Dead Space 3 (1238060)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Dead Space 3
• Steam AppID of the game: 1238060

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon VII
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.1.1
• Kernel version: 5.6.0-2-amd64
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 5.0-9

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-1238060.log

Symptoms

Like all other EA-published titles I've tried since the inclusion of their former Origin-exclusives, this game seems to install correctly, but after the Origin thin client displays, it throws the error message about being unable to install the game in the specified folder, followed by another error window stating "We are unable to connect to EA servers to activate Dead Space 3 on this computer using your account. Please try again later." Clicking the "Exit" button on the window causes the game to exit.

Reproduction

This happens each time the game is installed and executed from Steam.

Begin with the linked steam-1238060.log and the reported Proton 5.0-9/Linux system details; reproduce the launch from Steam and inspect the Origin installation and activation errors. Done means Dead Space 3 can install and activate without the reported errors. The issue names no source file or test, so resolving it requires locating the relevant compatibility path.