Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Need for Speed Unbound
• Steam AppID of the game: 1846380

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
• Video driver version: 24.0.3-2
• Kernel version: 6.8.2
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
  
• Proton version: Experimental as of 2024-03-28, but every version crashes the same.

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  (( I haven't seen this specific game work, neither do I have seen the EA Launcher work, but Origin worked way back, so it did run some time ago. ))
• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Grepping for errors reveals that some Qt5Pdf.dll is missing, I don't quite understand why the copy protection needs to do PDF stuff at this stage of starting up though...

[maximilian@shibuya ~]$ cat steam-1846380.log |grep :err: | grep 'dll'
5753.620:0128:012c:err:module:import_dll Library Qt5Pdf.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\EA Desktop\\EA Desktop\\imageformats\\qpdf.dll") not found
5760.637:01ec:0204:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ieframe.dll"
5761.300:0408:040c:err:module:import_dll Library Qt5Pdf.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\EA Desktop\\EA Desktop\\imageformats\\qpdf.dll") not found
5781.034:0408:040c:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ieframe.dll"
5784.888:03fc:03f0:err:module:import_dll Library Qt5Pdf.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\EA Desktop\\EA Desktop\\imageformats\\qpdf.dll") not found
5785.376:0314:070c:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ieframe.dll"
5786.185:053c:0534:err:module:import_dll Library Qt5Pdf.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Electronic Arts\\EA Desktop\\EA Desktop\\imageformats\\qpdf.dll") not found
5788.101:053c:0534:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111 for dll L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ieframe.dll"

Kindly see attached log file for more information.
steam-1846380.tar.gz

Symptoms

The game wont start at all, as the copy protection EA Launcher crashes with an ominous GUI error. Supposedly background services crashed.

Reproduction

• Download NFS Unbound (or any game with EA Launcher copy protection for that matter)
• Start the game first time
• Embrace the crash! :-(