Grzesiek11
Published
A black launcher window appears for a split second, then crashes
Tried:
- Proton GE
- Proton 7.0-6
- Proton Experimental
- Running the game from an NTFS partition
- Unsetting LANG/setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- The NixOS launch options (just to see if anything happens)
A few times during tinkering the launcher didn't crash (not sure what caused that), in those cases it says "Preparing game..." and loads infinitely (waited about 15 minutes).
I also tried running the game on two other PCs with similar software setups, one with Intel iGPU and one with AMD GPU. They don't work in the same way.
Doesn't work, as in previous report
As in previous report
In terms of running the game through Steam, nothing changed. However, I was able to find a certain workaround, which I am sadly not able to share - if I did, EA would send a hitman after me, because it involves doing very immoral things like: actually owning the game without useless launchers, DRM and kernel level anticheats (I mean, the last one doesn't apply to this game, but in general). I will however say that after attempting said workaround the game works perfectly in regular Wine 9.19 without additional tweaks (so it would probably work in regular Proton as well). It works so well in fact, that I think I will apply this workaround to any other EA game I might want to play in the future.
Let me just end this report with this completely unrelated quote from the owner of a certain game distribution platform related to ProtonDB.
Piracy is almost always a service problem [...].
Gabe Newell, 2011
What you do with this information is up to you.
Works great
The only bug that is likely Linux-only is the "User Manual" option in the main menu not opening the user manual. You can open it from the Steam library though.
