Anno 2205 (375910)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Anno 2205
• Steam AppID of the game: 375910

System Information

• GPU: GTX 960M
• Driver/LLVM version: 410.66
• Kernel version: 4.19
• Link to full system information report: sys_info
• Proton version: 3.16

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

Python errors crash the game.

The first error encountered indicate bad encoding in some python file. This problem can be fixed by adding PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 to the launch options in Steam, as mentioned here.

However, when this problem is solved, another Python error appear in the game log:

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
5022.110:009b:009c:warn:debugstr:OutputDebugStringA "Fatal Python error: "

Reproduction

Just start the game. Uplay log in, search for updates/sync to cloud. A black screen appear and crashes after some seconds.

Start by reproducing the crash after Uplay login and update/sync, then inspect the linked game log and system information report alongside the Proton 3.16 launch environment. Done means identifying and resolving the Python standard-stream error so Anno 2205 starts without crashing.