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Hello! I've tried a bunch of games but they're just not able to start on proton/wine/GE proton version 8 and up. If I switch back to proton 7 they're working fine. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a solution. Also softwares that don't require GPU work fine too with version 8.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using GE-Proton8-19, Vulkan 1.3.264 and Nvidia 535.113, and everything's working perfectly fine. Manjaro btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I check for/install the latest vulkan drivers in kde Neon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Says: Vulkan Instance Version: 1.3.204

Also nvidia driver version: 535.113.01

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good combo, should be working fine. I'm assuming you're trying to run Steam games, right? Perhaps restart Steam as well so it updates itself, and perhaps reboot if you've updated any of these recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm using bottles. And the proton 8 versions haven't been running from the very beginning. I've tried a lot of things but nothing's worked. Also tried it in Heroic launcher but soon as I check the dedicated GPU option proton silent crashes without even starting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I’m using bottles.

OK but what I mean is, are you running Steam games with it? Because Proton is only meant to be used with Steam games, and GloriousEggroll has been going blue in the face over the years warning people about it. GE-Proton expects certain stuff that's only present in Steam games. It will probably work 9 times out of 10 with non-Steam games but it's not a given.

If they're not Steam games you want Wine-GE instead of GE-Proton, it has the same stuff that GE puts in their version of Proton. If you use ProtonUp-Qt it will let you very easily manage GE runners for Steam, Lutris and Bottles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Proton Ge 7 and below work just fine so idk why it shouldn't and none of the wine variants 8 and up are working, I've tried all of the available ones in bottles. I've tried in Heroic launcher too. I'll try using protonUP. Thanks for the advice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

3070, driver version 535.113.01, kubuntu, GE-Proton8-20 works fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could it be that I have an older GPU? It's an MX 130. I haven't been able to run any versions 8 and up in any wine variant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, no idea... I don't know anything about that gpu, never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure you are using the nvidia GPU? If your laptop has an iGPU i could be defaulting to running on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm quite sure. I have a kde widget for it. It kicks up when I'm playing games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As in a GeForce MX 130? That's from 2017, which is elderly by computer hardware standards, but I'm not aware of a specific reason why it wouldn't work. It supports DirectX 12, at least

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup that's the one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using LTS or non LTS version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago