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Baldur's Gate 3 launch problem.

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8726 · opened 2025-05-23 by witchlliee · updated 2025-05-23 · 1 comments · github
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Wwitchlliee 2025-05-23 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Baldur's Gate 3
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1086940

System Information

  • GPU: RX 6650 XT
  • Video driver version: mesa 1:25.1.1-2
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.15.0-rc7-4-cachyos-rc
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: Proton Experimental, Proton 9.0-4

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.

steam-1086940.tar.gz

Symptoms

Basically the game won't launch at all after the launcher unless i use "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=" as var.
Edit: i discovered the issue was because i had the env-var on my system "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland" but that was the only game that complained about that so far.

Reproduction

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-23 github

Hello @witchlliee, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4243#issuecomment-2904154093.

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