— Tom Clark 2022/05/03 09:50

Well this game crashed a lot. I've tried various versions of Proton and a bunch of different settings and nothing really cures it. The most persistent crash has been reported a lot on ProtonDB.com, the “ERR_GFX_STATE” crash.

I tried putting in an Nvidia 1080TI to see if older driver and hardware helped. It did not.

Anyway, eventually, at times, I could get hours of gameplay without any crashes. If the game crashes twice in close succession I'd reboot my system and that would often clear things up for a long while. Also, changing textures from high to ultra and ultra to high each time I started the game seemed to help as well. Could just be a coincidence.

I settled on the launch options: PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1

I installed ProtonUp-Qt which is a great way to install and manage Glorious Eggroll forks of Proton. The latest GE-Proton7-15 worked as good as (if not better) than any other version for me.