Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Helldivers 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 553850

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
• Video driver version: NVIDIA-SMI 610.57.04
• Kernel version: 7.1.8-1-cachyos (64-bit)
• Proton version: Loads past the Anti Cheat menu with Proton 10.0-4. Will not load at all with any other version. Minor success with Proton Experimental combined with changing the version from bleeding edge to bleeding edge 10.

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.

• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-553850.log

Symptoms

The game worked perfectly fine prior to an update back in June. Since then, I've tried every suggested fix I could find. Uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times, verified files, the works.

I open up Steam, select Helldivers 2, hit Play, and it does not boot up past the Vulkan Shaders loading (which I skip). The Proton Experimental fix doesn't work (even with selecting the recommended version of bleeding edge). The Proton Hotfix doesn't work nor does Proton 11. I went to ProtonDB and tried different combinations of Proton versions with game launch commands and no success either. I installed Proton Plus and attempted to launch with both Proton-CachyOS Latest and GE-Proton11-3 with no success there either.

I did note two things. With Proton 10.0-4, the game gets past the Anit-Cheat launcher, loads to a black screen with white edges on the left side of the screen, stays there for a few seconds, then crashes back to desktop where the Sony crash report pop-up is waiting. I decided to try Proton Experimental again but this time with the bleeding-edge-10 selected as well. The line of reasoning I used was simply if the game launches past the Anti-Cheat with Proton 10.0-4, then perhaps selecting bleeding-edge-10 with Proton Experimental will work. Tried it, same thing except this time there were no white edges on the black screen. For a few moments I thought it worked but it returned to desktop with the Sony crash window waiting for me again.

I've been at this since the update in June broke the game for me. It's frustrating that the Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental fixes seem to work for a majority of folks but not for me. I was hoping that this most recent update would fix the issue on its own but no luck there. I would rather avoid having to reinstall the entire distro or returning to Windows so I'm hoping someone here with more experience and know-how can help me find the problem so I can just kill some bugs and robots.

Reproduction

Not sure how to replicate this since the fixes work for majority of folks along with other Proton versions.