Hello @ipr, it looks like this game would benefit from support for d3dx9 maturing.
Just a bit of an update with Proton 8.0-4 and Experimental.
You can get into menu now and they work, but loading into time attack hangs on a "please wait" message indefinitely. (Edit: meant "time attack", not "instant race" as I said before. "time attack" might be trying to access leaderboard from a server?)"
More interesting perhaps that trying to open Steam overlay (shift+tab) hangs the game.
In this case log has message:
179098.177:0130:0574:err:seh:handle_syscall_fault Syscall stack overrun.
backtrace: --- Exception 0xc0000005 at 0x7bc5f5cd:.
Log from trying to open overlay.
steam-240600.log.gz
Newer games in the series usually work fine so this is mainly of interest for completeness of support perhaps.
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Symptoms
Black screen while music is playing. This might be getting to menu (due to sound playing) but nothing on screen.
Reproduction
steam-240600.log.gz