All games crash after opening with proton

[Flyingbacen]

Proton versions-all
games-all when using proton

For any game I try and open with Proton, it says playing for a few seconds, then stops. I'm unsure where the issue lies as when reinstalling my OS (linux mint Mate), it works fine for about 2-3 runs before failing to work entirely.
Attached is the log file for FFXIII.
steam-292120.log
I tried looking online for pid 111642 != 111641, skipping destruction (fork without exec?), but all I could find was someone saying it wasn't related to Proton, and only a part of the game.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Flyingbacen, please copy your system information from Steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.

[Flyingbacen]

https://gist.github.com/Flyingbacen/37c1f6498db827f25b38839f58554a19

[kisak-valve]

Thanks, the symptoms in your Proton log is:

err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow The explorer process failed to start.

And taking a look at https://gist.github.com/Flyingbacen/37c1f6498db827f25b38839f58554a19#file-system-information-L181-L193 and https://gist.github.com/Flyingbacen/37c1f6498db827f25b38839f58554a19#file-system-information-L352-L363, Vulkan appears to be broken in general.

Maybe there's a filesystem issue? What filesystem are you using with /home/aster/Games/Game Roms/SteamLibrary/?

[Flyingbacen]

I am using an ext4 filesystem for that drive.

[kisak-valve]

Blind guess, maybe give ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#434 a read and see if it's relevant to your system?

[Flyingbacen]

despite what they're using is an NTFS fs, I still decided to follow what they did to make proton work again. No matter what filesystem an app/tool is installed on, it fails to start.

[Flyingbacen]

I'm unsure why I haven't tried this sooner, but upon attempting to uninstall proton - experimental, I get the error "missing shared content" would this be at all relevant? I remember this first being an error back when I first switched to Mint when trying to uninstall steamworks redistributable. proton 7.0 uninstalled fine without errors.

[DaeLliux99]

I have the same problem. My games suddenly stop working and it seems like PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% doesn't work for me anymore 😔(All my games had that parameter)

[Flyingbacen]

I ended up just installing steam os, with holo, but the emulation for stuff like citra isn't the best, so I might just OS hop for a bit

[e-seng]

Just to bump, I am also running into this issue with any of my Windows-based steam games at the moment, although it was just working fine two days ago. My filesystem is also ext4 as well, though I'm on an Arch installation instead of Mint.

I've tried re-installing just about everything, including steam itself, but I've yet to find a solution.

Also, in response to FlyingBacen's earlier comment:

I'm unsure why I haven't tried this sooner, but upon attempting to uninstall proton - experimental, I get the error "missing shared content" would this be at all relevant? I remember this first being an error back when I first switched to Mint when trying to uninstall steamworks redistributable. proton 7.0 uninstalled fine without errors.

I believe that this error is only thrown when other steam games depend on the tool. Uninstalling those games first, I found, was a solution. If there's a more streamlined method, it would be good to know lol

[kyanter]

Bump! I just started having this issue a week ago. Nobara 38, BTRFS, Wayland. Here's my proton log (with the same err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow The explorer process failed to start. mentioned earlier) if it helps at all: https://gist.github.com/kyanter/e93e1feb18d4e4d4d91f4263bb734931

[jessedoka]

has any one solved this still getting a similar error.
steam-11118657606153928704.log