Hitman 2 (863550)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Hitman 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 863550

System Information

• GPU: GTX 1050
• Driver/LLVM version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 415.23
• Kernel version: 4.15.0-42-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/sergio91pt/306e805f428092cca14e8fbd0c5f2a1e
• Proton version: 3.16-6 Beta (also happens in 3.7-8 and 3.16-4)

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-863550.log

Symptoms

The launcher works but the game crashes a couple seconds after the game launches in fullscreen. The screen is always black when it crashes.

Reproduction

Always reproducible.

Solution

The problem seems to be caused by this bug, related to Nvidia prime/optimus and gdm3 on Ubuntu.

The solution is to run sudo vulkaninfo. It fails without sudo and the command needs to be run again after rebooting.

Review the attached steam-863550.log and the linked Launchpad bug first, then reproduce the fullscreen crash using the listed Ubuntu, NVIDIA, and Proton versions. Done means confirming the cause and documenting a reliable compatibility result for Hitman 2.