Crashing on Linux, can't start the game.

[Luna xoxo]

I've been trying to get this game to run on and off for a few weeks now and can't make any progress. I'm not sure if it's related to the 1.7.0 patch i've seen mentioned.

When starting a new game i get past the opening cutscene video but as soon as that finishes the game crashes without rendering any 3d graphics, there is ambient background sounds playing from the scene at the start of the game but that's as far as it gets.

Trying to run a bench mark also crashes, i get the loading scene where the player can run around in the void for a bit but as soon as the benchmark is supposed to start i get a crash and a black screen.

My system exceeds the minimum hardware requirements, I've tried multiple versions of proton, disabled the ubisoft in-game overlay and uninstalled and re-installed the game files several times.

I'm running on a debian OS, origins and odyssey both work flawlessly, I'm hoping mirage and shadows work ok but i'm cautious about buying them given the issues i'm running into with valhalla, does anyone know if these issues affect future games in the AC series too?

[Snipy]

Ubisoft games are not supported on Linux.
You might be able run some. Don't expect have same effect with other.
Also Ubisoft support will not help you, as you using unsupported OS

[Grogan]

For what it's worth, I can at least say that Valhalla works very well for me on Linux. It has crashed occasionally in some areas of England, but I haven't had that happen in some time. (It probably will).

Arch Linux
amdgpu from any kernel I've used since I bought this game
Mesa (currently mesa-25.0.0)
Should work with current Valve Proton (I use a custom proton-tkg with valve's current wine base)

Do you have an Nvidia card? If so, it could be your driver version. (I think I heard 550 was desirable for this game)

I had Mirage working with zero problems too. I didn't finish it though (don't like it) and haven't had it installed in some time.

No game devs/publishers "support" running Windows games on Linux. They may try to accommodate, but they can't really support that. If you want to avoid unhelpful answers like you got, you'd be better off to post questions about playing games on Linux here, in the Steam for Linux forum:

Steam for Linux General Discussions
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/