u/Electrical-Package67

When launching via ersc_launcher.exe, a terminal window flashes for about 2 seconds and closes. The game never opens. Running the launcher manually via Wine terminal reveals it shows "Press any key to continue" but since it's a GUI-less console window there's no way to interact with it through Lutris.

Running eldenring.exe directly works and gets further but still exits without showing the game.

What I've tried:

• Wiped and rebuilt the Wine prefix
• Tried multiple Proton versions (GE-Proton10-34, proton-cachyos-11.0)
• Created steam_appid.txt with 1245620
• Disabled OnlineFix64.dll (this fixed a Wine Mono crash that was happening)
• Swapped steam_api64.dll back to original

Current state: With OnlineFix disabled, no Mono crash, launcher runs briefly but exits. Friend with same setup on Windows works fine.

Any ideas? Please help!!!

1. Name of game: Elden Ring 

2. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U (16) @ 4.77 GHz

3. GPU: AMD Radeon 680M [Integrated]

4. Proton Version: proton-cachyos-11.0-20260429-slr-x86_64_v3, GE-Proton10-34

5. Game Launcher: Lutris

6. Release Info: (v1.16.1) preinstalled from SteamRIP and generic steam fix from online-fix with newest version of seamless coop from nexus mods.

7. OS: CachyOS