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Game on Steam started giving D3D11 compatibility error when using Proton Experimental (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29079738

The game is The Entropy Centre. Midnight Fight Express, which I have finished right before, doesn't seem to be affected.

Since 2 days ago the game (not Steam) started returning the error:

"A D3D11-compatible GPU (Feature Level 11.0, Shader Model 5.0) is required to run the engine."

I am on LMDE6.

Proton Hotfix or Experimental or 9.0-4 are not working.

Proton 8.0-5 is the first one that works, but with some significant lagging, but I am positive I played the same version of the game using Experimental a few days ago with no lagging and on same Nvidia drivers (535.216.01).

An FPS counter titled VK (I guess from Vulkan) shows when running 8.0, while it didn't in Experimental.

I have tried resetting the shader precaching in the settings, but nothing changes.

The game was also uninstalled and reinstalled, to no avail.

Any tips for debugging this?

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

LMDE only supports up to NVIDIA 535.

You need to update to a newer release, I had to do the same 2 days ago.

As of right now the only way to update to the newest nvidia drivers on LMDE or other Debian Bookworm releases is to use the official installer from the nvidia website.

Put the installer in your root directory, blacklist nouveau, kill X/Wayland (stop lightdm to make sure it stays dead). As root from a TTY:#/nvidia*.run to run the installer, follow the instructions and READ CAREFULLY, if your system is not correctly configured at time of install, it will tell you, but will allow you to proceed anyway, don't. Once all is done, verify your initramfs is good, and if you have a dual-GPU system (most gaming laptops for example) you should restore your xorg.conf from the backup the installer made.

Happy sailing, good luck 🫡

(Edit for clarity, I know this sounds like its an unrelated fix but it fixed this exact issue for me with Kingdom Hearts 3+Re-Mind

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Damn, I am 2 weeks in Linux and this is giving me cold sweats.

Thanks anyway! I know that if PewDiePie could, I know I can do it too! Always better than a nazi!

Edit: Indeed this works! Apparently it is due to Experimental having been updated to Proton 10 to get fixes for some major new games.

If anyone wants to to have an even more step-by-step guide about how to do this, I recommend https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/ which has lots of guide and videos and useful comments.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You got this m8, remember there's nothing you can bork that your can't unbork.

(Except #rm - rf /* --no-preserve-root, that one can't be undone)

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just tested it on my PC with Proton 10 and it works (at least on my AMD GPU). My guess is the NVIDIA driver is broken.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Seems to be a new requirement for a newer driver for experimental. Updating the driver manually to the latest compatible from the Nvidia website did the trick.