protonscr

Zenless Zone Zero

protonopen appid 4162040Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#9883 · opened 2026-06-18 by Barnacle · updated 2026-08-16 · 8 comments · github · game page · search this game
1 matching comments, n / p to jump
BBarnacle 2026-06-18 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Zenless Zone Zero
  • Steam AppID of the game: 4162040

System Information

I confirm:

  • [*] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [*] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Rendering issues / crashes with Ray tracing / Frame Generation enabled in DX12 mode.

DX12 seems to work fine on it's own. As well as it's working fine with ONLY Super Resolution enabled - DLSS or FSR, any quality.
However the game starts to falling apart, when Ray Tracing is enabled, any quality. The same thing happens with Frame Generation - both DLSS and FSR. Any combination: RT only, FG only, or RT+FG.

Usually happens after several minutes in the game world, with various visuals: mostly 3d scene goes half or fully dark, while UI is visible or partially broken. Sometimes it looks like a generic GPU failure with the crash to desktop some time later after that.

Reproduction

  1. Start the game in DX12 mode with the game launcher

  2. Enable Ray Tracing and/or Frame Generation in graphics options (the exact quality doesn't matter)
    Image

  3. Login into the game world to play

  4. Pressing Esc back and forth into the main menu greatly speedup the issues to appear

Can't test it on Windows, so can't really tell if it's platform specific or not.

Attachments:
Screenshots.tar.gz
steam-4162040.tar.gz - Proton logs. gamemoderun was added in Launch Options, but it's the same without it.

RRSerejo 2026-06-20 github

Gamepad are not working using experimental proton.
just updating

RRSerejo 2026-06-20 github

serejo1@serejo-PC
/\ OWOS endeavOwO
// \ MOWODEL TUF B450M-PRO GAMING
//>ω<\ KEWNEL Linuwu 7.0.12-arch1-1 x86_64
// \ \ CPUWU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Cowe Processor
/ / ) ) GPUWU Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD/ATI Navi 22 Radenyan RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT /
//__-- - MEMOWY 7721 MiB/31998 MiB
/--- WESOWUTION 2560x1440
SHEWW /bin/bash
PKGS 1919: 41 (flatpak), 13 (snap), 1865 (pacman)
UWUPTIME 2h, 50m

FSR option are not showing

SSteamvoker 2026-07-27 github

There seems to be around 15-20% fps regression in experimental compared to 11.0

GPU: RTX 4090
Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 610.43.03
Kernel version: 7.1.5-arch1-1
Proton version: 11.0, experimental.

Proton 11:

Image

Experimental:

Image
Vvecipher 2026-07-29 · hidden on GitHub github

Version 3.1 regression: game no longer starts (HoYoKProtect / MHYPBase)

ZZZ worked on this system on July 28, 2026. After the July 29 Version 3.1 update, the game no longer gets past the HoYoPlay launch button.

System

  • Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
  • Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
  • NVIDIA driver: 595.84
  • Steam AppID: 4162040
  • Game build: 24294193 (Steam downloaded 12,497,142,464 bytes for this update)

Reproduction

  1. Start ZZZ through Steam.
  2. HoYoPlay opens normally.
  3. Click Start Game.
  4. The game process appears briefly and exits.

The executable is present at games/ZenlessZoneZero Game/ZenlessZoneZero.exe, and Steam reports the app as fully installed with UpdateResult 0.

driverError.log is updated on every attempt with:

[Local_Time]2026-07-29 11:41:56.792
[UTC_Time]2026-07-29 03:41:56.792
initDriver Failed: Error [4,1114,0].

The Unity player log initializes D3D11 and audio, then terminates in MHYPBase.dll.

Compatibility tools tested

  • Proton Experimental, build 24407790: exits with the error above
  • Proton Hotfix, build 24151874: identical error
  • Proton 11.0, build 24407896: identical error in a fresh isolated prefix
  • Proton 9.0, build 18753712: hangs with an unresponsive game window

No launch options were used. The original Proton Experimental prefix was also restored and reproduced the failure. Other Linux and Steam Deck users are reporting the same launch regression immediately after Version 3.1.

This looks like a Version 3.1 HoYoKProtect/MHYPBase regression rather than a missing executable or damaged Steam install.

Vvecipher 2026-07-29 · hidden on GitHub github

Follow-up: launch is working again

At 12:13 (UTC+8), ZZZ launched successfully and reached account login.

Immediately beforehand, Steam downloaded the official Proton Hotfix update from build 24151874 to build 24415271. However, the successful live process is using:

SteamLinuxRuntime_4 ... /Proton - Experimental/proton waitforexitandrun .../Zenless Zone Zero/HYP.exe

The active ZZZ prefix also identifies Proton Experimental, and there is no per-game CompatToolMapping selecting Proton Hotfix. Therefore I cannot confirm that the Hotfix update caused the recovery; a server-side Version 3.1 security configuration becoming available at approximately the same time is also consistent with the evidence.

The last failed attempt updated driverError.log at 12:00 with error [4,1114,0]. The successful ZenlessZoneZero.exe process started at 12:13:37 and remains running under Proton Experimental build 24407790. No game files, anti-cheat files, DLLs, or launch options were modified.

RRipleyTom 2026-08-12 · hidden on GitHub github

Latest bleeding edge seems to fail launching the game(after launching the game goes fullscreen for a few seconds and quickly returns). It seems to happen whether DX12 is selected or not in the launcher.

It works fine with August 7 Experimental, It started happening with https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/f2dd12c3a4981ce21d5378f6ba8b5af0acea2bf8 .

Log:
steam-4162040.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-08-16 github

[4162040] Zenless Zone Zero - D3D12 Crash on Intel Mesa and Prefix Corruption (Fedora)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/10072.
@Abdulrahman-wada posted on 2026-08-16T22:10:22:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Zenless Zone Zero
  • Steam AppID of the game: 4162040

System Information

  • GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
  • Video driver version: Mesa 26.1.6
  • Kernel version:
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: Proton Experimental / GE-Proton 11-3

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

The game fails to launch, silently aborting before the game window can render. There are three primary symptoms observed in the terminal logs:

  1. D3D12 Engine Panic on Intel Mesa: The engine attempts to initialize DirectX 12 rendering, which causes an instant crash on the Intel HD 620 chip. Even when explicitly passing -force-d3d11 and PROTON_USE_DXVK=1 as launch parameters to force a DX11 fallback, the engine still probes for DX12 feature levels before dying (shader_cache_temp_dir_d3d12_64/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache).
  2. Prefix Version Corruption: When using GE-Proton, Steam aggressively loops and corrupts the default 0 compatibility prefix. The logs continuously output: Proton: Upgrading prefix from GE-Proton11-1 to GE-Proton11-3 ... Prefix has an invalid version?!
  3. Steam Overlay ELF Errors: The boot sequence is flooded with 32-bit/64-bit gameoverlayrenderer.so preloading failures blocking the hook (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32).

Reproduction

  1. Launch Steam on a Fedora 44 (64-bit) machine using Intel HD 620 integrated graphics (Mesa drivers).
  2. Set the compatibility tool for Zenless Zone Zero (4162040) to Proton Experimental (or GE-Proton 11-3).
  3. (Optional) Apply launch parameters to force DX11: PROTON_USE_DXVK=1 %command% -force-d3d11
  4. Click "Play".
  5. Observe that the game silently crashes/aborts during the shader compilation phase before the HoYoverse logo or main window can appear.

Proton versions

Launch options

Launch lines

Upstream links

DLLs