Running on Linux

[Hiro]

Before the update everything worked just fine.
Being forced to run Windows to play the game is bad.

Now I cannot even open the game.
The problem is not play online, the problem is play at all.

EAC window appears for 1~3 seconds.
Game window appears all white and close.

I have tried:
- GE-Proton 8
- GE-Proton 9
- Proton 8
- Proton 9
- Proton Experimental
- Proton Hotfix

Also, each of the above with:
- With Proton EAC Runtime
- Without Proton EAC Runtime
- Renamed 'start_protected_game.exe'

Running Pop!_OS and Steam Flatpak.

Nothing allow the game to open, there is no error message.
Anyone else with the same problem or have something I can try?

[CoolDucktuz!]

I'm having the same issue, except that EAC window doesn't even show up. The only thing I can see is my chat status turning green and saying "playing Elden Ring" for like 2 seconds and then turning back to "Online".

I tried literally everything, but nothing seems to work

[rhoenix]

Personally, I would not at all recommend installing Steam from flatpak. Try to install it from native repositories if you can - doing so helped with my performance with several games.

[CoolDucktuz!]

I installed Steam using pacman

[Hiro]

Originally posted by rhoenix:

Personally, I would not at all recommend installing Steam from flatpak. Try to install it from native repositories if you can - doing so helped with my performance with several games.

Is your game working?

In my tests using flatpak not yield any palpable performance hit.
I would prefer to keep it under Flatpak since Steam like to create chaos on the home folder and it also keep the games isolated.

Since it was working before the update, I'm sure they can make it work now :)

[rhoenix]

Originally posted by Hiro:

Originally posted by rhoenix:

Personally, I would not at all recommend installing Steam from flatpak. Try to install it from native repositories if you can - doing so helped with my performance with several games.

Is your game working?

In my tests using flatpak not yield any palpable performance hit.
I would prefer to keep it under Flatpak since Steam like to create chaos on the home folder and it also keep the games isolated.

Since it was working before the update, I'm sure they can make it work now :)

Fair enough - I noticed a small but persistent performance hit when I ran Steam via flatpak installation, and don't when I installed it via normal Ubuntu/popOS repositories.

My game works without issue.

EDIT: I also run popOS.

[Hiro]

Originally posted by rhoenix:

My game works without issue.

EDIT: I also run popOS.

Thanks for the response.
That is really weird, Cactuz also have the problem and he installed using the distro repo...

[Bolski]

Originally posted by Hiro:

Before the update everything worked just fine.
...
EAC window appears for 1~3 seconds.
Game window appears all white and close.

Anyone else with the same problem or have something I can try?

I can get it to launch, but online mode is disabled as the anti-cheat is apparently sensing that my installation is not valid. I can play in offline mode. I don't have the DLC yet, so I wonder if that's part of it? Not sure.

My Steam is installed via pacman (I'm on Arch Linux).

I know that the SteamDeck has issues as well and Fromsoft is working on a fix for that. It's something different, but definitely the update has caused an issue with Linux.

I've also seen an issue in Windows sometimes where the anti-cheat splash screen shows up for a long time, then it closes and then the game never launches. I have to try again, and then it works. Again, I don't know if that is due to me not having purchased the DLC yet.

[Bookingyo]

Game running fine with all online capabilities using Bazzite.

Using Proton Experimental and Proton EAC Runtime

[CoolDucktuz!]

Originally posted by Bolski:

I can get it to launch, but online mode is disabled as the anti-cheat is apparently sensing that my installation is not valid. I can play in offline mode. I don't have the DLC yet, so I wonder if that's part of it? Not sure.

My Steam is installed via pacman (I'm on Arch Linux).

I know that the SteamDeck has issues as well and Fromsoft is working on a fix for that. It's something different, but definitely the update has caused an issue with Linux.

I've also seen an issue in Windows sometimes where the anti-cheat splash screen shows up for a long time, then it closes and then the game never launches. I have to try again, and then it works. Again, I don't know if that is due to me not having purchased the DLC yet.

Do you use some specific configurations? I'm on Arch too, I played +250h before the update and it just worked out of the box.
Also I didn't purchase the DLC, so I have no clue on what is going on

[escree]

I did work for me without Online and I could not enter the DLC. So I had the retarded idea to see if reinstalling the game would help. It did not. Now I am having the same issue as you, including the same fix attempts not working.

[Hiro]

So, after doing some more reading:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan
- https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#vulkan-mesa-device-select-layer-environment-variables

I got the feeling that the game, for some reason, was now running on the wrong GPU since I have 2 nVidia GPUs on this system.

Got the "vendor_id:device_id" using:

MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo

and added that to the game

MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=vendor_id:device_id gamemoderun %command%

It worked!
They must have changed something about that...
For good measure I'm also setting the "DRI_PRIME" in the same form:
- https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#envvar-DRI_PRIME

DRI_PRIME=vendor_id:device_id MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=vendor_id:device_id gamemoderun %command%

I hope that on the next update for the Steam Deck this also get fixed.

[rhoenix]

Originally posted by Hiro:

So, after doing some more reading:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan
- https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#vulkan-mesa-device-select-layer-environment-variables

I got the feeling that the game, for some reason, was now running on the wrong GPU since I have 2 nVidia GPUs on this system.

Got the "vendor_id:device_id" using:

MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo

and added that to the game

MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=vendor_id:device_id gamemoderun %command%

It worked!
They must have changed something about that...
For good measure I'm also setting the "DRI_PRIME" in the same form:
- https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#envvar-DRI_PRIME

DRI_PRIME=vendor_id:device_id MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=vendor_id:device_id gamemoderun %command%

I hope that on the next update for the Steam Deck this also get fixed.

Props, and thanks for posting the fix you found! From the sounds of it, you weren't the only one experiencing it.

[escree]

Originally posted by escree:

I did work for me without Online and I could not enter the DLC. So I had the retarded idea to see if reinstalling the game would help. It did not. Now I am having the same issue as you, including the same fix attempts not working.

Update: With today's game patch, the game works (including online). However, the DLC entry is not shown in the game menu.

[Something Something]

Just had the same problem, tried the same solution, and it works now. Thanks!

I feel like this needs to be more publicized. It was sheer luck that I had it on the same game, but by the sounds of it, it's pretty universal across games.