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Little Nightmares

protonopen appid 424840Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#1324 · opened 2018-09-08 by ghost · updated 2025-10-18 · 9 comments · github · game page · search this game
?ghost 2018-09-08 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Little Nightmares
  • Steam AppID of the game: 424840

System Information

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.

steam-424840.log

Symptoms

screenshot from 2018-09-08 08-35-47
Shows that when trying to load the game.

Reproduction

Try to load the game.

Aah- 2018-09-25 github

This starts for me when ran with the "-onethread" argument.

Llucifertdark 2018-09-25 github

If anyone else is getting crackling noises while playing, installing xact with winetricks will sort those out.

Aah- 2018-09-25 github

Yep, can confirm @lucifertdark. With -onethread and "protontricks 424840 xact" it runs perfectly for me.

From debugging it, seems like there's a threading issue that results in a null pointer in the render thread during startup. After looking around the internet it also seems to affect Windows, so it might even be a genuine bug in the game that just happens to affect wine more reliably. Not sure if we're losing any performance due to running it with -onethread, still at 60 fps for me.

NNoXPhasma 2018-10-01 github

Using -onethread works for me as well, however I do have crackling audio, even with xact installed.

Llucifertdark 2018-10-01 github

Setting xaudio2_6 & xaudio2_7 to Native may help to fix the crackling.

NNoXPhasma 2018-10-01 github

This works, thank you!

NNTMan 2019-02-05 github

On my setup game immediately crashes after start.
steam-424840.log

screenshot from 2019-02-06 00-39-47

Ssimifor 2023-09-02 github

Fresh proton 8.0-3 prefix, the game launched fine without extra launch arguments, music worked fine too. There was however an issue with the aspect ratio (my monitor is 16:10)
Little Nightmares 2023-09-02_17:52:17
Turning off fullscreen fixed this issue, and after doing that and turning it on back again the issue didn't resurface
Little Nightmares 2023-09-02_17:53:38
Weirdly enough, I wasn't able to reproduce the aspect ratio issue, I tried deleting the configuration folder, and later deleting the prefix, but the game started normally both times.

Oopyate 2025-10-18 github

Not an issue, just something that happened:

After biting the ghost's neck, half way through the next cutscene I got a popup saying "fatal error", then I rebooted the deck and now when I start the game, I see this.

Image

Trying again, I managed to resume my game, but had to do the ghost/mirror level all over again.

Managed to complete the game after that.

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