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Staxel

protonopen appid 405710Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#1655 · opened 2018-09-30 by KorinFlakes · updated 2026-10-11 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game
KKorinFlakes 2018-09-30 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Staxel
  • Steam AppID of the game: 405710

System Information

  • GPU: GTX 1060 (6gb)
  • Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 396.54
  • Kernel version: Kernel version: 4.15.0-34
  • My System Info
  • Proton version: 3.7-7 Beta

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-405710.log

Symptoms

Requires dotnet40 to be able to work.

Notes

One of the developers (bartwe) has responded to comments on the games Steam Discussions page saying:

We checked out Proton but currently .net games aren't supported by it.
Staxel uses FNA currently, one blocker is Chromium which we use for UI rendering and issues with mono not supporting and/or having bugs in some of the libraries that we use.

(It's the last post on the page)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/405710/discussions/0/1693785035830392508/?ctp=2

Ggarpu 2022-05-18 github

Out of curiosity, I installed dotnet 4.5.2, and I can get a black screen, but not much else.

999kennetn 2026-10-11 github

I do not claim to fully understand how it works but i got the full game working and running. As it is build with AI as somewhat of a capability testing excersice for my own learning, i do not claidm to fully understand what the winefix actually does. But in case someone do undestand it beter i hope this will inspire someone to make the correct fix.
Multiple tests has been made in an effort to make sure only the necessary steps needed to get the game running is included.

https://github.com/99kennetn/proton-ge-custom (guide to get it running is inside but run at your own risk)
If the guide is followed the game will launch without any launch parameters (although it has to be launched 1 time where it crashes to make the compatdata folder so that a manual dotnet install can be run, i could not get it to automatically run this upon launch)

3 things are needed to get the game to launch and be playable.

  1. full dotnet* install (only tested with dotnet48, so dotnet40 might work) (it needs clr file installed so the mono version is not enough)
  2. disable xalia (can be done with PROTON_USE_XALIA=0 aswell)
  3. a wine patch where a mismatch between a 64bit and 32bit number would make the game crash when tabbing out and nothing could be clicked on (stuck at main menu)

all three are needed. 1+2 needed to get the game to launch and 3 is needed to make it playable.

there are 3 known "issues".

  1. if steamvr is installed it will, on first launch (as far as i have seen), throw 2 dll warnings. these can be ignored
  2. when closing the game it always prompts you if you want to send logs to the developer even though no error has been logged
  3. upon launch, the game can in some cases give a hardware warning if proton is running in lower than win7 mode. easily fixed by setting proton to win7 or win10 with protontrick, but can also be ignored.

I hope anyone who understands this better than me, will be inspired to make the correct fixes and commits needed to proton and wine, as i will not be blindly putting ai build code i do not understand as a request to any of these repo's.

I put it here to let people know, that it is possible to get the full game to run and that it seems to run very smoothly.
Build upon GE-Proton-11-3 (was what i had already installed to test against) and tested on Kubuntu 26.04

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