OK then you can NOT check that. I would be tempted to say the update didn’t break your game and that it is another EAC/Proton (I assume, right?) issue. For example check the Vermintide 2 Steam forum to see people who have EAC working then just restarting the game makes it not work, so this is not unthinkable.
Best bet is to go the the Steam forum of the game or whatever community forum it has, or PRotonDB, or Github issues for Proton.
That would be feasible, if it wasn’t for the fact I tried several proton versions including older ones, rebooted the game multiple times and reinstalled EAC multiple times.
In other words, I am relatively certain nothing regarding Proton is the issue
No, EAC has its own update system. Also Steam’s EAC Runtime (that you may or may not need, I don’t know) is independent of the game. It can also be a network issue with EAC’s servers. I’m not sure how to troubleshoot your issue.
//EDIT: something completely stupid to try, to check if the issue comes from an updated system package, is to find an outdated Manjaro mirror server, updating from it with the downgrade option, to return back to previous Stable branch state, but as said this is stupid and may break the system. You can do a Timeshift backup beforehand or whatever system backup solution you use if you want to be stoopid and try.
thanks for you effort anyways, I’ll try to see if I can figure out what is causing this. Although unlikely I will find anything, I will post it here if I do happen to
for the sake of accuracy I will be trying to play a different game with EAC, apex legends, but due to RL restrictions I wont be able to actually play it and report findings until later today
Something you could try, is to delete the Proton prefix folder /home/YourName/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1029690/ (or rename it for safe keeping, in case there is some savegame or whatever that will not be imported back from Steam Cloud, so you still have it somewhere), select Proton Experimental or Proton 7 (no other one, they can’t work with EAC), make sure you have EAC Runtime from Steam Tools in your Library, and verify file for the EAC Runtime from Steam, then for the game. At this point start the game and see if it unbreaks.
PS: also note that EAC in a game is not the same EAC in other game, they have different implementations, different versions, so it may not be a reliable test if you want to try many other games.
now the game just doesn’t want to boot at all with EAC active… joy
also Apex was just fine, so that was inconclusive
well, that didn’t work. Followed the steps to the letter, but nada. thank you for your efforts though, I hope that this issue gets solved at some point behind the scenes, because at this point I legitimately don’t know what could possibly fix this
the game works without EAC, it just lacks all multiplayer components (including friend to friend coop games… because THAT is a good idea, lets lock friendly coop games behind an anticheat)
because I have a bit of a massive grudge against flatpak and other such services, due to their tendency to not properly clear up files in the slightest upon the removal of installed software. I mean I could try, but it is definitely not my favorite thing. Plus, the setup that now failed was working for months upon months before failing following an update from an unknown source (aka the stable manjaro update or the potential EAC update, although in all likelyhood its an EAC update, seeing as Apex legends was working fine, which too uses EAC, and I dont expect core implementations regarding hash catalogues to differ all that much)
If you didn’t update anything on the system, it is probably what I guessed, something broke, outside of Manjaro, and is now fixed. That could be Proton, Steam EAC Runtime, the game EAC, a network issue… or whatever out of Manjaro’s control.