Proton / Wine Prefix crashes

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My video games frequently crash when I create new Wine/Proton prefixes or modify existing ones. Although restarting the system restores game functionality, both shutdown and restart take significantly longer when a crash has occurred.

The root cause of this issue is currently unknown to me, but I would like to improve the system’s stability (if there is a reliable way to do so).

Here are the logs:

Proton: Executable a unix path, launching with /unix option.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
fsync: up and running.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
Command exited with status: 0
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
err:   DxvkInstance::createInstance: Failed to create Vulkan instance
err:   Failed to initialize DXVK.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
[umu.umu_run:693] DEBUG: Child 81274 exited with wait status: 0
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 0
2

Make sure you have the gamemode package installed,
You may need to install the i686 as well as the x86_64 versions,

3

It seems that I have no gamemode installed on my system

dnf list installed | grep gamemode

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
No matching packages to list
4

Cool you know why the error message is logged.

Do you know how to install it?

5

you checked whether package with the name ‘installed’ is available on your system.

you wanted to do dnf list --installed or rpm -qa

$ dnf list installed
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
No matching packages to list

$ dnf list --installed | wc -l
2139
6

Scott, before we proceed with your suggestion I would like to present the research I done in the meantime. Is this approach valid?:

Installing the 32 bit version of vulkan

  1. Test if the 32 bit version is installed
rpm -q vulkan-loader-32bit
rpm -q mesa-vulkan-drivers-32bit

If the following message come back (which it did):

package vulkan-loader-32bit is not installed
package mesa-vulkan-drivers-32bit is not installed

means that the 32-bit Vulkan libraries are missing on your Fedora system. As a result, 32-bit applications – such as many Windows games running via Wine or Proton – cannot use Vulkan support. This leads to errors like:

  • Failed to create Vulkan instance
  • DXVK initialization failed

These libraries are necessary for Vulkan to work properly in 32-bit applications

  1. Install all required Vulkan-Packeges
sudo dnf install vulkan-loader vulkan-loader-32bit
sudo dnf install mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers-32bit
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I used the following command Mark

dnf list --installed | grep gamemode

I got the following message back:

gamemode.i686                                        1.8.2-2.fc42                         <unknown>
gamemode.x86_64                                      1.8.2-2.fc42                         <unknown>
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I used the command for the Vulkan 32 bit version and got this back:

 google-chrome                                                                                                                                                              100% |  10.6 KiB/s |   1.3 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                                                                               100% |   5.4 MiB/s |   6.9 MiB |  00m01s
 Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek                                                                                                                                     100% |   7.4 KiB/s |   4.1 KiB |  00m01s
 google-chrome                                                                                                                                                              100% |  24.6 KiB/s |   3.3 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                                                                                                   100% |  10.8 KiB/s |   5.8 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 42 - x86_64                                                                                                                                                         100% |  19.1 MiB/s |  35.4 MiB |  00m02s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver                                                                                                                         100% |  32.5 KiB/s |  17.7 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - Steam                                                                                                                                 100% |  22.1 KiB/s |  13.4 KiB |  00m01s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Package "vulkan-loader-1.4.313.0-1.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "vulkan-loader-1.4.313.0-1.fc42.i686" is already installed.
No match for argument: vulkan-loader-32bit
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Package "mesa-vulkan-drivers-25.0.7-2.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "mesa-vulkan-drivers-25.0.7-2.fc42.i686" is already installed.
No match for argument: mesa-vulkan-drivers-32bit
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

So if I am not mistaken, the conclusion is: gamemode 32 bit and vulkan 32 bit are already installed