This does not appear to affect older popcap titles like Bejeweled (2), Zuma, Peggle, Insaniquarium, Big Money, Astropop, and others I missed. In fact I think those are candidates for a whitelist.
Also Bejeweled 3 runs fine.
I've made a list of working games in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/331#issuecomment-415618214
Figured that'd be more appropriate.
You might be able to get them working by adding -changedir to the launch options.
Works for Plants Vs Zombies, at least.
derram option to add -changedir to the steam launch parameter works with peggle nights. Thats probably the way to fix this error in all these popcam games.
Since Proton 5.0-8, at least Plants vs Zombies works out of the box.
Yes, cmdlineappend:-changedir now used with Proton 5.0-9 and 3540, 3560, 3580, 3590, 3620 as of this writing. Since this specific issue is resolved, let's track these games separately from now on, one game per issue report like other unofficially supported game titles.
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When launching several PopCap games using Proton, games which otherwise works perfectly in regular Wine, the following error pops up:
This applies to (from my testing):
I suspect most modern Popcap titles will be affected.