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Sid Meier's Ace Patrol

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ValveSoftware/Proton#1631 · opened 2018-09-28 by jalefkowit · updated 2021-11-02 · 4 comments · github
Jjalefkowit 2018-09-28 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Sid Meier's Ace Patrol
  • Steam AppID of the game: 244070

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-244070.log

Symptoms

Game never starts. Steam reports "Running..." in the list of games, but it just sits there for a minute or so and then the "Running..." label goes away.

Reproduction

  1. Double-click "Sid Meier's Ace Patrol" in list of games in Steam to launch
Tthaewrapt 2021-10-29 github

Does this one also utilize CEG DRM?

Tthaewrapt 2021-10-31 github

Yes it does, parent issue for reference: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/753

Both Ace Patrol and Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies now start and are playable.

Jjalefkowit 2021-11-01 github

I can't speak to whether these titles use CEG DRM, but they both still fail to start on my machine (which is different than the one I was using when I originally filed this issue three years ago). I've tried manually forcing them to use both Proton 6.3-7 and Proton Experimental, neither one works.

Tthaewrapt 2021-11-02 github

@jalefkowit You need Steam Beta client as well, and it's for now working on Proton Experimental only.

Also, for CEG-enabled games it's showing something like "Steam servers are not available (or can't process request) at the moment" on a regular Proton before trying to update required dependencies on the first run, and if working (Steam Beta + Proton Experimental for now) it's gonna install DirectX, VC redistributables and stuff like that, then try to run the game.

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