er-patcher: Whitescreen Crash issue when using the er-patcher

Hey there,

I have found this github repository on protondb.com and tried it. Unfortunately, I get the whitescreen crash, when I use this patch and I don’t know why.

My command looks like this: ./er-patcher -uavc -- %command% I’ve tried Proton-7.3-GE-1 and GE-Proton 7-9 and 7-8 If I start the game without this patcher, it works in Proton-7.3-GE-1. It still doesn’t really work on the other ones but there I don’t get the white screen either.

I have a Radeon 6900 XT and a AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor.

Do you have any idea what the issue might be?

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  • State: closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments: 31 (18 by maintainers)

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Great! Thats what I wanted to hear 😃 Also thanks again for testing! Can @TheLux83 try and see if it fixes the issue? If yes I’ll merge the changes (MR #16) and we can close this issue.

I’m happy to report that (settings I’m interested in) ./er-patcher -vcs -- %command%

works as expected, so no vignette, no chromatic abberation, no intros, and no whitescreen crash of course 😉

edit: ./er-patcher --all --rate 30 --fix-camera -- %command% also works without issues, locks framerate as expected to 30.

./er-patcher --all --rate 90 --fix-camera -- %command% also works without issues, unlocks framerate as expected to 90.

You could check if it has to do something with launching the executable from a subfolder.

  1. Open er-patcher in a text editor and change the last two lines to
    # os.remove(patched_exe_dir / exe_name)
    # os.rmdir(patched_exe_dir)
  1. Set the launch options you want to run the game with (assuming eerything works) and start it from steam once (we expect it to crash here)
  2. rename start_protected_game.exe to start_protected_game.exe.bak
  3. rename ./er-patcher-tmp/eldenring.exe to start_protected_game.exe and move it to the main game directory
  4. remove all Elden Ring launch options
  5. Try starting the game from steam with a version of proton that would normally launch the game fine