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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/ScienceMarc on 2025-03-06 22:20:36+00:00.
This morning, I got up at 4AM and got in line at my local Microcenter, and after many hours of standing in the cold, I managed to get myself an RX 9070XT.
This is the first time I'm getting a GPU on launch, and there seems to be some growing pains. Namely, every single game I run through Proton on steam gives me a black screen before crashing.
Testing a few games, it seems to be limited to games which utilize the GPU and run through Proton. Basically the only games that work right now are Valve games.
I am running on NixOS, and I've tried specifically loading the AMDGPU module, as well as upgrading my kernel version to the latest git version (6.14-RC5), just to make sure I have the latest version of the relevant drivers. I'm running on Hyprland (Wayland based compositor).
I've tried to run games using Proton Experimental and Proton Hotfix, with no change between them.
I will keep trying to troubleshoot to see if I can get my library working, but I assume I'm going to have to wait on Valve or something to fix Proton.
I'll update if I get things working on my own. I'm just hoping some of you might have an idea as to why things don't work.
Edit: switching to nixpkgs-master granted me access to mesa 25.0.1, and after booting into X11 KDE, I was able to get games to launch. Though things seem pretty unstable, with several of the games I tried suddenly freezing the system and crashing. Things will likely be fine in a week or two.