Launching via edLauncher screen goes blank

[spherelance]

Got a strange one. Launching the game via steam everything goes fine, you see the initial video, etc.

Launching via edLaucher you hear the audio of initial video but the screen is black.

Attached is the log, if you need extra info just ask. min-ed-launcher.log

[rfvgyhn]

I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but I have seen the black screen issue when the launcher wouldn't pass on all the correct proton info. Do you have the same issue with different versions of proton?

[spherelance]

Tried it with Proton 8.0-2 and it worked. Tried it with GE-Proton 8.1, 8.2 & 8.3 and it didn't so looks like it is something GE-Proton does different that edLauncher is having a problem with.

[spherelance]

GE-Proton 8.4 released and still the same happens. Is there a way to see what is passed on by both the GE & non-GE versions of proton?

[rfvgyhn]

I just tried out GE 8.4 and I didn't run into any issues.

• When you say launching via steam, you mean the default launcher right? Or are you launching the min launcher outside of steam?
• Have you tried creating a new wine prefix with the different versions of proton?
• Maybe there's a video card/driver issue? I'm using an AMD RX 5700 with Mesa 23.1.2.

To compare the arguments steam passes on, you can look at the Args section of the log file (the entry after [INF] Elite Dangerous: Minimal Launcher - v...). That won't show you env vars though. To do that, you'd have to change your launch options to point to a shell script that inspects them with something like printenv.

[spherelance]

I've changed the steam launch options to: alacritty -e ./MinEdLauncher %command% /autorun /autoquit /edo

When I have GE 8.4 set I see a black screen but hear the music, with non-GE 8.0-2 it shows the loading screen.

If I use the default steam launcher (ie not using MinEd) it'll load fine with GE and non-GE proton

I've a nVidia GeForce GTX 1650 driver 525.116.04

[spherelance]

Tried again using gnome-terminal and it worked so looks like it isn't a MinEd issue

Thanks for the time you've spent though