Layers of Fear VR (appid 1183030)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Layers of Fear VR
• Steam AppID of the game: 1183030

System Information

• GPU: RX 6800 XT
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.3.4-1
• Kernel version: 5.10.15-120-tkg-bmq
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Patola/6caf42ff20f69f1bc95b527ef7714a31
• Proton version: 5.13-6 (also tried 5.0-10)

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-1183030.log
steam_logs.zip

Symptoms

Layers of Fear VR starts correctly, even starts playing. But after a few seconds of playing, it crashes steamvr completely, the game kind of continues playing but the HMD turns off and sound changes to the regular speakers. SteamVR says "Oh no! SteamVR has encountered an unexpected problem." (screenshot attached)

Reproduction

• Start the game (Valve Index)
• You can choose "New Game", or "Continue". It will start loading.
• After loading you'll appear inside the house, just before the first door. A few seconds later, no matter what you do or don't do, the game will crash.
• Since it seems it also screws SteamVR IPC, even restarting SteamVR will not make VR work. A reboot makes SteamVR work again.

Note: the current steam log has crashed even before the inside the house scene even appeared, shortly after the loading screen disappeared. I also included the most recent logs under ~/.steam (error.log and the files under steam/logs/) for good measure.

Start by reproducing Layers of Fear VR with Proton 5.13-6 and the Valve Index, following the listed loading sequence. Inspect steam-1183030.log, steam_logs.zip, ~/.steam/error.log, and the files under ~/.steam/steam/logs/. Done means the game no longer crashes SteamVR after entering the house and SteamVR remains usable without a reboot.