R.U.S.E (21970)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: R.U.S.E
• Steam AppID of the game: 21970

System Information

• GPU: GTX 1060 (6gb)
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 396.54
• Kernel version: Kernel version: 4.15.0-34
• My System Info
• 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.

steam-21970.log

Symptoms

When launching this game, the R.U.S.E splash will appear and you get an error message about wine crashing. It will stay there until you force close it. After looking through the games AppDB, it turns out you need a number of things including dotnet2.0 and wmp10, but Proton doesn't yet support 32-bit prefixes (#449). I had attempted a workaround for that, which attempts to create a 32-bit prefix for Proton 3.7 but unfortunately the installation of dotnet etc all failed with a number of other errors.

It should also be noted that this game is no longer available for purchase on the Steam store due to licensing issues, but a large number of people own the game.

Start with steam-21970.log and the referenced compatibility issue #449; no source file or test is named. Reproduce the launch failure with Proton 3.7-6 if possible, then confirm completion when R.U.S.E. launches without the reported crash and the dotnet2.0 and wmp10 compatibility requirements are addressed.