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I just downloaded Dark Souls 3, when I hit "Play", it just stuck on "Launching" forever.

Register DarkSoulsIII.exe as none Steam game and force compatibility mode, it somehow still goes back to launch through official app page and gets stuck again.

Searched online, 2 guys on reddit described the same issue, with Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS and Mint 20.02, while I'm on Fedora 37 KDE.

Weirdest thing, when I hit "Verify Integrity of Game Files", it also gets stuck. It doesn't start nor fail, just infinitely checking something.

Strangely, browsing ProtonDB, I've seen no one had a similar issue. Even someone with exact same Distro had no problem whatsoever.

I don't know what to do now, so I'm asking for help, or just ideas for troubleshooting.

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System info

Operating System: Fedora Linux 37

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0

Qt Version: 5.15.9

Kernel Version: 6.4.4-100.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: X11

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: X570 GAMING X

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wine DarkSoulsIII.exe outputs:

002c:fixme:winediag:LdrInitializeThunk wine-staging 8.12 is a testing version containing experimental patches.

002c:fixme:winediag:LdrInitializeThunk Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.

0088:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

0088:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

0088:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

0088:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

0078:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0078:fixme:xrandr:xrandr10_get_current_mode Non- primary adapters are unsupported.

0034:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

002c:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

0024:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

0110:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.

[user@fedora Game]$ 0088:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled

type 00000005

0088:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!

0088:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!

0088:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!

0088:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented!

I used Fedora KDE since 36. I love the distro, for it adapts newer standard and kernel way faster, but still remain pretty reliable for the most part.

2 days ago I thought "It has been 2 months since 38 came out, it should be pretty safe to upgrade now"...long story short, I ended up wiping my installations. (Don't worry, I did back up my shit.)

KDE just straight up broke. No app can be launched through GUI, it claimed it has no memory to do the job while task manager shows 31 GB of memory is currently free. The only fix I found was to delete .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, which just straight up undo everything I've put into the desktop...so I just decided to export my flatpak installation list and do a fresh install. It can't go wrong with a fresh install right?

Annnnnnd it doesn't load. I don't know how, but the motherboard failed to load the new OS. I did the install again and got into GRUB successfully, I have no idea why second time works.

Well, now I got back to a functioning OS, I'll just quickly update, install Nvidia driver, and install my flatpak back...WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEED MORE INPUT? Turns out it's an ostree bug, just downgrading would fix it, but still, wtf.

Well whatever. I'll just install Steam, preparing to play CSGO with friends later...oh my god. EVERY NON-ENGLISH CHARACTER IS NOW A TOFU. In game text do display, but the fonts are all over the place, and switch system font setting doesn't do anything. Searched a bit, turns out Fedora 38 switched the default font to Variable Font, and somehow it turns the Noto into just the To.

Installing the old font with --allow-erase fixed that. Now, since CSGO on Wayland with Nvidia has refresh rate and latency issue, I'll switched to x11 very quickly...Hello, Steam? Where are you? It still shows in the task bar, but I can't bring the window out. Luckily I can still launch the game through the taskbar. Annnd the game randomly freezes, crashes with Steam every 10 minutes. My friend lost the match due to that.

So, did I mention I wiped my installs? Yap, I did it twice, I'm now a Fedora 37 user again. There were more things broken, I Ctrl+Alt+F2 couple of times, and I don't remember why.

Just a typical day for a Linux user, I think.