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Can't Launch Proton Games Sometimes Unless System Restarts

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7221 · opened 2020-06-25 by ThisNekoGuy · updated 2020-06-25 · 1 comments · github
TThisNekoGuy 2020-06-25 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 4, at 05:51:01
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro KDE
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Sometimes attempting to launch a game in Proton launches a game for a split second then immediately closes before a render window even appears. (Sometimes causing a random Steam trading card to be awarded for no sensible reason.)

One such example is when I just tried to launch Persona 4 Golden (using the recommended Protontricks method from ProtonDB) and, instead of launching the way it should, it does this and refuses to fix itself unless I reboot my entire system.

I don't know what causes this, so reproduction could be a bit difficult.
I'm using Proton 5.0-9 and have shader pre-caching enabled.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Enable SteamPlay
  2. Attempt to launch a Steam Windows game
  3. Encounter this strange issue by chance?
TThisNekoGuy 2020-06-25 github

Nevermind, it seems that I incorrectly entered some launch variables; if this happens without that on some other case though, I'll mention it here.

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