Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: War Thunder
• Steam AppID of the game: 236390

System Information

• GPU: GTX 1060 6G
• Driver/LLVM version: 525.78.01 / X11
• Kernel version: 6.0.18-301.fsync.fc37.x86_64
• OS: Nobara 37
• Link to full system information report as Gist: lshw
• Proton version: GE-Proton 7-43, Experimental

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.

Proton logs

Symptoms

Game will start and is online, but I'm unable to get EAC working under proton so game gets into limited state.
Native "works", but there are game breaking bugs.
Mainly mouse capture doesn't work, this issue is not present when using Proton.

Reproduction

Change compatibility tool to Proton of your choice, install the game completely, double check that EAC is enabled in the launcher.
Launch the game, try to play any historic match and the game will ask you to restart the game to enable EAC.

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: War thunder
• Steam AppID of the game:236390

System Information

• GPU: Gtx 1660 super
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 535.54.03
• Kernel version: 6.4.0
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version:Proton-ge 8.6

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.

Proton log

Symptoms

The game crashes very frequently when trying to do anything.

Reproduction

Try and launch the game with proton-ge-8.6.

System Information

• GPU: XFX AMD Radeon RX 5700
• Kernel version: < 6.7.7-1-default
• OS: < cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20240304

I confirm:

• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Warthunder crashing/bugs
• Steam AppID of the game: 236390

System Information

• GPU: Gtx 1660 super
• Video driver version: nvidia 550.54.14
• Kernel version: linux-tkg-6.7.9
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: GE-Proton0-1-rtsp1

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.

I've encountered three bugs.

1. When I try and click use mouse1 on any menu item it doesn't work unless I use mouse2 to select it.

2. Effects sometimes are visible through buildings, and with 9.1 I've noticed the effects are simply not how they're supposed to be.
   
   
   Here's another photo showing flares visible through aircraft despite being dropped behind it. Also not captured with screenshot is flares almost instantly becoming invisible
   

3. At the end of a match when the game tries to load the post battle screen it freezes, and causes a crash.

Reproduction

There's nothing super specific to reproducing these bugs. Just click around on menu, and play a match then leave it. You should then notice your game freezing/crashing. One key thing to note ist this is all tested using ultra low quality/old video card support. I've found it's more stable/less visual bugs.

@JustCauseWhyNot hi there and thank you for the report.
I believe that number 2 on your list should now be fully solved on the new Proton Experimental build.

Number 1, and 2 both appear to be working correctly now. Number 3 still happens consistently for me. If number 3 got fixed, and gaijin turned on eac for grb I could play it through proton exclusively. Thank you guys for your contributions.

Currently I can't play any proton games including wt. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7705#issuecomment-2106092222

I can run it now. But I can't use dlss. I'm able to use dlss/dlaa in squad with no launch options, and proton-ge-9.5. But warthunder won't allow me to change the dlss setting.

Just want to add to this issue tracker for War Thunder that their VR support crashes very frequently under Proton.
SteamVR 2.16.6 is totally unusable with it right now, but SteamVR 2.12 [previous] branch hooks in via Monado when used that way, though ends up crashing pretty often or hanging on a black screen.

EDIT: Actually, 2.16 can hook in but does crash/freeze the same way 2.12 does via Monado. 2.16 tended to leave the game completely unusable even on Desktop mode when trying Steam VRLink on Linux so testing has been a nightmare.