Compatibility Report

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

System Information

• GPU: RX 7700 XT
• Video driver version: Mesa
• Kernel version: Fedora 43, kernel 7.1.8
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: Proton 11.0-2 / Experemental

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [ ] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-553850.log.zip

Symptoms

Helldivers 2 (553850) crashes since the Oct 20 2026 update (build 19374)

Crash: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading 0x58 at helldivers2.exe+0x9f60ed, thread "D3D12TaskDispatcherThread". Null pointer: both the object and its fallback global (helldivers2.exe+0x1a2c998) are null. Identical in 6/6 dumps.

Tried, still crashes: GE-Proton10-34, Proton Experimental 11.0-100, FSR4 on/off, upscaling none, AMD Anti-Lag off, cleared Steam shader cache, deleted the game's pipeline_library.cache.

The game worked perfectly on max settings before the update.

Reproduction

The crashes happen randomly, they could happen on game launch, a minute after the game launch inside the lobby or a half an hour inside the mission. Lowering particle effect quality kind of helped to increase the time between crashes when inside a mission, but they still happen often, sometimes right away after joining.