Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Apex Legends
• Steam AppID of the game: 1172470

System Information

• GPU: GTX 2060
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia Driver: 510.54 | LLVM: 13.0.1
• Kernel version: 5.15.25-1-Manjaro
• Link to full system information report as Gist: n/a
• Proton version: Experimental (Mar 11) & Proton7.0-1

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-1172470.log

Symptoms

EAC closes immediately after the splash screen shows. The game does not open and the process closes.

Reproduction

Without compatibility tools specified OR with Proton7.0-1 OR with Proton Experimental (Mar 11, 2022):

• (without an existing compat folder)
• Press play
• 8/8 install steps complete
• Vulkan shaders build
• EAC splash screen for Apex Legends opens
• EAC closes immediately

More info:

• Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime has been uninstalled/reinstalled in .local/share/Steam
• Steam Linux Runtime - Soldier has been uninstalled/reinstalled .local/share/Steam
• The game is installed on a separate NTFS drive with the compat data for 1172470/ symlinked to my .local/share/Steam similar to other games I have installed in the NTFS drive as encouraged in the Proton help article. Can confirm other games work fine with this symlink structure.