Linux and Proton - Game is not starting after recent major patch

[Byso]

Specs
OS: Arch Linux 6.14.6-arch1-1
WM: Hyprland 0.49 (Wayland)
GPU: Radeon RX 6950 XT

Workaround
None

What has been tried?
Game reinstall, All available Proton versions, Game data validation, Turning off Steam overlay, Beta and stable versions of Steam, tried leaving the game "running" for 2 hours (as steam still identifies the process as it's not getting killed )

What is the issue?
After recent patch game is not launching properly, wine logs says there is an error with invalid argument, game process technically is still running in the background and Steam itself identifies it as "running" (Button has [X] Stop instead of Play)

Last 40 lines of Proton logs

2645.830:0144:0148:info:nvapi64:Successfully acquired Vulkan vkGetInstanceProcAddr @ 0x6ffffa84e2d0
2645.832:0144:0148:info:nvapi64:<-NvAPI_Initialize: NVIDIA or other suitable device not found or initialization failed
2645.832:0144:0148:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\nvapi64.dll" : native
info: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT (RADV NAVI21):
info: Driver : radv 25.0.5
info: Memory Heap[0]:
info: Size: 16004 MiB
info: Flags: 0x0
info: Memory Type[2]: Property Flags = 0x6
info: Memory Type[5]: Property Flags = 0xe
info: Memory Type[6]: Property Flags = 0xe
info: Memory Type[8]: Property Flags = 0xc6
info: Memory Type[10]: Property Flags = 0xce
info: Memory Heap[1]:
info: Size: 16368 MiB
info: Flags: 0x1
info: Memory Type[0]: Property Flags = 0x1
info: Memory Type[1]: Property Flags = 0x1
info: Memory Type[3]: Property Flags = 0x7
info: Memory Type[4]: Property Flags = 0x7
info: Memory Type[7]: Property Flags = 0xc1
info: Memory Type[9]: Property Flags = 0xc7
info: Game: deadlock.exe
info: DXVK: v2.6.1-61-g54d37d964e076e7
info: Build: x86_64 gcc 10.3.0
info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x6ffffa84e2d0
info: Built-in extension providers:
info: Platform WSI
info: OpenVR
info: OpenXR
2645.840:0144:0148:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineopenxr.dll" at 00006FFFF8B60000: builtin
warn: OpenXR: Unable to get required Vulkan instance extensions size
info: Enabled instance extensions:
info: VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1
info: VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2
info: VK_KHR_surface
info: VK_KHR_win32_surface
wine client error:148: write: Invalid argument

In case I can provide more info or logs let me know

 

[computergraphics]

I am encountering this as well, also on a Radeon GPU, on Debian Linux

 

[tails123]

I am encountering this as well, also on a Radeon GPU, on Debian Linux

I had this occur on a debian linux testing install (for debian linux 13), try using the -dx11 perameter on boot, as that is likely a regression in the vulkan drivers, you can also revert back to the 25.0.3 mesa version through the use of a deb package.

 

[Rizzrick]

If you just want to play you can try this workaround in the meantime. It solved some other Linux issues I had.

Post in thread 'Steam crash, game unresponsive on activating party voice chat'

May 4, 2025

I found a workaround to this if anyone's interested.

The bug doesn't exist in Windows, so I installed Steam in Bottles with the soda-9.0-1 runner.

Now I can use this Windows version of Steam to run Deadlock, and party voice doesn't crash anymore.

Note that Steam itself has some graphical glitches when run like this, but it works fine to just launch Deadlock.

Performance is about the same for me. It also seems to have fixed some other minor bugs I had before.

• Rizzrick