Solar 2 (97000)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues:
• Steam AppID of the game:

System Information

• GPU: GTX 680
• Driver/LLVM version: 435.21
• Kernel version: 5.2.13-arch1-1-ARCH
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.11-3

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-97000.log

Symptoms

Crash/freeze during loading screen after starting the game

Reproduction

1. Open Solar 2 properties, enable proton compatibility (there's a native linux version we don't want to use, more about that later).
2. Start the game, select 'close' on the .net installer failure ('newer version installed', continue button is greyed out).
3. press "start' or 'enter' when requested to start the game.
4. the game enters a loading screen and freezes

Additional info:

There's a native version of this game, using monogame. However, its resolution options is maxed to my smallest screen, and even then acts very buggy. Hence my attempt at running this game using steam proton.

Start by reproducing the loading-screen freeze with Proton 4.11-3 using the listed steps, then inspect steam-97000.log and the linked system information report. Compare behavior with the native version and use the Proton compatibility-report context to narrow the cause. Done means Solar 2 reaches gameplay under Proton without freezing.