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Unable to use proton (games not loading)
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Hi, let me preface this by saying that a) I do not use github very often, so sorry if I misplace something and b) this issue has been happening ever since July 16th 2022. After contacting steam support they asked me to submit here.
I will try to provide as much information as possible. I have recently been encountering a bug where every time I go to open up a game with proton steam either says the game is running and no window pops up, or the game will be stuck in the preparing to launch phase. Occasionally I also get stuck in installing vcredist for things like rocket league.
Native applications still work perfectly fine, so I believe this has to do with proton.
I have tried several different versions of proton on several different windows games, some of which I had previous run before, including proton 7.0-3, 6.3-8, 5.13-6, Experimental, GE (git), on games like rocket league, multiversus, BTD6, ori and the will of the wisps, risk of rain 2, all of which have the same errors on the proton versions.
I am currently running on arch with the 5.18.16 kernel, my computer hardware is as follows:
-AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 core
-AMD Radeon RX 5700
-32gb of ram
-250gb nvme "boot" drive ssd - ext4
-1000gb m.2 "storage" drive ssd - ext4
Things I feel are important to note:
-This occurred a couple days after switching from a Nvidia GTX 1650 Super to my current AMD Radeon RX 5700, games did in fact run during the short period where I just got my card though, so I don't think this is the issue, and yes I did fully remove nvidia drivers
-This occurred a couple of days after changing BIOS settings to allow for resizable bar, I did change this back just to test however and it did not fix my issue
-It's not a 32bit graphics driver issue, I have played other 32bit games on this boot
-Lutris, and Wine are working perfectly fine
Things I have tried (I may have forgotten something)
-Running steam, steam-runtime, in terminal to play games
-Installing vcrun from proton tricks (Will not install) note this issue is happening on games that had already been installed and gone through first time setup
-Moving files to my nvme drive
-Reinstalling graphics drivers
-Running steam-runtime --reset
-Reading the terminal output of steam (I don't truely understand it so I will attach it)
-Running steam games through wine in console (windows do open, most games instantly crash)
-Installing steam through Lutris (did not work)
-Resetting proton prefixes
-Reinstalling proton
-Reinstalling steam
-Deleting steam data from home directory to 'reset' it
-Running it through hyprland (did not fix any issues except ori and the will of the wisps ran for some reason)
I'm sure I missed something but I am currently at wit's end, so to speak, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have attached 2 logs from console from when I attempted to run games. One from multiversus and one from BTD6.
Thank you to anyone who is reading this for your time, and I will check back here tomorrow. I do hope that this is fixable.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the attached steamlog.txt and btd6-steamlog.txt, then compare the failed launches across the Proton versions and games listed. Check the reported Arch Linux, kernel, Radeon, Steam, steam-runtime, Wine, and Lutris configurations; done means identifying a reproducible cause or actionable fix for Proton games failing to launch.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- arch-linux, linux
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- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 18/100