[SOLVED] Most Proton games either stuck at "Preparing to launch" or "Adding process x for game ID x"

[MisterPeModder]

I'm running arch on a Nvidia-optimus enabled laptop, all native games I have tried works flawlessly, but most Proton games refused to launch, the only exceptions being Cuphead
and Human Fall Flat.

Games will randomly either be stuck on the "Preparing to launch x" or appear to run, but without any window (or sound) displaying.

Heres a log of me trying to launch Noita:
https://pastebin.com/DBRNKhSK

I tried:

• All of available proton versions (even GloriousEggroll)
  
• Launching with intel graphics
  
• Using a EXT4 partition instead of my BTRFS one
  
• Using various launch options such as PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1

Some specs:

• OS: Arch Linux (5.10.60-1-lts kernel)
  
• CPU: Intel i7-9750H (12) @ 4.500GHz
  
• GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
  
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
  
• NVIDIA drivers: nvidia-lts 1:470.63.01-2 nvidia-utils 470.63.01-1
  
• Bumblebee: 3.2.1-21

Any help with fixing this issue would be greatly appreciated!

[tfk]

This error seems the culprit:
Invalid resolutions constraints: 0x0

I see many threads when searching for this error which relate to video not being able to play. Another mentioned the use of a wide screen monitor. Although, that was an old game.

[MisterPeModder]

From what I understand this line is a video file error, but it does not occur every time

[MisterPeModder]

The proton log appears to be empty:

======================
Proton: 1623873472 proton-5.13-6b
SteamGameId: 881100
Command: ['/home/yguaye/Games/steamapps/common/Noita/noita.exe']
Options: {'forcelgadd', 'wined3d'}
depot: 0.20210723.18
pressure-vessel: 0.20210722.0
scripts: v0.20210722.0-0-gb142f90
soldier: 0.20210719.0 soldier 0.20210719.0
======================

[Marlock]

from an old thread with similar error:

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/steam-civilization-v-arch-linux-and-errorinvalid-resolutions-constraints-0x0-must-not-be-greater-than-0x0/

[MisterPeModder]

Interesting, the "invalid resolusions" errors only occurs when I open the property menu of games

[Marlock]

whaaaaaaaaaat?!

as in... if you go to the properties menu in the steam libray before launching them?!

[MisterPeModder]

yup

[Marlock]

that's beyond bizarre

maybe the menu has been implemented as a floating window and isn't destroyed properly, ends up as parent to the launched process and doesn't carry a proper screen reference for it to inherit... or whatever quirk like that...

idk... it's very buggy behaviour, and definitely steam's fault in some way!

did you try alt-tabbing back and forth before launching? does that shake the issue away?

does it affect any game you launch afterwards? or just the one whose properties were opened/edited?

[MisterPeModder]

It doesn't affect the game launch at all, I tried relaunching steam after changing proton version, but no luck

[class101 [OLED deck]]

looks like an issue some peoples seem to have solved by disabling startup movies of games like that. Maybe a problem with the code responsible of automatically detecting the desktop resolution.

[MisterPeModder]

I had some progress (?), the game launches (still with no window) and produces a proton log:
steam log[pastebin.com]
proton log[pastebin.com]

[class101 [OLED deck]]

Your log reveals you are using

- An outdated version of Proton, v5.13-6b, you should always use the latest release or the latest Proton experimental
- This crash seems connected to a wrong use of PROTON_USE_WINED3D. You should never use at all this option. It will downgrade all the rendering engines in Proton, like using a simple Wine installation and so on, even if it works, you will have bad performances because all the components being developped by Valve will be disabled (DXVK, VKD3D, etc...). It is best to not use launch parameters unless you really know for what they are intended to be used for, protondb has a lot of misinformations about this, peoples are posting parameters they don't even know what they realy do.

You should focus on getting the game to run without using this launch option at all in all your games

If I were you, I'd start fresh by dropping the proton prefix in steamapps/compatdata/881100/ to reset it from scratch and make sure you use the latest proton release 6.x or experimental and no special launch options.

[MisterPeModder]

Proton v5-12-6b just happened to be the last version I tested, after removing the arguments, set the proton version to experimental, then removing the steamapps/compatdata/881100/ folder, The game gets stuck at "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1626824053)" when I launch it.

[class101 [OLED deck]]

This is the relevant error here to fix, add this as launch parameter, this will create a steam-881100.log file in your home folder

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Another thing to check is the operating system logs

journalctl -xb -p 3

[MisterPeModder]

No logs are produced when I try to launch the game this way, not even a file.
As the kernel log, the only relevant lines are:

Aug 25 19:57:03 kernel nvidia-gpu 0000:01:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
Aug 25 19:57:03 kernel: ucsi_ccg 0-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110
Aug 25 19:57:03 kernel: ucsi_ccg 0-0008: ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110

Apparently, those errors are related to my GPU's usb port, but since I can't even get the game to launch using the Intel iGPU, this is probably not the cause