Initially, Star Wars: The Old Republic (AppID: 1286830) wouldn’t launch on Linux Mint 22.1—stuck at “Launching” with no logs. Forced output revealed early Proton failures. The launcher later errored out, and Proton 7.0-6 got us to the game client, only to crash before character selection with BugSplat. Steam restarts added chaos. A fresh prefix and Proton Experimental, paired with PROTON_LOG=1 gamemoderun %command%, finally nailed it—character creation loaded, game stable. Credit to Grok 3 from xAI for the clutch assist!