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thomas83 2 Aug @ 2:58am
Gothic on Linux Mint causes black screen on start
Hi - I'm very new to linux.
I installed linux mint cinnamon and steam and a couple of games.
Very few games run out of the box but most cause problems.

When I start Gothic 3 (Proton 10.0-2 beta) the game seems to run - I can hear the intro sounds and can even skip them till I'm in the main menu - ONLY that there is only a black screen. What can I do?

System details:
Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.1
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor × 8
Gigabyte Radeon RX9070 XT Gaming OC 16 GB


Any step by step help appreciated. Since I'm really new to linux...
Thank you!
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Yoth 5 Aug @ 11:21am 
Gothic3 uses DX9. Try Proton 9. If that also doesn't work add the launch option:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
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_@N+0n_n3trUnnER_ 7 Aug @ 4:17am 
Originally posted by Yoth:
Gothic3 uses DX9. Try Proton 9. If that also doesn't work add the launch option:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
proton version has nothing to do with dx version. trying older proton versions might help, but for different reasons.
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Yoth 7 Aug @ 5:28am 
Originally posted by _@N+0n_n3trUnnER_:
proton version has nothing to do with dx version
I just mentioned DX9 for context. I didn't mean that the 9 in Proton 9 stands for DX9 if that's what you're implying. Proton 9 is just the previous version that comes before 10 (the current version) and has different screen and input handling. It's always worth a try if games give you trouble. It's usually not worth trying anything lower than 9. The other option is using the WineD3D OpenGL implementation instead of DXVK.
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