EA App games do not start at all

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues:

• Mirror's Edge: Catalyst

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

(possibly other EA games that force this app, i don't know of any others since i don't have any more)

• Steam AppID of the game:

1172380
1233570

System Information

• GPU: Tested on both a GTX 1060 and an RX 6700 XT, GPU didn't matter
• Driver/LLVM version: latest amdgpu and nvidia 525.60.11
• Kernel version: 5.15 & 6.1
• Proton version: Tried Proton 7.0-5, Experimental and GE-7.42. No difference.

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.

Here's a log using PROTON_LOG=1 of Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order with Proton 7.0-6:

steam-1172380.log.zip

Symptoms

Some EA App pops up with a window saying "LET'S GO!", you install it, wait until it's done, then it pops up, waits for a while, and says "something went wrong, relink your account to continue and try again" (or something like that). These games simply won't launch at all on PC despite the latest fixes to EA App games for the Steam Deck as of 7.0-5.

It's not a system problem, as I also tried on this hardware on both a properly set up Linux Mint and on Garuda Linux (arch based distribution meant for gaming). Same "something went wrong" result.

Reproduction

• Install the game and try to run it. The dumb app just won't let you play.

Please, can we have a fix for EA games on PCs running Linux? I'd like to try Catalyst and Fallen Order without bothering with Windows again.

The payload names no source files or tests; start by reproducing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order or Mirror's Edge: Catalyst with PROTON_LOG=1 and inspect the attached steam-1172380.log.zip. Done means the EA App completes account linking and the affected game launches on the reported Linux setups.