Satisfactory launches to black screen (inconsistent)

Been having this weird, inconsistent issue with Satisfactory, it launches to a black screen a lot of the time, and when trying to figure out the root cause of the issue it suddenly works again, and never when fiddling with the same settings.

Running on a MSI Leopard, i7-10750H, RTX 2070 Super latest Nvidia driver.

Fedora 43 KDE Plasma, GE-Proton latest.

When it launches properly it runs well, both in DX12 and Vulkan.

Usually if I set game arguments to -DX12 it launches to a black screen with the main menu audio.
Using -Vulkan it launches to black screen then crashes, showing the crash handler window in the task bar only.

Have tried to disable umu, gamescope is removed, have tried without Gamemode, using Steam Runtime, PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 is active.
When the game launches and runs properly none of these seem to affect it anyways.

I'm a bit stumped by this, and as a relative beginner in Linux I'm figuring out a lot of this as I go.

Links to logs, have saved logs of it working, crashing, and audio on black screen.

https://pastebin.com/c6k0FuXG
https://pastebin.com/0rtFbVDD
https://pastebin.com/mejmsWEw

Although I enjoy messing around with these things, my girlfriend prefers it when she can actually play

Hope someone has any good ideas, and thanks in advance to anyone spending their time on this

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awake-maroon•11/26/25, 12:41 PM

disable this option

preferSystemLibs

preferSystemLibs

remove this env variable PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPIPROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI

remove the launcher arguments

and try again and share a new log if it still fails

dead-brownOP•12/3/25, 6:51 PM

Hi, been away for a little while, but finally got around to try and figure this out.

However, I cannot, for the life of me, find a preferSystemLibs option that I can disable in the game settings.
Did find some info that said it should be under "other" in "game settings", but there is no such option.

awake-maroon•12/3/25, 6:54 PM

looks like we hide and ignore the prefer system libraries option when ge-proton is selected, so don't worry about it

dead-brownOP•12/4/25, 4:47 PM

Okay, so I removed the PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPIPROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI, and it still fails.

Logs attached at link.

https://0x0.st/KteL.log

technical-ivory•12/4/25, 4:54 PM

Looks like nvidia-wayland problem.
Start kwin in X11 mode and try again?

dead-brownOP•12/4/25, 8:17 PM

Hmm, okay, so after installing plasma-workspace-x11plasma-workspace-x11, and logging in to a x11 session the game starts as normal and seems to work (at least for now, usually takes overnight for it to stop working again after randomly working sometimes), logs here https://0x0.st/KtOU.log if of any interest.

Weirdly it now also works again under wayland, when I switched back, logs here for that https://0x0.st/KtOU.log.

Any ideas why? Because the x11 session has some other issues that needs solving that are fine in Wayland.

Ddead-brown Hmm, okay, so after installing `plasma-workspace-x11`, and logging in to a x11 s...

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:19 AM

nvidia is just weird on linux, it's improving a lot though

I'd tell you to buy amd but stock is about to dry up before a 10% price hike due to ram shortages rip.

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:20 AM

At least valve is trying to make 8G last longer by setting it as a standard with the steamcube so your GPU will age ok until the next generation

dead-brownOP•12/6/25, 9:21 AM

Yeah, I know, my desktop setup is all AMD and works flawlessly, kinda regretting getting this laptop for my GF, but it was so cheap after I fixed it up

dead-brownOP•12/6/25, 9:23 AM

Hopefully the RAM prices will stabilize in a few years, still happy with my 6900xt for now, did have a look at the B580 for a potential desktop setup instead of the Nvidia laptop, prices seem nice, and performance seems adequate, just barely startet getting into figuring out if it's better than Nvidia on Linux

Ddead-brown Hopefully the RAM prices will stabilize in a few years, still happy with my 6900...

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:24 AM

6900XT is a lot of power I got on on launch and replaced it with a 9070XT on launch, selling it covered a big chunk of the cost of the new card

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:25 AM

If AMD makes an IGP more powerful than the AMD Radeon 8060S (the 395 gpu) I don't really need a dedicated card any more at that point.

dead-brownOP•12/6/25, 9:26 AM

Yeah, been looking at the 9070xt as a possible upgrade, but I'm not doing any 4k stuff, very happy with 1440p and don't really feel the need to max out all the settings on everything, so this seems to hit the sweet spot, cheapest card is the one you already have I guess

dead-brownOP•12/6/25, 9:29 AM

I would have bought a gaming laptop with a AMD dGPU but have the feeling that they are not close to the Nvidia laptop dGPU lineup, an also not nearly as popular, so difficult to finde second hand (I like buying tired and broken stuff for cheap and try to repair it).

dead-brownOP•12/6/25, 9:33 AM

Anyways, logging in to a x11 session seems to work, so guess I'll just do that for now at least, thanks for all the help and tips, it really helps a lot, love poking around and learning how it all works under the hood but that takes a lot of time without guidance

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:38 AM

Fedora is a weird distro for gaming because with nvidia it's more for AI than gaming.
Bazzite is fedora remade specifically for gaming and supports most nvidia gpus(if you download the nvidia version, the default is amd)), not all, but quite a few.

technical-ivory•12/6/25, 9:40 AM

satisfactory fortunately will fit to run on many gpus, although in multiplayer the host needs a powerful cpu to handle guests

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