F1 23 (2108330)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: F1 23
• Steam AppID of the game: 2108330

System Information

• GPU: RTX 2060
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 535.54.03
• Kernel version: 6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/caoimhebyrne/39496d498a592edfb61d4e0e13377adb
• Proton version: experimental-8.0-20230627

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-2108330.log

Symptoms

The game seems to start fine, but once you get through the title sequence and the "Press any button" screen, the game will lock after it transitions to the News screen.

It seems to do this automatically for me, but I played on Windows before, so maybe it's doing it automatically since I haven't played in a while.

I've tried spamming buttons before the freeze happens to try and close the news screen, but that doesn't seem to work. Whilst the screen has frozen, I can still hear audio in the background playing properly.

Here's a screenshot of where my game freezes for reference:

Some other relevant notes:

• I am running under an up-to-date release of Fedora 38 as of July 3rd at 9pm GMT+1.
• Steam is running under Flatpak, with flatpak update saying that there is 'Nothing to do'.
• I verified the game's installation files with Steam to make sure there was no issue there, and it didn't raise any complaints.

Reproduction

1. Open the game
2. Press any button when it asks you to
3. Wait for the news screen to automatically open (or press the "News" button, maybe?)
4. Observe that the game freezes, GNOME eventually asks you if you want to force quit it on GNOME distributions.

Begin with the attached steam-2108330.log and the listed reproduction steps, checking the transition to the News screen under Proton experimental-8.0-20230627 on Fedora 38. Compare the freeze with the provided system information and report; done means the News screen no longer locks the game, or the compatibility cause is documented with a verified workaround.