PRoton games takes forever to launch

[vejotafemto]

More than 5 minutes and i dont know why, is there anything that can be done for this?

[x_wing]

How many games have this problem? Can you name them?

[Bobtail Squid]

If you gave us names we'd be able to help more.

[Aoi Blue]

The first time you run a game with proton it will take longer to launch. This is normal.

It has to prepare the directory. Changing your write cache behavior to increase the force write threshold and decrease the background write threshold can often improve performance on this.

Getting an SSD will help performance even more.

If you are running a filesystem other than the three common ones (EXT4FS, BTRFS or F2FS) you may run into performance issues as well. These three filesystems are pretty much the standard for Linux now, and anything else will be substantially poorer performance (especially NTFS.)

[vejotafemto]

Almost any game. And yes, I'm running ex4 type in both of my SSD and HDD, witch is in fact and hybrid SSHDD. I've just figured that if I remove PROTON ESYNC, WINE3D11, etc in launch options the games runs just as normal. Is that supossed to happen? I don't know, almost 5 minutes for just 1 game is weird. Even Shatae Half Genie Hero has that Issue (a considerably "light" game). Other games I've saw the issue were UMVC3, Mirror's Edge and A Hat in Time

I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa

[Jos Lazora]

I use LM 19.1 as well with quite fast SSD's and probably have a delay of 1 sec. The SHDD is not a real SSD, but it tries to learn what he needs to load often. It should not take literally 5 minutes, but I guess you haven't timed it?

[vejotafemto]

Updated my nvidia driver to 418 version and that fixed it. Thanks

[Marlock]

You should probably have done all of the recommended tweaks already, but it is still a good idea to know this exists:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements