Witcher3 does not start anymore

[Tommek]

Hi everyone,
Thanks to steam I got rid of Windows 3 years ago. I have a Manjaro (Arch-Linux with Kernel 6.1.1) Distribution running on my Computer (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X; Radeon RX6600XT; 32GB RAM). I used to play Witcher 3 a lot, but haven't in the last 6 months or so.
Now I wanted to play it again and fired up steam. It downloaded a Steam-Update, a Proton-Update and a Linux-Runtime-Soldier Update ... then the Witcher 3 Next Gen Update.

Since then I'm not able to start Witcher 3 anymore. It doesn't matter whether I start it with DX11 or DX12, whether or not I used `--launcher-skip` or `-windowed`. It always crashes with the "The Witcher 3 has crashed" Error from the Crash Reporter (which seemed to be a problem on the SteamDeck as well with the NextGen Update). But I get the error with DX11 as well (and all the Hotfixes being installed).

I don't use any mods, I verified my Installationfiles via Steam and I already removed and reinstalled the game (65GB Download :/ ) Still not playable.
I can't put my finger on, whether the Steam-Update, the Proton-Update, the Kernel-Update, my System-Update or the Next-Gen-Update broke the game in the end. But I can't find any solution/workaround to get the game running again. Even downgrading to the "classic" version of Witcher didn't help.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Or is able to help me out of my misery?
I was able to capture the logs of the crash (started with DX11 selected), but I can't see whats the problem:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 12800 != 12797, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 292030
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197969568234 [API loaded no]
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Log started. Application version: 2.8.1.30 (2022-12-11 12:54).
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Operating system: Windows 8 6.2 (Build 9200) (IA32)
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Platform identification: win10 64-bit, WINE 7.0
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Warning][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Got empty filesystem type for path '.'
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Current working directory: 'Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3', filesystem: ''.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.925 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Reading the launcher game configuration file 'Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3\launcher-configuration.json'.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.926 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Reading the launcher language configuration file 'Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3\launcher-language.json'.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.926 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: The launcher language configuration file doesn't exist.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.926 [Error][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: The launcher language configuration file did not have any contents.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.926 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: REDlauncher executable does exist at 'C:/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/CD Projekt Red/REDlauncher/REDlauncher.exe'.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.927 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Detected REDlauncher version '2.10.1.5' at 'C:/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/CD Projekt Red/REDlauncher'. Pre-launcher version '2.8.1.30'
2023-01-01 16:00:34.927 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Neither REDlauncher nor REDupdater are running. Continuing.
2023-01-01 16:00:34.927 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Starting REDlauncher verification. Program: 'C:/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/CD Projekt Red/REDlauncher/REDlauncher.exe'. Arguments: '--launcher-verify'.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.119 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: REDlauncher verification successful.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.119 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Starting REDlauncher. Program: 'C:/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/CD Projekt Red/REDlauncher/REDlauncher.exe'. Arguments: '--launcher-game-directory=Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3'.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.145 [Information][ (0)] [TID 312][red-prelauncher]: Successfully ran REDlauncher with PID 340.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.310 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Log started. Application version: 2.10.1.5 (2022-12-21 14:43).
2023-01-01 16:00:35.310 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Operating system: Windows 8 6.2 (Build 9200) (IA32)
2023-01-01 16:00:35.310 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Platform identification: win10 64-bit, WINE 7.0
2023-01-01 16:00:35.312 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Current working directory: 'C:/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Programs/CD Projekt Red/REDlauncher', filesystem: 'NTFS'.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.442 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Reading the launcher game configuration file 'Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3\launcher-configuration.json'.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.443 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Reading the launcher language configuration file 'Z:/d/games/steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3\launcher-language.json'.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.443 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The launcher language configuration file doesn't exist.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.443 [Error][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The launcher language configuration file did not have any contents.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.443 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The request queue processors created: download=0, normal=1.
2023-01-01 16:00:35.444 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Self-update check delay is 2315 seconds, check interval is 3600 seconds.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 292030
SteamInternal_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197969568234 [API loaded no]
2023-01-01 16:00:36.195 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Save files for game 'witcher3' are not supported.
2023-01-01 16:00:36.268 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Save files for game 'witcher3' are not supported.
[340:344:0101/160036.274:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1399)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msmpeg2vdec.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
[340:344:0101/160036.275:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1407)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msvproc.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
[340:344:0101/160036.531:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(142)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
2023-01-01 16:00:37.406 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Adding write access for Users group to 'C:\users\steamuser\AppData\Local\Programs\CD Projekt Red\REDlauncher\locks\REDlauncher.exe.lock'.
2023-01-01 16:00:37.409 [Warning][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Failed to get user refresh token: registry key 'HKEY_USERS/S-1-5-21-2688120582-580273178-1000-1000/SOFTWARE/GOG.com/Galaxy' doesn't exist.
[512:516:0101/160037.593:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1399)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msmpeg2vdec.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
[512:516:0101/160037.595:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1407)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msvproc.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
[512:536:0101/160037.600:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(142)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
2023-01-01 16:00:38.471 [Warning][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Failed to detect installed games on the platform 'epic'. Error Message: Failed to deserialize the Epic manifest file 'C:/ProgramData\Epic\UnrealEngineLauncher\LauncherInstalled.dat'.
		Stack Trace
6: UNK - 0x50393f
5: UNK - 0x4b3a85
4: UNK - 0x4b858a
3: UNK - 0x4b5de3
2: UNK - 0x4b3959
1: QTimer::timeout - 0x671aa958
0: QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper - 0x1eb1aed
		-----

2023-01-01 16:00:39.001 [Warning][ (0)] [TID 400][red-launcher]: Failed to detect goodies on platform 'epic': Error Message: Failed to deserialize the Epic manifest file 'C:/ProgramData\Epic\UnrealEngineLauncher\LauncherInstalled.dat'.
		Stack Trace
9: UNK - 0x503f0b
8: UNK - 0x4b4ee5
7: UNK - 0x4b8b8a
6: UNK - 0x4b8d3a
5: RtlProcessFlsData - 0x7bc605ae
4: RtlProcessFlsData - 0x7bc60a17
3: BaseThreadInitThunk - 0x7b62ddb0
2: RtlUserThreadStart - 0x7bc5d3d7
1: RtlCreateUserThread - 0x7bc5db80
0: UNK - 0x0
		-----

2023-01-01 16:00:39.092 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] Online state has changed to Unknown
2023-01-01 16:00:39.188 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] App has been resized
2023-01-01 16:00:39.190 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The GUI was loaded successfully.
2023-01-01 16:00:39.410 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] News fetched successfully from ./assets/news/witcher/en-US.json
[692:696:0101/160039.618:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1399)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msmpeg2vdec.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
[692:696:0101/160039.619:ERROR:dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc(1407)] DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msvproc.dll: Module not found. (0x7E)
2023-01-01 16:00:39.938 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] News fetched successfully from https://galaxy-game-news.gog.com/games/witcher/news?gog_lc=en-US&includeOs=win10&limit=20
2023-01-01 16:00:40.696 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The internet API status changed to 'Online'.
2023-01-01 16:00:40.700 [Warning][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Failed to get user refresh token: registry key 'HKEY_USERS/S-1-5-21-2688120582-580273178-1000-1000/SOFTWARE/GOG.com/Galaxy' doesn't exist.
2023-01-01 16:00:40.729 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] Online state has changed to Online
2023-01-01 16:00:40.755 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] News fetched successfully from https://galaxy-game-news.gog.com/games/witcher/news?gog_lc=en-US&includeOs=win10&limit=20
2023-01-01 16:00:40.764 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: [JS] News fetched successfully from ./assets/news/witcher/en-US.json
2023-01-01 16:00:41.337 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: No user ID in the settings file.
2023-01-01 16:00:41.337 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Requested to launch the game.
2023-01-01 16:00:41.391 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: The game was launched under PID 1088.
2023-01-01 16:00:41.391 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: No user ID in the settings file.
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/d/games/steam/steamapps/shadercache/292030/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 292030
SteamInternal_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197969568234 [API loaded no]
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/d/games/steam/steamapps/shadercache/292030/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
2023-01-01 16:00:46.500 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: No update is ready to be applied.
2023-01-01 16:00:47.062 [Information][ (0)] [TID 344][red-launcher]: Destroying AuthenticatedHttpClient.
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0000000000000098 at address 000000017005EF15 (thread 0444), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000000000098 in 64-bit code (0x000000017005ef15).
Register dump:
 rip:000000017005ef15 rsp:000000000201f180 rbp:0000000000000570 eflags:00010202 (  R- --  I   - - - )
 rax:00000001451e6460 rbx:0000000000000010 rcx:0000000000000078 rdx:000000000201f278
 rsi:00000001451e6460 rdi:000000000201f278  r8:00000003e0b0df30  r9:000000000000000c r10:0000000140000000
 r11:000000000201f200 r12:000000000000000c r13:0000000000000000 r14:0000000000000000 r15:0000000000000570
Stack dump:
0x000000000201f180:  000000000201f1e0 000000014500eec0
0x000000000201f190:  00000003e0b0df30 0000000000000020
0x000000000201f1a0:  0000000000000010 00000001402a8826
0x000000000201f1b0:  0000000000000001 0000000140281f9f
0x000000000201f1c0:  00000003e0b0df10 000000000201f3b9
0x000000000201f1d0:  0000000000000010 00000003dfeb4288
0x000000000201f1e0:  0000000000000000 00000003e0b0df30
0x000000000201f1f0:  0000000000000010 00000001404e90cb
0x000000000201f200:  0000000000000010 0000000000000001
0x000000000201f210:  0000000000000570 0000000000000000
0x000000000201f220:  0000000000000570 0000000000000010
0x000000000201f230:  0000000300000000 00000003dfeb41f0
Backtrace:
=>0 0x000000017005ef15 A_SHAFinal+0x3c395() in ntdll (0x0000000000000570)
  1 0x00000001402a8826 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x26376() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000570)
  2 0x00000001404e90cb ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x266c1b() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000000)
  3 0x00000001404e921a ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x266d6a() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f3b9)
  4 0x00000001403a357c ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x1210cc() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f3b9)
  5 0x00000001402f4111 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x71c61() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f3b9)
  6 0x00000001402f27de ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x7032e() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f3b9)
  7 0x0000000140307af0 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x85640() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f3b9)
  8 0x00000001403130c4 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x90c14() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000000)
  9 0x00000001403079bb ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x8550b() in witcher3 (0x00000003e38028f0)
  10 0x0000000140303c7c ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x817cc() in witcher3 (0x00000003e38028f0)
  11 0x0000000140fe9184 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0xd66cd4() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f670)
  12 0x0000000140feb2e5 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0xd68e35() in witcher3 (0x000000000201f930)
  13 0x000000014039d860 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x11b3b0() in witcher3 (0x000000000201fa80)
  14 0x0000000140e84b24 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0xc02674() in witcher3 (0x000000000201fbc9)
  15 0x000000014028384e ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x139e() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000000)
  16 0x0000000140283e31 ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x1981() in witcher3 (0x000000000201fef0)
  17 0x00000001402843ad ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0x1efd() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000000)
  18 0x0000000141067d2a ??0System@Scaleform@@QEAA@AEBUHeapDesc@MemoryHeap@1@PEAVSysAllocBase@1@@Z+0xde587a() in witcher3 (0x0000000000000000)
  19 0x000000007b62c9e9 ActivateActCtx+0x20da5() in kernel32 (0x0000000000000000)
  20 0x000000017005f627 A_SHAFinal+0x3caa7() in ntdll (0x0000000000000000)
0x000000017005ef15 ntdll+0x5ef15: cmpq	$0,0x0000000000000020(%rcx)
Modules:
Module	Address					Debug info	Name (89 modules)
PE	0000000002590000-00000000025a9000	Deferred        vcruntime140
PE	00000000025b0000-0000000002781000	Deferred        physx3common_x64
PE	0000000002790000-0000000002799000	Deferred        nvcamerasdk64
PE	00000000027a0000-0000000002846000	Deferred        msvcp120
PE	0000000002850000-00000000035fe000	Deferred        galaxy64
PE	0000000003600000-00000000036e5000	Deferred        gfsdk_ssao.win64
PE	00000000036f0000-00000000037c4000	Deferred        msvcr110
PE	00000000037d0000-0000000003c82000	Deferred        d3dcompiler_47
PE	0000000004e80000-0000000004e8b000	Deferred        steam
PE	0000000004e90000-0000000004edc000	Deferred        steam_api64
PE	0000000004ee0000-0000000004f72000	Deferred        msvcp140
PE	0000000005ba0000-0000000005d28000	Deferred        gameoverlayrenderer64
PE	0000000005db0000-0000000005e9b000	Deferred        apex_clothinggpu_x64
PE	000000003c300000-000000003d881000	Deferred        steamclient64
PE	000000007b000000-000000007b0d9000	Deferred        kernelbase
PE	000000007b600000-000000007b812000	Export          kernel32
PE	0000000140000000-000000014570a000	Export          witcher3
PE	0000000170000000-00000001700a1000	Export          ntdll
PE	0000000180000000-0000000180058000	Deferred        libcurl
PE	00000001c4ee0000-00000001c4f10000	Deferred        winspool
PE	00000001c69e0000-00000001c72fc000	Deferred        shell32
PE	00000001c8b40000-00000001c8b60000	Deferred        msacm32
PE	00000001c8db0000-00000001c8e47000	Deferred        msvcrt
PE	00000001cd860000-00000001cd868000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0
PE	00000001d97a0000-00000001d97a7000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1
PE	00000001dd3f0000-00000001dd4bd000	Deferred        crypt32
PE	00000001ec2b0000-00000001ec2d6000	Deferred        ws2_32
PE	00000001f51e0000-00000001f51f0000	Deferred        hid
PE	0000000201cf0000-0000000201d0f000	Deferred        secur32
PE	0000000205950000-0000000205958000	Deferred        api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-2
PE	0000000215e60000-0000000215f23000	Deferred        msvcr120
PE	000000021a380000-000000021a392000	Deferred        xinput9_1_0
PE	000000021a7e0000-000000021a855000	Deferred        setupapi
PE	0000000226310000-0000000226317000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0
PE	0000000231ae0000-0000000231b62000	Deferred        rpcrt4
PE	0000000236370000-000000023639e000	Deferred        winepulse
PE	0000000236df0000-0000000236e4b000	Deferred        dsound
PE	000000023d820000-000000023da6e000	Deferred        user32
PE	0000000240030000-000000024005d000	Deferred        iphlpapi
PE	0000000241850000-0000000241857000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0
PE	00000002419a0000-00000002419e0000	Deferred        wbemprox
PE	000000024f470000-000000024f48f000	Deferred        mpr
PE	0000000262250000-0000000262259000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0
PE	000000026b4c0000-000000026b53a000	Deferred        gdi32
PE	0000000270f60000-0000000271229000	Deferred        d3d9
PE	00000002739c0000-0000000273af7000	Deferred        oleaut32
PE	0000000274a50000-0000000274a5d000	Deferred        kerberos
PE	000000028ba60000-000000028ba67000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0
PE	000000028dfa0000-000000028dfac000	Deferred        nsi
PE	000000029cfc0000-000000029cfd6000	Deferred        dnsapi
PE	000000029ea80000-000000029ea87000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-1
PE	00000002bb750000-00000002bb894000	Deferred        comctl32
PE	00000002bcfe0000-00000002bcfed000	Deferred        mswsock
PE	00000002d4d40000-00000002d4d57000	Deferred        bcrypt
PE	00000002e3540000-00000002e3591000	Deferred        shlwapi
PE	00000002e8f10000-00000002e902a000	Deferred        ole32
PE	00000002edf00000-00000002ee0f8000	Deferred        dxgi
PE	00000002f1fa0000-00000002f1fae000	Deferred        version
PE	00000002f7f20000-00000002f7f2c000	Deferred        vcruntime140_1
PE	00000002fa030000-00000002fa037000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-localization-obsolete-l1-2-0
PE	0000000308050000-000000030809b000	Deferred        dinput8
PE	000000030a2c0000-000000030a2c9000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0
PE	000000030c980000-000000030c988000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0
PE	00000003126f0000-0000000312709000	Deferred        shcore
PE	0000000327020000-0000000327073000	Deferred        combase
PE	000000032a700000-000000032a72a000	Deferred        sechost
PE	0000000330260000-00000003302a0000	Deferred        advapi32
PE	0000000336850000-000000033687b000	Deferred        mmdevapi
PE	000000033b9e0000-000000033b9ed000	Deferred        powrprof
PE	000000033ea00000-000000033ea09000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0
PE	0000000344840000-0000000344848000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0
PE	0000000350a30000-0000000350a39000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0
PE	0000000351680000-0000000351688000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1
PE	0000000355100000-0000000355107000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0
PE	0000000359050000-000000035933f000	Deferred        d3d11
PE	0000000360a80000-0000000360a8a000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0
PE	0000000375610000-0000000375648000	Deferred        win32u
PE	00000003785e0000-00000003785ed000	Deferred        vulkan-1
PE	000000038b5a0000-000000038b5f2000	Deferred        wldap32
PE	000000039b510000-000000039b518000	Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0
PE	00000003a0440000-00000003a04c3000	Deferred        wininet
PE	00000003af670000-00000003af730000	Deferred        ucrtbase
PE	00000003afd00000-00000003afd1a000	Deferred        imm32
PE	00000003b6dc0000-00000003b6de8000	Deferred        winevulkan
PE	00000003b8f00000-00000003b8fc1000	Deferred        winmm
PE	00000003be590000-00000003be5f3000	Deferred        dbghelp
PE	00007f5a32760000-00007f5a32763000	Deferred        lsteamclient
PE	00007f5a34040000-00007f5a34043000	Deferred        wineopenxr
PE	00007f5a34550000-00007f5a34554000	Deferred        winex11
Threads:
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	00000024    0
	000000c0    0
	00000140    0
00000030 services.exe
	00000034    0
	00000038    0
	00000044    0
	00000054    0
	00000068    0
	00000074    0
	00000098    0
	000000b0    0
	000000f4    0
0000003c winedevice.exe
	00000040    0
	0000004c    0
	00000050    0
	00000058    0
	0000005c    0
	000000bc    0
00000060 winedevice.exe
	00000064    0
	0000006c    0
	00000070    0
	00000078    0
	0000007c    0
	00000080    0
	00000084    0
	0000008c    0
00000090 plugplay.exe
	00000094    0
	0000009c    0
	000000a0    0
	000000a4    0
	00000188    0
	000004ec    0
	000004f4    0
000000a8 svchost.exe
	000000ac    0
	000000b4    0
	000000b8    0
000000c4 explorer.exe
	000000c8    0
	000000d4    0
	000000e0    0
000000e4 rpcss.exe
	000000e8    0
	000000fc    0
	00000100    0
	00000104    0
	00000108    0
	00000110    0
0000011c tabtip.exe
	00000120    0
	00000130    0
	0000013c    0
	00000340    0
	00000770    0
00000440 (D) Z:\d\games\steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\x64\witcher3.exe
	00000444    0 <==
	00000478    0
	00000494   15
	0000049c    0
	000004dc    0
	000004e0    0
	000004e4    1
	000004e8    1
	000004f0    1
	000004fc    0
	00000500    0
	00000508    0
	00000524    0
	000005a8    0
	000005ac    0
	000005b0    0
	000005b4    0
	000005b8    0
	000005bc    0
	000005c0    0
	000005c4    0
	000005c8    0
	000005cc    0
	000005d0    0
	000005d4    0
	000005d8    0
	000005dc    0
	000005e0    0
	000005e4    0
	000005ec    0
	000005f4    0
	000005f8    0
	000005fc    0
	00000600    0
	00000604    0
	0000060c    0
	00000610   -1
	0000078c    0
0000077c CrashReporter.exe
	00000780    0
	00000790    0
	00000794    0
System information:
    Wine build: wine-7.0
    Platform: x86_64
    Version: Windows 10
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 6.1.1-1-MANJARO
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/d/games/steam/steamapps/shadercache/292030/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
pid 12919 != 12918, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Does anybody have an idea how I could get the game back up an running?

Thanks in advance :)

[petri.piira]

It was updated, breaking it. It is supposed to now work again with the latest proton, but the previous version of the game is supposed to also be available as a "beta", you could try that if you have already the latest proton selected to run it.

[Tommek]

Hey Petri, thanks for your quick reply.
I have read that the Next-Gen Update broke a lot of things, but CDPR released several Hotfixes that should make the game playable now. That's what I meant with: "I have installed all the latest Hotfixes", so my Game is Up to Date (and files are verified).
I tested it with Proton 7.0-5, Proton 6.3-8 and Proton Experimental ... same error on all versions.
I already tried to downgrade to the legacy (or Beta) version but it didn't work as well :/

I assume that the game might have a problem with my Radeon Graphics Card, but as I said ... I can't put the finger on it.

[ripper81]

It should work with Proton Experimental now. You can try to remove the proton prefix (Number 292030) in the compdata folder for the game and try again. That might do the trick.

[Tommek]

I deleted the directory: `.../steam/steamapps/compatdata/292030`, restarted steam and tried again ... still the same problem :/

Interestingly, I tried to uninstall Proton-Experimental (to reinstall it cleanly), but the uninstallation failes with "Uninstall error - missing shared content".

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Tommek:

I deleted the directory: `.../steam/steamapps/compatdata/292030`, restarted steam and tried again ... still the same problem :/

Interestingly, I tried to uninstall Proton-Experimental (to reinstall it cleanly), but the uninstallation failes with "Uninstall error - missing shared content".

I think this is the usual message when any of your games is configured to use this Proton version. Uninstalling it shouldn't be necessary anyway.

[Aoi Blue]

It's a shot in the dark, but I would recommend you try selecting a different proton version.

This is the shot in the dark that works the most often (other than rebooting your system and trying again, which I HOPE you tried.)

[Tommek]

As I wrote further above, I already tried Proton 7.0-5, Proton 6.3-8 and Proton Experimental. As I redownloaded the game for the third time now (two times the next-gen and once the legacy/beta version) be assured that I already "tried again" ;D
I also tried out different kernels (currently using 6.1.1 and tried 5.15 and 5.14).

I assumed that it has something to do with my graphics card (as most users seem to have a NVIDIA, where it seems to work). But the error in the logs suggest, that it has to do with the lib ntdll ...

Or maybe it is mixing up 32bit and 64bit libs?!

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000000000098 in 64-bit code (0x000000017005ef15).

and a little further down in the stacktrace:

19 0x000000007b62c9e9 ActivateActCtx+0x20da5() in kernel32 

BTW: Other games work flawlessly (Sniper Elite 4 works on Ultra Settings both on Proton 7.0-5 and Proton Experimental without any problems). So it seems to be Witcher related :/

[Aoi Blue]

Originally posted by Tommek:

As I wrote further above, I already tried Proton 7.0-5, Proton 6.3-8 and Proton Experimental. As I redownloaded the game for the third time now (two times the next-gen and once the legacy/beta version) be assured that I already "tried again" ;D
I also tried out different kernels (currently using 6.1.1 and tried 5.15 and 5.14).

I assumed that it has something to do with my graphics card (as most users seem to have a NVIDIA, where it seems to work). But the error in the logs suggest, that it has to do with the lib ntdll ...

Or maybe it is mixing up 32bit and 64bit libs?!

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000000000000098 in 64-bit code (0x000000017005ef15).

and a little further down in the stacktrace:

19 0x000000007b62c9e9 ActivateActCtx+0x20da5() in kernel32 

BTW: Other games work flawlessly (Sniper Elite 4 works on Ultra Settings both on Proton 7.0-5 and Proton Experimental without any problems). So it seems to be Witcher related :/

Proton 5.13 is the one that sometimes works when newer versions fail.

By default I only keep 5.13, 7.0, Experimental and hotfix installed manually for use.

[Tommek]

With Proton 5.13-6 it doesn't come up at all (not even the RED-Launcher).
The Crash-Log then says:

  45   │ 2023-01-02 09:33:48.560 [Information][ (0)] [TID 232][red-launcher]: Requested to launch the game.
  46   │ 2023-01-02 09:33:48.749 [Information][ (0)] [TID 232][red-launcher]: The game was launched under PID 292.
  47   │ 2023-01-02 09:33:48.751 [Information][ (0)] [TID 232][red-launcher]: Scheduling problem report signal (type post_mortem).
  48   │ 2023-01-02 09:33:49.002 [Information][ (0)] [TID 300][red-launcher]: Successfully sent problem report 'signal (type post_mortem)'.
  49   │ wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 00000000 at address 00000000 (thread 00e8), starting debugger...
  50   │ Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).
  51   │ Register dump:
  52   │  CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
  53   │  EIP:00000000 ESP:0031f7cc EBP:0031fe84 EFLAGS:00210202(  R- --  I   - - - )
  54   │  EAX:00000000 EBX:7ffdf000 ECX:02b167a8 EDX:028de288
  55   │  ESI:0031f7b4 EDI:6706b470
  56   │ Stack dump:
  57   │ 0x0031f7cc:  00426f4a 4072cf2d 00000000 0000000a
  58   │ 0x0031f7dc:  7ffdf000 00610000 00000000 028c6113
  59   │ 0x0031f7ec:  00000000 00000000 0031f800 00000000
  60   │ 0x0031f7fc:  00000000 00000000 00000006 0000000a
  61   │ 0x0031f80c:  00000005 00000001 00000000 01ce5964
  62   │ 0x0031f81c:  ffffff00 00000000 00000000 0031f9b8
  63   │ Backtrace:
  64   │ =>0 0x00000000 (0x0031fe84)
  65   │   1 0x005587d8 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in redlauncher (0x0031fed0)
  66   │   2 0x7b6470a1 in kernel32 (+0x270a0) (0x0031fee8)
  67   │   3 0x7b6476e8 in kernel32 (+0x276e7) (0x0031ffd8)
  68   │   4 0x7b6470b2 in kernel32 (+0x270b1) (0x0031ffec)

So it really seems to be a 32/64bit issue?!

[Tommek]

Hey Xenophobe, thanks for your comment.
I checked

 echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE 

on my system and it returned "x11" instead of "wayland". Even though I seem to use the opensource AMD drivers (amdgpu instead of amdgpu pro).
My Systemsettings About-Dialog gives me:

KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.1.1-1-MANJARO
Graphics Platform: X11
Processor: 24x AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor
Memory: 31,3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

I already downgraded my Kernel to Versions: 6.0.15 and 5.15.85 (because I suspected the amdgpu Kernelmodule to be the problem). I do always have the crashes with Witcher (both, the Next-Gen and the Legacy/Beta Version).

But at least it's good to know, that somebody can launch the game with an RX6000 Series GraphicsCard on Linux.
By the way, which Version of Proton do you use?

[Tommek]

Hey Xenophobe,
thanks for the hint.
I installed a Arch-Linux on a USB-Drive and bootet it. Even though that this Arch is using Wayland, Witcher3 starts without any problems from it.
Now I'm only confused, why it doesn't from my Manjaro (all my other Games do work from Manjaro, only Witcher3 doesn't).
At least I now have the possibility to play. Thanks for your support so far

[temps]

Witcher 3 has a "platinum" rating on ProtonDB. Should pretty much work out of the box I would think.

Only caveat I've heard is the update adding ray tracing screwed up performance. But I've heard there is a way to play older versions of the game to fix that until CDPR patches it.

[Tommek]

Hey temps,
yeah I saw that, and it makes absolutely sense, as everybody raves about it, running even on the steamdeck (which is based on ArchLinux too). The more I was surprised as I got the crash-report.
And after nothing helped, I already downgraded to the older version, which didn't start either.
Anyways, it works if I boot from my Pen-Drive-Arch Linux, so this works out for me.

The biggest downer for now is, as I deleted the "compatdata/292930" folder as suggested earlier, I lost all my savegames (somehow this "deletion" was also synced into the steamcloud, so that I had to start from the very beginning ... again )

[Mexterious]

Originally posted by Tommek:

Hi everyone,
Thanks to steam I got rid of Windows 3 years ago. I have a Manjaro (Arch-Linux with Kernel 6.1.1) Distribution running on my Computer (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X; Radeon RX6600XT; 32GB RAM). I used to play Witcher 3 a lot, but haven't in the last 6 months or so.
Now I wanted to play it again and fired up steam. It downloaded a Steam-Update, a Proton-Update and a Linux-Runtime-Soldier Update ... then the Witcher 3 Next Gen Update.

Since then I'm not able to start Witcher 3 anymore. It doesn't matter whether I start it with DX11 or DX12, whether or not I used `--launcher-skip` or `-windowed`. It always crashes with the "The Witcher 3 has crashed" Error from the Crash Reporter (which seemed to be a problem on the SteamDeck as well with the NextGen Update). But I get the error with DX11 as well (and all the Hotfixes being installed).

I don't use any mods, I verified my Installationfiles via Steam and I already removed and reinstalled the game (65GB Download :/ ) Still not playable.
I can't put my finger on, whether the Steam-Update, the Proton-Update, the Kernel-Update, my System-Update or the Next-Gen-Update broke the game in the end. But I can't find any solution/workaround to get the game running again. Even downgrading to the "classic" version of Witcher didn't help.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Or is able to help me out of my misery?
I was able to capture the logs of the crash (started with DX11 selected), but I can't see whats the problem:



Does anybody have an idea how I could get the game back up an running?

Thanks in advance :)

Mine works with proton 8.0-5 and the next commands in launch options
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm,version=n,b" %command% --launcher-skip