Atmospherics stuck on low in God of War 2018

[babiescanfly]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: God of War
• Steam AppID of the game: 1593500

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon Graphics
• Video driver version: 3.6
• Kernel version: 6.1.52-valve19-1-neptune-61 (64-bit)
• Link to full system information report as Gist:https://gist.github.com/babiescanfly/fef74daedc9ba3c5136426b368b1b1ff
• Proton version: 8

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

Even if atmospherics in the graphics menu are set to anything other than low (including presets) the game will still use the low version. If a custom setting is used the game will always reset atmospherics to low.

Reproduction

Always occours. Can't find an instance where it doesn't.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @babiescanfly, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5511#issuecomment-2038461146.