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Helldivers 2 not launching past 41.20250331 (in gamescope)

I've been stuck on 41.20250331 for the past few weeks due to an issue with HD2 where it fails to launch due to some change made in future versions that causes the game's anticheat GameGuard fail to launch the game (I would provide more detailed logs if I could, but GameGuard's crash logs are encrypted or something so all I can provide are snippets of a proton log)

20930.678:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO exception (code=c000008e) raised
…
20930.686:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_PRIV_INSTRUCTION exception (code=c0000096) raised

20930.678:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO exception (code=c000008e) raised
…
20930.686:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_PRIV_INSTRUCTION exception (code=c0000096) raised

20930.678:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO exception (code=c000008e) raised
…
20930.686:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_PRIV_INSTRUCTION exception (code=c0000096) raised

20930.678:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO exception (code=c000008e) raised
…
20930.686:0130:0134:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_PRIV_INSTRUCTION exception (code=c0000096) raised

Weirdly, the game does launch after a fresh boot once or twice, but then subsequently fails to launch until I roll back to 41.20250331.
The issue persists regardless of my launch args and proton version (tried 9.0-4, Experimental, Proton-GE, etc. to no avail).

Solution

appears to be fixed in either stable-42.20250519, stable-42.20250519.2.1, or stable-42.20250519.2!

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Eexx I've been stuck on 41.20250331 for the past few weeks due to an issue with HD2 w...

asen23•4/18/25, 6:21 AM

are you using gamescope?

Aasen23 are you using gamescope?

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:22 AM

I'm using steam in desktop mode, but I usually launch the game with gamescope in the launch args (though again, persists regardless of launch args)

Eexx I'm using steam in desktop mode, but I usually launch the game with gamescope in...

asen23•4/18/25, 6:23 AM

looking at proton github issue, someone recommended to add

--backend sdl

--backend sdl

as gamescope arg

asen23•4/18/25, 6:23 AM

maybe worth a try

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:23 AM

I'll try that out

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:34 AM

I am on 41.20250409.141.20250409.1 I had to redo shaders and it crashed after the nprotect pop up a few times but after trying to run the game 4ish times I seem to have gottenit to open

asen23•4/18/25, 6:37 AM

i am on 42.25041742.250417 and using LD_PRELOAD="" gamescope -W 2560 -H 1080 -f --adaptive-sync -- %command%LD_PRELOAD="" gamescope -W 2560 -H 1080 -f --adaptive-sync -- %command% with Proton Experimental
my first run is normal
my second run is normal (i also try solo games)
my third run ask for shader and then crashes
my fourth run is normal
i dont reboot inbetween

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:37 AM

I have found for a few games I can't use past proton ge 9-22 I have not tested with different versions yet again recently, but it does seem helldivers is having issues on bazzite atm

Eexx I'm using steam in desktop mode, but I usually launch the game with gamescope in...

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:38 AM

actually it does appear to be gamescope-related, doesn't crash without gamescope my bad

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:38 AM

unfortunately that launch arg doesn't fix it

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:39 AM

my helldivers does some super weird lag without gamescope

asen23•4/18/25, 6:39 AM

i use gamescope to avoid that 1 pixel white border

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:40 AM

it doesn't lag for me without gamescope, but it will frequently crash when I tab out in fullscreen and there's the white border in windowed borderless

asen23•4/18/25, 6:40 AM

the fullscreen is bugged as hell

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:40 AM

pretty annoying either way I go without gamescope yeah

Aasen23 i use gamescope to avoid that 1 pixel white border 😂

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:40 AM

that boarder was why I left ubuntu back on 24.04 because gamescope was not in repos

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:41 AM

but the game also just does not run right anymore after an update a few months ago without using gamescope

asen23•4/18/25, 6:41 AM

well this issue is also reported outside bazzite

asen23•4/18/25, 6:41 AM

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7486#issuecomment-2800548099

GitHub

HELLDIVERS™ 2 (553850) · Issue #7486 · ValveSoftware/Proton

Compatibility Report Name of the game with compatibility issues: HELLDIVERS™ 2 Steam AppID of the game: 553850 System Information GPU: AMD Radeon 7900XTX Video driver version: snapshot of future 24...

asen23•4/18/25, 6:41 AM

@exx might worth adding your report there

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:43 AM

my issue is different from that, it's GameGuard itself that crashes in gamescope

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:43 AM

so the game won't even launch

asen23•4/18/25, 6:43 AM

btw did you try to recreate the prefix?

Aasen23 btw did you try to recreate the prefix?

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:44 AM

which prefix?

asen23•4/18/25, 6:44 AM

your hd2 proton prefix

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:44 AM

I cry everytime

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:45 AM

recording has been fine for me aside from the fact that I lose 10 fps that I really don't want to because I can barely crack 60 without it lol

Aasen23 your hd2 proton prefix

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:46 AM

I don't have a special proton prefix, it's just whatever comes with steam by default

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:46 AM

HD2 is opening just fine now after it had it's tantrum crashing a few times

asen23•4/18/25, 6:46 AM

every game that is run by proton will create a prefix

asen23•4/18/25, 6:47 AM

sometimes when switching proton version, the prefix need to be recreated

asen23•4/18/25, 6:47 AM

it can fix some issue

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:47 AM

idk how I would do that, unless you mean deleting the WINE files

Azema Viator•4/18/25, 6:47 AM

i don't think I have ever cleared a steam game prefix before

asen23•4/18/25, 6:48 AM

protontricks > hd2 > select default wineprefix > delete all data

asen23•4/18/25, 6:48 AM

if the games have no cloud save, youll need to backup save first, but hd2 save are in cloud so not necessary

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:50 AM

unfortunately did not fix it

asen23•4/18/25, 6:51 AM

welp, i got no other fixes that i know of

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:56 AM

I checked and the version of gamescope 41.20250331 (working) and 42.20250417 (broken) is the same aside from the version of gcc they were built with

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:56 AM

both 3.15.9-23-gd317492+

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:57 AM

my only guess would be it's due to the MESA update introduced somewhere around 41.20250409

exxOP•4/18/25, 6:58 AM

that's where it stopped working for me, but I didn't check every version to find out exactly where it stopped launching

Eexx unfortunately did not fix it

exxOP•4/18/25, 7:04 AM

still works just fine after I roll back though

biebel•4/18/25, 6:17 PM

Same issue for me only with gamescope. Opened a ticket with arrowhead, but got the predicable reply that they don't support linux. Playing with fps limit and adaptive sync in fullscreen is makes it playable imo. Miss the hdr tho

biebel•4/18/25, 6:18 PM

fps limit and adaptive sync set in mangohud