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Assassin's Creed Shadows crashes before main menu on Fedora 42 with AMD GPU

protonclosed appid 3159330
ValveSoftware/Proton#9049 · opened 2025-09-16 by TheVodouch · updated 2025-09-16 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game
TTheVodouch 2025-09-16 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Assassin's Creed Shadows
  • Steam AppID of the game: 3159330

System Information

  • GPU: AMD RX 9070 XT
  • Video driver version: Mesa 25.1.7
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64
  • Link to full system information report as Gist: Gist
  • Proton version: Experimental/9.0-4/10.0-2/GE-Proton10-15

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-3159330.log

Symptoms

Game launches, before accessing the main menu the game warns me about having the game installed on a HDD (I do not it's on a samsung NVMe SSD.) After clicking OK the game crashes. You can also see the main menu just for a split second before the crash.

Reproduction

Start game
Wait for intro to finish
CRASH

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-09-16 github

Hello @TheVodouch, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8543#issuecomment-3300442211.

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