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The Survivalists

protonopen appid 897450Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#5460 · opened 2021-12-31 by Mershl · updated 2025-08-27 · 15 comments · github · game page · search this game
MMershl 2021-12-31 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Survivalists
  • Steam AppID of the game: 897450

System Information

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-897450.log

Symptoms

The player character is not rendered ingame, nor in the character screen.

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Based on the existing protondb reports this may be an AMD/mesa issue.

Reproduction

Start a new game, issue is immediatly present.

Hhakzsam 2021-12-31 github

Can't reproduce with same GPU, mesa 21.3.1 and Proton-6.3-8. Tried the game and the demo.

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MMershl 2021-12-31 github

Flatpak Steam (mesa 21.3.1 on 21.3.2 host)

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Fedora 35 rpm Steam (mesa 21.3.2)

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@hakzsam if it's not too much hassle. Can you give flatpak steam a short test run to confirm it being flatpak-specific?

Hhakzsam 2022-04-27 github

@Mershl Are you still able to reproduce with latest Mesa?

MMershl 2022-04-27 github

Hi @hakzsam,

The issue is still reproducible on a clean installation of Fedora Silverblue 36 (same hardware).
Cleaned the prefix (compatdata) beforehand, reset all graphic settings, just to make sure.

Flatpak Steam (mesa 21.3.8 on 22.0.1 host)

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The issue is still not reproducible on rpm Steam.

Hhakzsam 2022-04-27 github

This is unlikely a RADV issue then?

MMershl 2022-04-27 github

As it is not reproducible on rpm Steam with the last 4 mesa releases - I don't think so. I think this is a Flatpak Steam issue with a flatpak provided library or feature going wrong.

PS.: @hakzsam if you have a flatpak-capable system available, can you please try to reproduce it on your machine, just to be sure.

Hhakzsam 2022-04-27 github

Sorry, I don't.

SShished 2023-03-08 github

Is this still an issue, I cannot reproduce it?

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MMershl 2023-03-08 github

I can still reproduce the issue on two Fedora 37 machines.

@Shished Can you tell us a bit more about your system? Did you use the demo or full version of the game?

Flatpak 1.14.1
Latest 22.08 runtime
Proton 7.0-6
Full version of the game
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SShished 2023-03-08 github

Host: Arch Linux
Flatpak 1.15.3
Latest 22.08 runtime
Proton 7.0-6
Demo version of the game

MMershl 2023-03-08 github

I've updated Flatpak to 1.15.3 without success regarding this issue. Though I noticed some GStreamer warnings in the Proton log of this game. @Shished Can you please post the output of flatpak list --runtime? Tested with every Proton or Proton derivate and while the GStreamer warning are gone the issue is not. As is does not seem to affect Arch Host Flatpak this might really be a Flatpak issue itself.

Gguss77 2024-06-23 github

I've installed Steam from Flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04, and it plays the survivalist fine with Proton Experimental (I actually didn't try other versions). The system installed Steam wouldn't even launch The Survivalists regardless of what runtime I used.

Rrastla 2025-08-24 github

Also reproducible on my system (AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X), Nobara 42 KDE Wayland, Mesa 25.3.0-devel

However, it works fine in my Linux Mint 22.1 installation (Cinnamon, X11) on the same hardware. Even same game files

Ssimifor 2025-08-26 github

@rastla do you mean the character being invisible? can you upload a proton log?

Rrastla 2025-08-27 github

@simifor yes, the invisible character. here is the log:

steam-897450.log

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