Stray (1332010)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Stray
• Steam AppID of the game: 1332010

System Information

• GPU: AMD RX 6700XT
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 22.1.3, amdgpu 22.10.2.50102-1408194
• Kernel version: 5.14.21
• Link to full system information report: sysinfo.txt
• Proton version: Proton Experimental (Also tried with stable 7.0-3 and recent Proton GE 7-24, no luck)

I confirm:

• [ x ] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [ x ] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

• Default proton version (and many others) exits without any messages
• When prefix is cleaned and changed to Proton Experimental user is presented with MessageBox dialog stating that MSVC++ libraries are missing -- but I find the latter hard to believe given the prefix has every single one under the sun seems to be provided by default.

Proton log: steam-1332010.log

Error dialog: "The following component(s) are required to run this program: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime"

Reproduction

• Install the game and try to launch: Nothing happens with whichever the default proton version the Steam runtime decided and prematurely exits with no dialog.
• Clean the prefix and try forcing any other version of Proton, be it: stable 7.0-3, experimental or 3rd party none of them seem to work out of box
• Using Proton Experimental at least gives the dialog complaining about MSVC++ libs
• Tried forcing installation of vc2019 and mfc2015 via winetricks/protontricks but this didn't seem to work either

Start by reviewing steam-1332010.log and sysinfo.txt, then reproduce the launch failure with the listed Proton versions and clean-prefix conditions. Done means identifying the cause of Stray's failed launch or missing MSVC++ Runtime message and verifying that the game starts successfully.