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Dead Cells

protonclosed appid 588650Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#9737 · opened 2026-05-02 by peperonirepo · updated 2026-05-02 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game
Ppeperonirepo 2026-05-02 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Dead Cells
  • Steam AppID of the game: 588650

System Information

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

steam-588650.log

Failed to initialize DirectX driver (DXError 80004005 line 112)

Called from h3d.impl.DirectXDriver.reset (h3d/impl/DirectXDriver.hx line 172)
Called from h3d.impl.$DirectXDriver.__constructor__ (h3d/impl/DirectXDriver.hx line 136)
Called from h3d.$Engine.__constructor__ (h3d/Engine.hx line 72)
Called from hxd.$App.~__constructor__.1 (hxd/App.hx line 46)
Called from hxd.$System.start (hxd/System.hl.hx line 105)
Called from hxd.$App.__constructor__ (hxd/App.hx line 45)
Called from $Boot.__constructor__ (Boot.hx line 452)
Called from $Boot.main (Boot.hx line 115)

Reproduction

Only by running the game with Proton 11 and Steam Runtime 4.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-05-02 github

Hello @MaybeGITs, https://gist.github.com/MaybeGITs/2ef13fb44baaa4505250b767fdc4b249#file-gistfile1-txt-L1131-L1144 is the section to focus on. The NVIDIA proprietary driver requires that the video driver's 64 bit userspace libraries, 32 bit userspace libraries, and kernel module are all installed and exactly the same version to work properly. Your system appears to have two NVIDIA driver installs, 595.58.03 and 595.71.05 (https://gist.github.com/MaybeGITs/2ef13fb44baaa4505250b767fdc4b249#file-gistfile1-txt-L356-L357 https://gist.github.com/MaybeGITs/2ef13fb44baaa4505250b767fdc4b249#file-gistfile1-txt-L157) and that's abnormal.

Ppeperonirepo 2026-05-02 github

Thanks for the clarification. I'm running Steam from a container, and my driver versions were slightly different. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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