I double checked one of the older systems and it was actually ge-Proton 10-32 not regular Proton 7. I did have it working with regular Proton on the other old system though.
That is correct although I can work around it by enabling windows XP compatibility mode. Interestingly I have been able to get it running and playable on two older computers using older versions of Proton (7,8) although ...
@BetaNix Thank you for the report! Unfortunately this crashing is a game bug, and happens on Windows as well. I just checked myself and the errors are the same at the same exact point when using the latest Proton version...
Proton 7 will reliably reach the main menu but crash when starting a new game and selecting who to help. It will also crash before that if the 'enter' key is pressed after typing your name at first start instead of click...