Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition (1922560)

[StealthPrison]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 1922560

System Information

• GPU: RX 6600
• Video driver version: Mesa 23.1.5
• Kernel version: 6.4.9-arch1-1
• Proton version: GE 8-11, Experimental, & 8.0-3

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.

Symptoms

When running the game, the Origin installer runs, however after which it keeps a blank floating window open without the game itself running. Following a file integrity check, or reinstall, the same process happens again, origin installer works, etc.

To mitigate this, I have tried following what was suggested in protondb (adding "dxgi.customVendorId = 1c06" to a file dxvk.conf).

I have run proton with logs enabled and attached them here;

steam-1922560.log

Reproduction

Run the game with any version of steam.

[waspennator]

https://www.ea.com/games/plants-vs-zombies/plants-vs-zombies-garden-warfare-2/news/pvzgw2-anticheat-update

Ea is planning on breaking linux support soon.

[ThisNekoGuy]

Log of their anticheat update breaking compatibility on the Steam Deck: steam-1922560 (GW2).log It also gives a wonderful window telling us Wine isn't supported, even if you use the HideWineExports registry trick :upside_down_face:

[robotman40]

Log of their anticheat update breaking compatibility on the Steam Deck: steam-1922560 (GW2).log It also gives a wonderful window telling us Wine isn't supported, even if you use the HideWineExports registry trick 🙃

If the game still throws that error when you hide Wine, it is almost certainly doing other tricks (such as checking for Wine specific registry keys, programs [like winecfg], or drives)

Quite a lot of effort in blocking Wine that could have gone to making their anti-cheat more "effective."