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Surviving Mars: Pioneer

protonopen appid 3558730Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#8684 · opened 2025-05-11 by KvaGram · updated 2025-05-18 · 3 comments · github · game page · search this game
KKvaGram 2025-05-11 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Surviving Mars: Pioneer
  • Steam AppID of the game: 3558730

System Information

  • GPU: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
  • Video driver version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.247.01
  • Kernel version: 6.11.0-25-generic
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: 9.0-4

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.

Symptoms

Game launch, then freezes. Most often, I get past loading logos. Sometimes past the loading screen.
Furthest I have gotten so far, is to the main menu, before the game, again, freeze and have to be manually terminated.

Reproduction

Launch Surviving Mars Pioneer.

It's early days and it's an early access game, so I don't expect a fix on the spot.
But it was on sale, so I decided to get it early. My hope is that it somehow works in a few months. So far it's borked.
But because it's a recently release early access, I don't want to add a report to protondb just yet. Hence why I instead start this thread.

KKvaGram 2025-05-11 github

Uh hey. This time the game managed to crash all on its own, less than a minute after freezing. I guess that's progress, of sorts?
Got a log of my latest attempt to run the game.
steam-3558730.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-11 github

Hello @KvaGram, your Proton log has an access violation (c0000005) in /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.535.247.0 that hints towards a video driver issue. Can you test how the game behaves with a newer video driver release series?

KKvaGram 2025-05-18 github

Sorry for the delay. I had to find time where any potential driver issues wouldn't be too inconvenient. Thankfully changing the GPU driver was painless this time. I have had issues before. Hence why I ran on a slightly older driver.
So, running with an updated driver, and all software updated, I got the same issue. Game freeze at first logo. First second of running. Here is the new log.
steam-3558730.log

Nothing extracted yet.