when trying to load the game with one of the dll's without the other, the game doesn't open at all
That's expected. The game will always load both dlls, if it can't find a dll in the folder of the exe, it will use the system version of it. DXVKs d3d11.dll needs DXVKs dxgi.dll and the Windows d3d11.dll needs Windows dxgi.dll.
For anything beyond that we need logs.
when trying to load the game with one of the dll's without the other, the game doesn't open at all
That's expected. The game will always load both dlls, if it can't find a dll in the folder of the exe, it will use the system version of it. DXVKs d3d11.dll needs DXVKs dxgi.dll and the Windows d3d11.dll needs Windows dxgi.dll.
For anything beyond that we need logs.
Here it is, i uploaded on pastebin too in case the logs doesnt work
[OpenSharedResourceGeneric](warn: D3D11Device::OpenSharedResourceGeneric: Handle not found: 0xc0000542)
Something is trying to use shared resources. That cannot work with DXVK on Windows. Make sure to disable overlays, frame limiters, recording software or any other software that could hook into the graphics side of the game.
The main menu in this game uses Chromium web stuff to render, so i wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work on Windows. At least it works fine here in Proton.
Along with the files next to the main exe try to also put in the BlizzardBrowser folder
In that case, it will probably just simply not work with DXVK on Windows.
Recently i decided to Play Reforged 2.0 to check the newest Classic HD mod, but it seems that x64 dxvk is causing black screen problems with reforged, when loading both dxgi and d3d11 dll files the game loads but with a black screen, when trying to load the game with one of the dll's without the other, the game doesn't open at all.
Software information
Warcraft III Reforged
System information