Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (17480)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
• Steam AppID of the game: 17480

System Information

• GPU: Radeon VII
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 23.1.0
• Kernel version: 5.19.0-41
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 8.0-2

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-17480.log

Symptoms

Overall the game works well but there seems to be a long delay, about two minutes, in the start-up. Observation of the process table shows RA3.exe running, but only after the delay does ra3_1.12.game show up and the title screen is displayed.

In contrast, Red Alert 3: Uprising (#6459) does not have the same issue, neither do Tiberium Wars (#1187) or Kane's Wrath (#477)

Reproduction

I simply ran the game under Proton 8.0-2 with no special commands. Concerned with the apparent lack of activity, I observed the process table manually.

Previous report was in #402, RA3 mis-labelled as RA3: Uprising.

Start with issue #6800 and the attached steam-17480.log, then compare the startup behavior with reports #6459, #1187, and #477. Review previous report #402 for context. Done means identifying the cause of the two-minute delay and confirming that Red Alert 3 reaches its title screen without it under Proton.