Titanfall 2 (1237970)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Titanfall 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 1237970

System Information

• GPU: AMD RX 580 8GB
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.3.3, LLVM 11.1.0
• Kernel version: 5.11.9
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/serebit/fd50035232b81e3547158553fa535fde
• Proton version: 6.3-1

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

• The Steam overlay is unavailable for some users, whether using a native runtime or the official Steam runtime. This appears to be the case for most Origin games. No known fix.
• Installing the game on a NTFS drive can render the game unlaunchable, with odd behavior from Origin as well. This can be fixed by installing the game on an EXT4 drive or similar.
• Using Proton 5.13 can cause crashes after about 45 minutes. This can be fixed by disabling esync via the PROTON_USE_ESYNC=1 env var.
• Running the game in fullscreen can cause the game to be unable to reacquire fullscreen after alt-tabbing. This can be resolved by running the game in windowed borderless, if available.
• Windowed borderless (which must be enabled via config or Origin launch options) sometimes fails to work, leaving a border on the window. No known fix.
• "File corruption detected" error on launching the game. Toggling the language back and forth repeatedly can temporarily allow the game to run. No known fix.

Additional Comments

I am so happy that I can even make this issue. Titanfall 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and to see it on Steam and running near flawlessly through Proton is a dream come true.

Start by reproducing the listed launch, overlay, filesystem, fullscreen, and file-corruption symptoms with Proton 6.3-1 and the reported system details. A useful contribution would need to narrow the report to one reproducible failure and establish a validated resolution; no source file or test is named here.