Ace of Spades (224540) - reading access violation

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues:
• Steam AppID of the game:

System Information

• GPU: GTX 1080
• Driver/LLVM version: 396.54
• Kernel version: 4.18.5
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 3.7-6

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Starting MSAA Compatibility test
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Finished MSAA Compatibility test
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Loading images
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Setting texture quality
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Indexing images
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Starting loading screen...
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "<string>", line 49, in <module>
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\dc8eb0b1d2cf198a\Main\client\standalone\pyinstaller\PyInstaller\loader\pyi_importers.py", line 247, in load_module
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\dc8eb0b1d2cf198a\Main\client\standalone\build\pyi.win32\run_obfuscated\out00-PYZ.pyz\aoslib.run", line 300, in <module>
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\dc8eb0b1d2cf198a\Main\client\standalone\build\pyi.win32\run_obfuscated\out00-PYZ.pyz\aoslib.loadingscreen", line 33, in init
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\dc8eb0b1d2cf198a\Main\client\standalone\build\pyi.win32\run_obfuscated\out00-PYZ.pyz\aoslib.loadingscreen", line 88, in update_progress
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-]   File "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\dc8eb0b1d2cf198a\Main\client\standalone\build\pyi.win32\run_obfuscated\out00-PYZ.pyz\pyglet.window.win32", line 612, in dispatch_events
2018-09-08 13:35:30+0300 [-] WindowsError: exception: access violation reading 0x00000000

steam-224540.log

Reproduction

1. Install the game
2. Launch it
3. Check game's log

Start with steam-224540.log and the traceback in the issue, then reproduce the launch sequence under Proton 3.7-6 using the listed system information. Done means identifying a project-side compatibility cause and confirming that Ace of Spades launches without the reported access violation.