18+ hours into getting Monster Hunter games to work

so my issue started out innocently enough
monster hunter rise and world were working perfectly but MH wilds was crashing with “unsupported graphics card” error
i cant remember what i did to fix it but know that google ai helped me get it working (at least once)
my graphics card is rtx 3060 and other demanding games run perfectly fine so there is no issue with flatpak reaching my gpu or mismatched gpu drivers
im using G07 and 595.84 drivers

now here is where the real issues started
i was content with Wilds running but its a whopping ~120 gb on my main drive and i had a whole unused secondary drive at my disposal
after finally getting flatpak steam to recognize the second drive and moving the files i tried to play but i got a persistent D3D12 createdevice failed error and no amount of deleting caches, different prefixes, or integrity checks would make it run
now this is when i found out that my second drive was xfs and it refused to collaborate with flatpak…
didnt seem like a huge problem so i figured i would format the drive to a different filesystem
long story short, ai absolutely ■■■■■■ me and my boot drive got corrupted so at the end of the day i made a fresh install of opensuse leap 16 and i copied over my home directory, making sure to wipe everything to do with steam
now i finally had a mounted ext4 drive and my games (MH rise and wilds) worked flawlessly once but after i keep getting D3D12createdevice error on BOTH games
ive done a LOT more prefixes and reinstalls and deleting caches and installing tools etc but nothing works more than once
also Wilds flips between D3D12 error and “unsupported graphics card” error with different configs

it started working again while i was typing this
monster hunter rise used launch parameter:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 VK3D_SHADER_MODEL=6_5 %command%
and was using proton hotfix

monster hunter wilds used launch parameter:
PROT_WINE_VERSION=“windows11” %command%
and was using GE-proton11-3

i went to sleep finally and shut off my pc
when i tried to run them again today MH rise gives d3d12 error again and MH wilds gives unsupported graphics card error
another thing i did yesterday was delete all versions of proton and reinstall them before it started working

what could be going on here ?
to be clear, MH world and other games like elden ring and palworld have been working 100% fine…