I got this info from ChatGPT but I honestly don't know any better:
apparently this magnification.dll is the issue because wine is unable to emulate it, same with proton. This game is simply unrunnable under Linux. Though correct me if I am wrong.


This is exactly the problem. It is identified ...

same for me. I did pretty much the same as you. I do have a VM where I pass a GPU through and it works fine in there. its really weird considering its apparently brand new. Im getting a feeling they more or less reverse engineered war in the pacific with all of the ancient things it does almost 1 ...

I also run Cachy, I tried setting up a custom wine prefix and it complains about..

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function magnification.dll.MagInitialize called in wow64 32-bit code (0x7b5c98f7).

I tried to do a Library Override in winecfg, and a few other things like copying the native dll ...