Planetside 2 (218230)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: PlanetSide 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 218230

System Information

• GPU: RTX 2070
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 495.44
• Kernel version: 5.14
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/ProjectSynchro/f0d4e4f102ca29c71a683ea49dd4df7e
• Proton version: Proton Experimental (bleeding-edge branch)

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-218230.log

Symptoms

The launcher for this game does not render correctly, and first spawns a black and then white window. You can still interact with what should be on the window.

Looking in the proton log shows multiple instances of eglCreateWindowSurface failed with error EGL_BAD_ALLOC.

Running this with Proton-6.20-GE-1 fixes rendering issues with the launcher, so there is a patch-set out there that fixes this. Which one is beyond me.. Launching the game itself is futile however, due to how Battleye support has been implemented.

Once logged in launch the game with Proton Experimental while running the Steam Client beta and ensuring the Battleye Runtime is installed. Click where the 'Play Now' button should be and the game seems to launch.

Plays well with average slowdown. Haven't seen any graphical glitches in game.

Reproduction

1. Launch the game using Proton Experimental while running the Steam Client beta and ensuring the Battleye Runtime is installed.
2. Observe the rendering issues with the launcher, rendering the game unplayable without using a custom build of proton to login.

Start by reproducing the launcher failure with Proton Experimental using the listed reproduction steps, then inspect steam-218230.log for the EGL_BAD_ALLOC errors. Compare the behavior with Proton-6.20-GE-1, which reportedly renders the launcher correctly. Done means the launcher renders normally under Proton Experimental and the game can be launched without relying on a custom Proton build.