in a black screen when they game boots up and it never loads, I've tried over several different games from Fallout 1, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, V Rising, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblvion, Dark Souls: Remastered, Days Gone, etc. I'm at least fairly confident that it's a proton because any games with a native build like Civilization 6, Cities: Skylines, Don't Starve all work perfectly fine and so do games I run through Wine.

BBlisto91 2024-02-22 github

@Pat- Did you figure out your issue? If not a Proton is needed to see if anything sticks out.

EEytanMorg 2026-08-18 github

I have this specifically with Summoners War Sky Arena, I get the Com2Us splash screen but after that the screen remains black.
No problems with other games.

I used an exact copy of the game's files in a Windows 10 and a Windows 11 VM (VMware® Workstation Player 25H2). There they launch without issue. These are both the folder downloaded by steam and the files downloaded by the game itself.
Edit: Reinstalling the proton versions listed below did not work

Also tested on another device (Dell lattitude 5300) with the same OS, files and Steam/Proton versions. Starts without issue on this device

Tried launching the game with these proton versions:

Proton-GE ( proton-ge-custom-bin 1:GE_Proton11_5-1: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-ge-custom-bin)
Proton-Hotfix
Proton-Experimental
Proton 10.0-4
Proton 11.0

System info:

OS: Manjaro 26.1.0 Bian-May
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.18.44-1-MANJARO
DE: KDE
WM: KWin
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core @ 12x 4.41235GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (radeonsi, gfx1201, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.18.44-1-MANJARO)
OpenGPL Driver: Mesa 26.1.6, Mesa Utils 9.0.0-7
RAM: 9921MiB / 32010MiB

Proton versions