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Bluish9992

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Registered: 2022-12-14

Posts: 47

how to play darksouls 3 from steam on arch linux, fresh install

hello everyone noob here.

it's not really a fresh install, but i did just install the os 3 days ago. i used to be able to play darksouls 3 fine just by running it on steam but i don't know what's wrong now

the behavior is when i click on the play button from steam it says Launching then it stops and turns into the play button again. which presumably means it crashed somewhere

i didn't know how to get any error messages to start trouble shooting so i googled how to launch it from the terminal and followed the steps from this forum thread: 
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/d … 269734249/

i got this output after running the .exe file

0080:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0080:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0080:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0080:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0080:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0080:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!
0080:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!
0080:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!
0080:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!
011c:err:winediag:ntlm_check_version ntlm_auth was not found. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
011c:err:ntlm:ntlm_LsaApInitializePackage no NTLM support, expect problems

i think it's that last message maybe that's the problem i don't know what it means though.

after googling a few, i ended up installing samba from pacman and it got rid of that last message but the problem is still there where nothing happens after pressing play on steam

this is on an msi gaming laptop with an intel i5-8300u with an nvidia gtx1050ti
on arch linux with kernel 6.3.8-arch1-1
i have it configured to where just the nvidia gpu is primary and the only one running by following the steps here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … phics_only

i've tried other versions of proton(6.3-8, 7.0-6, experimental and GE) available from the compatibility tab from the properties of the game on the steam app but same issue. i also tried a a couple of different launch options i found from the protondb page for this game like

DXVK_ASYNC=1
DXVK_ASYNC=1 gamemoderun %command%
mangohud gamemoderun %command%

steamplay is also turned on
i have wine and lutris installed which i use for other games that work fine but it also cannot do anything about this specific one. i dont know how to use winetricks. but i also have that.

i couldn't find the specific forum thread but it lead me to believe that it might have something to do with vulkan? i don't know how to troubleshoot this area but this is the result of

$ ls -lahtri /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/
total 12K
6293596 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  140 Jun 14 22:56 nvidia_icd.json
6293594 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jun 15 02:54 ..
6293595 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 21 14:12 .

and

$ pacman -Qs vulkan
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 535.54.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-vkd3d 1.7.1-1
    Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library By WineHQ
local/lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.251-1
    Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader (32-bit)
local/nvidia-utils 535.54.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/spirv-tools 2022.4-1 (vulkan-devel)
    API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules
local/vulkan-headers 1:1.3.253-1 (vulkan-devel)
    Vulkan header files
local/vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.251-1
    Vulkan Installable Client Driver (ICD) Loader

any insight would be much appreciated

Bluish9992

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Registered: 2022-12-14

Posts: 47

Re: how to play darksouls 3 from steam on arch linux, fresh install

update:

this game is installed on a separately mounted ntfs hard drive, and i reinstalled another game (pacify, also on steam)that was having the same issue on the ext4 ssd where i have my arch installation on, and it worked doing that. but i can't do that for all my games this one is actually streching it coz my ssd is rather small. i'd rather have games installed on the hdd, is there anything i can do to rectify this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: how to play darksouls 3 from steam on arch linux, fresh install

For using NTFS drives as the steam library you're strongly suggested to symlink the compatdata folder on the NTFS drive to the compatdata folder on a linux drive so that the proton prefixes can be stored on a linux file systems (proton prefixes contain a few linux specific paths and assumptions that might be invalid on NTFS/Windows) https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton … ead-errors