Trying to get Xenia to run, but so far no luck...

[cyberwolfie1]

I have spent several hours now trying to get Xenia to run with Bottles. I had it running at the start of the day through EmuDeck, and could play one of my old Xbox 360 games on it, but I really didn't like EmuDeck and thought I could get it running myself and uninstall EmuDeck. But I've had no luck so far, so I'm posting here as a last resort.

I tried going through their bash scripts to find how they did it, and they seem to invoke Proton directly from the Steam-directory. I am not used to reading bash-scripts though, and I got lost in exactly how they call it, and I think I need something like Bottles to help me get things right...

I have Bottles 51.17 installed through Flatpak. First of, I can't launch it unless I run GSK_RENDERER=ngl flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles in the Terminal. Otherwise it just crashes - is there a way to solve this more permanent? I am using Wayland. I also get tons of warnings from the Terminal window I am running: (bottles:2): Gdk-WARNING **: 22:35:17.934: ../gdk/wayland/gdkcursor-wayland.c:210 cursor image size (96) not an integer multiple of theme size (36).

Ok, so to the actual issues I am facing:

I have made a Bottle to launch Xenia (or rather, Xenia Canary) through. I have tried the following runners:

• ge-proton9-21
• wine-ge-proton8-26
• soda-9.0-1
• sys-wine-9.0

My guess is I want to use either ge-proton9-21 or wine-ge-proton8-26. Under DXVK I have dxvk-2.5.1 and under VKD3D I have vkd3d-proton-2.14.

I have via Flatseal given access to my local Steam-folder, so under "Compatability" I have checked "Steam Runtime". It seems I am still missing some libraries though. If I try to run xenia_canary.exe with ge-proton9-21 I get the following errors:

002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (126).
0024:err:module:import_dll Library libvkd3d-1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wined3d.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library libvkd3d-shader-1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wined3d.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library wined3d.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dxgi.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library dxgi.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\7738baa2\\xenia_canary.exe") not found
0024:err:module:loader_init Importing dlls for L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\7738baa2\\xenia_canary.exe" failed, status c0000135

If I instead use wine-ge-proton8-26, I instead get these:

002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (126).
008c:err:hid:udev_bus_init UDEV monitor creation failed
0140:err:seh:check_noexcept noexcept function propagating exception

Sometimes the program will launch for a moment before crashing. The 022c:err:wineboot: line will also show up when changing runner, not just when trying to launch the .exe.

Bottom line is, I have no clue where to go from here. This is the first time I am doing anything with Wine/Proton outside of Steam or Lutris.

Is there some obvious thing I am doing wrong here?