Battlefield 2 (24860)

[AQDuck97]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Battlefield 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 24860

System Information

• GPU: RX 580, RTX 3080
• Video driver version: Mesa 23.1.4, Nvidia 535.86.05
• Kernel version: 6.4.7-zen
• Link to full system information report as Gist: Gist
• Proton version: GE-Proton 7, Proton 8, Proton 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

Freezes on the EA intro ("EA Games, challenges everyth-") then crash, does not happen on every launch with Proton 7 but 100% of times on Proton 8

Reproduction

Launch BF2 with Proton 7 and up

steam-24860.log

[kisak-valve]

Hello @justbugs97, just to rule it out as a factor, can you temporarily remove or disable MangoHUD and check if that has an effect?

[AQDuck97]

I have Mangohud on global so would have to restart my PC for that, but I've had this issue for a long time, before I even installed Mangohud, so I can rule that out.

[AQDuck97]

Log without mangohud
steam-24860.log