Far Cry 4 (298110)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Far Cry 4
• Steam AppID of the game: 298110

System Information

• GPU: PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil 8GB
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.0.0-devel (git-e2ae5f2f0a), LLVM 8.0.0
• Kernel version: 4.20.0-rc7-mainline
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Holzhaus/837a0fb4e7ee0783effc43968a31e73f
• Proton version: 3.16.6

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

A Uplay window with the title "Looking for updates" appears, accompanied by an error message box that tells us that Uplay has detected an unrecoverable error and must shut down.

Log file: steam-298110.log

Uplay crash dump (GZipped):
Uplay.exe_4.8.1.3617_2018-12-26_18-53-02.dmp.gz

Reproduction

Install Far Cry 4 and click the "Play" button.

Start with the linked steam-298110.log and Uplay crash dump, then reproduce by installing Far Cry 4 and clicking Play with Proton 3.16.6. Investigate the Uplay update window and unrecoverable-error failure using the provided system information. Done means the game progresses past this Uplay crash.