witcher 3 stuck at 10% loading
I recently got a steam deck and downloaded heroic launcher to get gog working for Witcher 3. I used flatpak for the install and everything went smoothly. It’s until I select “new game” and the opening cutscene plays and the tutorial tries to load where it seems to be stuck in a loop with no progress on the loading bar. Sometimes the loading screen will be black with the hints and loading circle still showing other times there will be the normal background. I’ve tried downloading the proton hot fix and checking flatpak for updates using the provided console command in #🆘-support and still can’t get it to work, any help would be appreciated. No mods installed btw
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variable-lime•3y ago
Logs, please.
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Sorry thought I included it in the original post hehe my bad 😅
ambitious-aqua•3y ago
looks like it's trying to read a file from
/tmp? make sure Heroic has permissions to read/write to the /tmp folder just in case, you can use Flatseal for thatafraid-scarletOP•3y ago
So I’m looking at heroic on flat seal, how exactly would I allow it permission like you said?
ambitious-aqua•3y ago
there should be a section in flatseal listing directories heroic has access to
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Ah found it lemme try doing that now~
I’m so sorry my brain isn’t working right now where would I find the tmp folder at?
ambitious-aqua•3y ago
I guess it's at the root of the
/ , /tmp
if you can add a folder writing the path just write /tmp in there
I don't have flatseal on this computer to give more detailsafraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Uhhhh okay lemme see what I can do, thank you so much for your help btw especially with my lizard brain rn lol
Oh found it okay let’s see here
Damn still not working, I added “/home/.steamos/offload/var/tmp/ to the accessible files, was that wrong or is it maybe something else?
Trying something real quick
Ah damn yea nah still out of luck, did I maybe path the tmp file wrong?
If you don't have any progress in the game yet, your best bet is to use Wine-GE instead. Proton, especially Proton Hotfix, will not work as well in Heroic
Install Wine-GE from the Wine Manager within Heroic, select it in the game settings, enable "Auto Install/Update DXVK on Prefix" & you should be good to go
Note that you want to run the DX11 version of the game (in the game settings, expand the "Other" section, click the file picker icon for "Select an alternative EXE to run" and select
<path to game>/bin/x64/witcher3.exe)afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Sweet will definitely give this a try here in a sec
Still no success, I installed wine ge and have it on auto update, and pathed the exe for dx11 and still stuck at loading
Here I can grab the log for it in a sec
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Hmm, nothing obvious there
In terms of in-game settings: Could you make sure that "NVIDIA HairWorks" is turned off?
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Yea lemme do that
(you also don't want anything Raytracing-related to be enabled, but that isn't in the DX11 version to begin with, so we're good there)
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Yea it’s off
Very odd
Have you tried verifying your game files?
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
I-
🤦♂️
Son of a-
The one time
The one time
I don’t verify the game files because it’s never worked before
And it works
I mean I’m sure it still needed to run on dx11 and use wine instead of proton and such
But shoot thank y’all for your help with my dumbass, true saints
Proton & DX12 would've likely still worked, but with Wine-GE & DX11 you generally get the better experience (Wine provides more logs, so in case anything ever goes wrong, we can likely figure out what; DX11 is just simply faster)
afraid-scarletOP•3y ago
Cool cool, still yea thanks again for your help~ I really appreciate you taking the time for me