Call of Duty: WWII (476600)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Call of Duty: WWII
• Steam AppID of the game: 476600

System Information

• GPU: GTX 980 4GB
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.56
• Kernel version: 4.18.0-16-generic #17-Ubuntu
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.2-2

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-476600.log

Symptoms

Game is mentioned as working since DXVK 0.92 and supposedly works with some sound issues according to DXVK issue-tracker but under proton the game launches and instantly closes.
Some nvapi issues but I tried the mentioned fix of creating dxvk.conf in the exe's directory to disable nvapi and no difference is seen.
Ref: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/832

Reproduction

Run game, game crashes.

Start by reproducing the launch crash with Call of Duty: WWII under Proton 4.2-2 and reviewing steam-476600.log. Compare the reported nvapi behavior with the linked DXVK issue; done means identifying the cause and verifying that the game no longer closes immediately.