Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Steam AppID of the game: 1182900

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT (radeonsi, navi21)

• Video driver version: Mesa 25.1.5 (Pop!_OS 22.04)

• Kernel version: 6.12.10-76061203-generic

• Link to full system information report attached as steam_system_info.txt steam_system_info.txt

• Proton version: Proton 9.0.4, Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, GE-Proton10-8

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-1182900.log

Symptoms

The game fails immediately on launch with the following Wine/Proton assertion error:
winevulkan/loader_thunks.c
Expression: "status && vkCreateComputePipelines"

The crash happens before the game reaches the main menu.

When forcing WineD3D with
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
…the game behaves differently (black screen / crash) but avoids the Vulkan assertion. This suggests the issue is in the DX12 → Vulkan path (VKD3D-Proton + Mesa).

Other Unreal Engine 5 games on this system run without issue.

Reproduction

Install A Plague Tale: Requiem

Launch with Proton Experimental (or other tested Proton versions)

Observe immediate crash with the vkCreateComputePipelines assertion

Proton log: attached as steam-1182900.log

Steam system information: attached as steam_system_info.txt