Far Cry 3, 3:blood dragon, 4 potentially all Ubisoft Connect games don't start up.

protonclosed

ValveSoftware/Proton#8582 · opened 2025-04-02 by ghost · updated 2025-04-15 · 1 comments · github

?ghost 2025-04-02 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Far Cry 3, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Far Cry 4, all ubisoft connect games.
Steam AppID of the game: 220240

System Information

GPU: RX 7800 xt
Video driver version: Mesa 25.0.2
Kernel version: 6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/esperanza-esperanza/fb1ce2a469eaa201f922ea5c235a91bc
Proton version: Experimental, Hotfix, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3. I tried all of the available by default for Far Cry 4 and only 9.0 for Far Cry 3.

I confirm:

[ I have for another Ubisoft Connect game ] 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-220240.log
steam-233270.log

Symptoms

The games don't start nor does the ubisoft launcher.

Reproduction

Install Far Cry 3, 3:Blood Dragon, 4.
Disable/Enable FSYNC/ESYNC, DXVK_ASYNC.
Doesn't start with nor without options.

RRene-Levesque 2025-04-11 github

I second this. Far Cry 4 used to work perfectly fine until Ubisoft updated the Ubisoft Connect launcher. In my case, Connect launches, and inside Connect it says that the game is "running...", however the game never actually launches.

Launch options

DXVK_ASYNCx1 2025-04