I've run steam with a few games already such as Final Fantasy III and Alan Wake, but I can't get steam to boot. It'll boot to a white screen in windowed mode and then the window closes. I'm not sure how to check the steam logs, and if it helps I'm using 'primusrun %command%' in the properties of the game (though this issue occurred before and after this). I'm also running on the Dell XPS 9560 with bumblebee for my nvidia driver.
To see some output in steam run it in a terminal. (Just open a terminal type steam and hit enter.) Wait for steam to launch properly and look in the terminal to see where the output ends. Assuming steam itself runs okay (this was not clear to me) then launch Dark Souls II and see what else is in the output.
According to https://www.protondb.com/app/236430 it should more or less work.
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steam also logs things itself by default.
I'm too busy to look it up for you right now.
magnanimous of you 
There are various logs kept by steam itself in /home/USERNAME/.steam/steam/logs/, in fact 15 updated when I ran steam earlier today. Although there is generally not much of use in them unless you already know approximately what you are looking for. (Maybe you can add more?)
A lot of games also keep their own logs (of game problems rather than steam ones) in their own locations, often somewhere like /home/USERNAME/Documents/GAMENAME/ or /home/USERNAME/Documents/My Games/GAMENAME/.
Here though I suspect it may be a case of a missing library on the Manjaro side. Regardless the terminal output is likely to be of much more use, at least for the early stages of diagnosis/triage.
Have you tried switching proton versions in the Steam settings?
I have tried running it with both non-beta versions of proton. This game worked previously when I was using ubuntu without issues.
When I ran it from steam it gave the following issues:
>>> Adding process 4163 for game ID 335300
GameAction [AppID 335300, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
GameAction [AppID 335300, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4164 for game ID 335300
JS method call SharedConnection.SendMsgAndAwaitResponse with 3 arguments
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4215 for game ID 335300
>>> Adding process 4216 for game ID 335300
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4218 for game ID 335300
>>> Adding process 4221 for game ID 335300
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4223 for game ID 335300
>>> Adding process 4226 for game ID 335300
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4235 for game ID 335300
>>> Adding process 4240 for game ID 335300
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4246 for game ID 335300
Game update: AppID 335300 "", ProcID 4216, IP 0.0.0.0:0
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".
Game update: AppID 335300 "", ProcID 4216, IP 0.0.0.0:0
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x14095825b (thread 0024), starting debugger...
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/robert/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4256 for game ID 335300
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 64-bit code (0x000000014095825b).
Register dump:
rip:000000014095825b rsp:000000000022ee20 rbp:000000000022ef20 eflags:00010202 ( R- -- I - - - )
rax:0000000000000000 rbx:0000000000000000 rcx:0000000000000000 rdx:00000000005000b0
rsi:000000000022f580 rdi:00007ffffed60cf0 r8:0000000000000000 r9:0000000000500178 r10:0000000000500000
r11:000000000052b8b0 r12:0000000000103a68 r13:0000000000000000 r14:00000000647761c0 r15:0000000000103a68
Stack dump:
0x000000000022ee20: 0000000000000000 000000000022f160
0x000000000022ee30: 00007f8509ba32a0 0000000000103a68
0x000000000022ee40: 0000000000000000 0000000000000040
0x000000000022ee50: 0000000000000000 0000000000103a68
0x000000000022ee60: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022ee70: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022ee80: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022ee90: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022eea0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022eeb0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000000022eec0: 000000000022f0f0 fffffffffffffffe
0x000000000022eed0: 000000000022f0f0 000000000022f0f0
Backtrace:
=>0 0x000000014095825b in darksoulsii (+0x95825b) (0x000000000022ef20)
1 0x0000000140ae3b7e in darksoulsii (+0xae3b7d) (0x000000000022f620)
2 0x0000000140ae74b2 in darksoulsii (+0xae74b1) (0x000000000022f879)
3 0x00000001402e550f in darksoulsii (+0x2e550e) (0x000000000022f9e0)
4 0x0000000140c295e0 in darksoulsii (+0xc295df) (0x000000000022ffd0)
5 0x000000007b4779ee start_process+0xfd() in kernel32 (0x000000000022ffd0)
0x000000014095825b: movq (%rax),%rcx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (110 modules)
PE 230000- 2b4000 Deferred fmod_event64
PE 630000- 6c4000 Deferred openvr_api_dxvk
PE 3b400000- 3b421000 Deferred steam_api64
PE 6a340000- 6a54c000 Deferred d3d11
PE 6f200000- 6f3a1000 Deferred dxgi
ELF 7b400000- 7b811000 Export kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b420000- 7b811000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000- 7bd37000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc20000- 7bd37000 \ ntdll
ELF 7c000000- 7c003000 Deferred <wine-loader>
PE 140000000- 1420b6000 Export darksoulsii
PE 180000000- 1801c6000 Deferred fmodex64
ELF 7f85060af000- 7f85060d0000 Deferred libudev.so.1
ELF 7f8506500000- 7f8506515000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1<elf>
\-PE 7f8506510000- 7f8506515000 \ api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1
ELF 7f8506515000- 7f850673e000 Deferred libpng12.so.0
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\-PE 7f85081a0000- 7f850832f000 \ lsteamclient
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\-PE 7f8508340000- 7f850836d000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7f850836d000- 7f85083c6000 Deferred libvulkan.so.1
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ELF 7f85085cc000- 7f85087d6000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7f85087d6000- 7f85087e3000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7f85087e3000- 7f85087f6000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7f85087f6000- 7f85089f9000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
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ELF 7f8508bff000- 7f8508e02000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7f8508e14000- 7f8508e28000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1<elf>
\-PE 7f8508e20000- 7f8508e28000 \ api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1
ELF 7f8508e28000- 7f8508e3d000 Deferred api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0<elf>
\-PE 7f8508e30000- 7f8508e3d000 \ api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0
ELF 7f8508e3d000- 7f8508ee6000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7f8508e50000- 7f8508ee6000 \ winex11
ELF 7f8508f9b000- 7f8508fd7000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7f8508fd7000- 7f850901e000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7f850901e000- 7f8509091000 Deferred libpcre.so.1
ELF 7f8509091000- 7f85090b6000 Deferred libgraphite2.so.3
ELF 7f85090b6000- 7f85091d9000 Deferred libglib-2.0.so.0
ELF 7f85091d9000- 7f85092da000 Deferred libharfbuzz.so.0
ELF 7f85092da000- 7f85094f1000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7f85094f1000- 7f8509529000 Deferred libpng16.so.16
ELF 7f8509529000- 7f850953c000 Deferred libbz2.so.1.0
ELF 7f850953c000- 7f8509805000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7f8509840000- 7f8509859000 Deferred xinput1_3<elf>
\-PE 7f8509850000- 7f8509859000 \ xinput1_3
ELF 7f8509859000- 7f85098a7000 Deferred usp10<elf>
\-PE 7f8509860000- 7f85098a7000 \ usp10
ELF 7f85098a7000- 7f85099fe000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7f85098b0000- 7f85099fe000 \ comctl32
ELF 7f85099fe000- 7f8509b47000 Deferred libsdl2-2.0.so.0
ELF 7f8509b50000- 7f8509b59000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7f8509b59000- 7f8509b82000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7f8509b60000- 7f8509b82000 \ imm32
ELF 7f8509b82000- 7f8509bdf000 Deferred dinput8<elf>
\-PE 7f8509b90000- 7f8509bdf000 \ dinput8
ELF 7f8509bdf000- 7f8509d57000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7f8509c00000- 7f8509d57000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7f8509d57000- 7f8509e2d000 Deferred msvcrt<elf>
\-PE 7f8509d70000- 7f8509e2d000 \ msvcrt
ELF 7f8509e2d000- 7f8509e7a000 Deferred winevulkan<elf>
\-PE 7f8509e40000- 7f8509e7a000 \ winevulkan
ELF 7f8509e7a000- 7f8509e93000 Deferred vulkan-1<elf>
\-PE 7f8509e80000- 7f8509e93000 \ vulkan-1
ELF 7f8509e93000- 7f8509ec3000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7f8509ea0000- 7f8509ec3000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7f8509ec3000- 7f8509ee0000 Deferred wsock32<elf>
\-PE 7f8509ed0000- 7f8509ee0000 \ wsock32
ELF 7f8509ee0000- 7f8509f23000 Deferred ws2_32<elf>
\-PE 7f8509ef0000- 7f8509f23000 \ ws2_32
ELF 7f8509f23000- 7f8509fb4000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7f8509f40000- 7f8509fb4000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7f8509fb4000- 7f850a9bb000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7f8509fd0000- 7f850a9bb000 \ shell32
ELF 7f850a9bb000- 7f850a9e9000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7f850a9c0000- 7f850a9e9000 \ msacm32
ELF 7f850a9e9000- 7f850aa82000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7f850aa00000- 7f850aa82000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7f850aa82000- 7f850ac24000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7f850aab0000- 7f850ac24000 \ ole32
ELF 7f850ac24000- 7f850ac3f000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7f850ac30000- 7f850ac3f000 \ version
ELF 7f850ac3f000- 7f850acd1000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7f850ac50000- 7f850acd1000 \ advapi32
ELF 7f850acd1000- 7f850ae4f000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7f850acf0000- 7f850ae4f000 \ gdi32
ELF 7f850ae4f000- 7f850b0b2000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7f850ae70000- 7f850b0b2000 \ user32
ELF 7f850b1b2000- 7f850b278000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7f850b1c0000- 7f850b278000 \ winmm
ELF 7f850cb05000- 7f850cd17000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7f850cd17000- 7f850cdd3000 Deferred libgldispatch.so.0
ELF 7f850cdd3000- 7f850ce06000 Deferred libglx.so.0
ELF 7f850d0af000- 7f850d0e2000 Deferred libglapi.so.0
ELF 7f850d0e7000- 7f850d2ed000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7f850d2ed000- 7f850d4f1000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7f850d4f1000- 7f850d51b000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7f850d51d000- 7f850d537000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7f850d537000- 7f850d676000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7f850d676000- 7f850d7fb000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7f850d98a000- 7f850d98f000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF 7f850d98f000- 7f850d999000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 7f850d99b000- 7f850d9df000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF 7f850d9df000- 7f850dba3000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF 7f850dba3000- 7f850dbc4000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF 7f850dbca000- 7f850dbdf000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7f850dbff000- 7f850dfa5000 Export libwine.so.1
ELF 7f850dfa5000- 7f850e1e0000 Deferred gameoverlayrenderer.so
ELF 7f850e1e2000- 7f850e20e000 Deferred ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000c services.exe
0000001f 0
0000001a 0
00000016 0
00000013 0
00000012 0
00000011 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f winedevice.exe
00000017 0
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
00000018 plugplay.exe
0000001c 0
0000001b 0
00000019 0
0000001d winedevice.exe
00000022 0
00000021 0
00000020 0
0000001e 0
00000023 (D) Z:\home\robert\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\Game\DarkSoulsII.exe
0000002e 0
0000002d -1
0000002c 0
0000002b 0
0000002a 0
00000024 0 <==
00000025 explorer.exe
00000029 0
00000028 0
00000027 0
00000026 0
System information:
Wine build: wine-3.16
Platform: x86_64
Version: Windows 7
Host system: Linux
Host version: 4.19.16-1-MANJARO
pid 4219 != 4218, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game removed: AppID 335300 "", ProcID 4216
No cached sticky mapping in ActivateActionSet.
I looked up the LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded on the wiki and it said that was safe to ignore, but I don't know what I'm looking at with the rest of the error.
I believe your issue is with Bumblebee, see issue #137;
The above issue was caused by Bumblebee somehow messing things up. After I switched to using nvidia-xrun instead of Bumblebee, Dark Souls works fine in full screen. I've yet to try other resolutions than my laptop's native one but i expect it to be only a matter of configuring Xorg and/or Openbox.
follow jonathons prime guide and get rid of bumblebee
you will never come back
I tried setting up prime with that the other day after I installed Manjaro but then something happened with my display manager and I had to reinstall Manjaro.
Also is there a difference between nvidia-xrun and prime?
I have always been curious, and this seems to fit the bill here, why do you need the Intel GPU?
I have both nvidia card and baked-in Intel GPU from my motherboard, but I see no reason to ever use the Intel since Nvidia with the nvidia drivers works so well in Manjaro. I was always curious why people need to switch back and forth.
Honestly I have no need to switch between the two but im still super new to Manjaro so I'm not sure how to just use my Nvidia. I've been on ubuntu for like 2 years but got this new laptop and wanted to try Manjaro.
I use nvidia-xrun for proton games (kingdom come/ Project cars 2/DS2 soon, still need to finish the first).
When I have to launch a game through proton I just go to an other TTY, and type nvidia-xrun which will start a DE depending on ~/.nvidia-xinitrc, kde for me:
$ cat .nvidia-xinitrc
startkde
No need to remove bumblebee.
That is kind of what I was hoping you would say. For me, wouldn't worry about using the Intel GPU, and all that Bumblebee/nvidia-xrun/prime hocus-pocus.
- Remove Bumblebee (you will have to google that, I have never used it myself)
- There is a Manjaro settings manager in your toolbox (applications menu), fasten on your tool belt and hit the 'hardware configuration' application.
- Hit the 'Auto install proprietary drivers' button, and that should install the proprietary nvidia graphics drivers...reboot, and hello Dark Souls II (hopefully.)
And ALWAYS... Ask your doctor if Bumblebee is right for you! 
the optimus-manager git give a nice summary of available tools:
However, on Linux, the Nvidia driver does not provide such offloading capabilities (yet), which makes it difficult to use the full potential of your machine while keeping a reasonable battery life.
Currently, if you have Linux installed on an Optimus laptop, there are three methods to use your Nvidia GPU :
1 Run your whole X session on the Intel GPU and use Bumblebee to offload rendering to the Nvidia GPU. While this mimic the behavior of Optimus on Windows, this is an unofficial, hacky solution with three major drawbacks : 1. a noticeable performance hit (because Bumblebee has to use your CPU to copy frames over to the display) 2. no support for Vulkan (therefore, it is incompatible with DXVK and any native game using Vulkan, like Shadow of the Tomb Raider for instance) 3. you will be unable to use any video output (like HDMI ports) connected to the Nvidia GPU, unless you have the open-source nouveau driver loaded to this GPU at the same time.
2 Use nvidia-xrun to have the Nvidia GPU run on its own X server in another virtual terminal. You have to keep two X servers running at the same time, which can be detrimental to performance. Also, you do not have acess to your normal desktop environment while in the virtual terminal of the Nvidia GPU, and in my own experience, the nvidia driver is prone to crashing when switching between virtual terminals.
3 Run your whole X session on the Nvidia GPU and disable rendering on the Intel GPU. This allows you to run your applications at full performance, with Vulkan support, and with access to all video outputs. However, since your power-hungry Nvidia GPU is turned on at all times, it has a massive impact on your battery life. This method is often called Nvidia PRIME, although technically PRIME is just the technology that allows your Nvidia GPU to send its frames to the built-in display of your laptop via the Intel GPU.
An acceptable middle ground could be to use the third method on demand : switching the X session to the Nvidia GPU when you need extra rendering power, and then switching it back to Intel when you are done, to save battery life.
Unfortunately the X server configuration is set-up in a permanent manner with configuration files, which makes switching a hassle because you have to rewrite those files every time you want to switch GPUs. You also have to restart the X server for those changes to be taken into account.
This is what this tool does for you : it dynamically writes the X configuration at boot time, rewrites it every time you need to switch GPUs, and also loads the appropriate kernel modules to make sure your GPUs are properly turned on/off.
Note that this is nothing new : Ubuntu has been using that method for years with their prime-select script.
So you're telling me this will just allow me to use Nvidia without needing bumblebee/prime/nvidia-xrun?
Yes.
As Yoy0 pointed out, if you need to switch to the Intel GPU for power saving, given you are on a laptop, then you can use the method they mentioned, else just install the proprietary driver from Manjaro Settings Mgr and you are running pure Nvidia...and hopefully have no issues with Proton in Steam. Good luck, and mark the thread as 'solved' if it works.
Is Dark Souls II using DX11? If so, you need working vulkan and bumblebee is not supporting it. For vulkan you need to switch to nvidia-xrun or Prime, or optimus-manager. There are guides how to use them on this forum.
However, I'm just guessing, this may be caused by something different thou, but it's good to remember that dxvk won't be working when using bumblebee, so lot of Steam Play games are not playable with bumblebee (among them Witcher 3) so it's worth to look for alternatives. Optimus-manager worked well for me.
I got it solved. Using nvidia-xrun works flawlessly. It seemed like a pretty simple solution and worked great!
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There is a simple solution to play this game in Linux via steam play on optimus laptop without nvidia-xrun
just use start command:
__GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 primusrun %command%
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