ValveSoftware / ValveSoftware/Proton
Mass Effect 2 (2010) Edition (2362420)
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Description
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Mass Effect 2 (2010) Edition
- Steam AppID of the game: 2362420
System Information
- GPU: Steam Deck
- Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 22.2.0
- Kernel version: 5.13.0
- Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/trainlos/466c48dfc0bd4c8c080e99cee3a1d33f
- Proton version: 7.0-6, Experimental
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.
Symptoms
Attempting to launch the game gives the error:
"Failed to initialize the physics system. Please ensure you have an updated version of the PhysX System Software installed."
Reproduction
- Launch game
- Wait for EA app to start
- Game throws error and crashes
Contributor guide
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the reproduction steps and the attached steam-2362420.zip report, comparing the Proton 7.0-6 and Experimental results around the PhysX initialization failure. Done means Mass Effect 2 launches on the reported Steam Deck setup without the initialization error or crash.
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Assessment
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100