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voidpointer

Member

Registered: 2022-07-30

Posts: 1

Proton not working on almost any game

Hi,

I cannot get almost any game to work with proton, even those with gold category on protondb.com
such as Skyrim, Loop Hero and others. I am running the Steam (Runtime) version from the arch repositories.

My system uses:

Kernel version: 5.15.55-2-lts
CPU: Intel i7 4790k
GPU: GTX 970
Driver: 4.6.0 Nvidia 515.57 (latest propietary)
Desktop Enviroment: Gnome 42.3

This is the skyrim proton log, the menu shows up and instantly closes.
I did pacman -Syu, before all the tests.

Any idea of why this is happening? Thanks in advance.

Fmamarksman

Member

Registered: 2021-09-25

Posts: 11

Re: Proton not working on almost any game

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … _libraries

Do you have all the libraries installed?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: Proton not working on almost any game

Your vulkan doesn't init properly. Make sure lib32-nvidia-utils is installed and no other Vulkan provider (notably amdvlk which you will get if you install steam without reading pacman prompts, which would ask you which vulkan provider you want and if you hit enter without selecting the one you need amdvlk will be default).

Alternatively fall back to the GL renderer by starting things with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% in the launch options. But first and foremost make sure your vulkan setup is generally correct.

In doubt post

pacman -Qs vulkan
vulkaninfo --summary #Needs vulkan-tools