The Shapeshifting Detective - Black Screen

protonopen appid 898650Game compatibility - Unofficial

ValveSoftware/Proton#1980 · opened 2018-11-16 by waylon531 · updated 2019-07-09 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

Wwaylon531 2018-11-16 github

Compatibility Report

The Shapeshifting Detective
898650

System Information

GPU: RX 580
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 18.2.4
Kernel version: 4.19.1
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/waylon531/8cd41de369ae0141e85d67f624041386
Proton version: Tested on both 3.7-8 and 3.16-4 Beta

I confirm:

[ * ] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
[ * ] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-898650.log

Symptoms

Upon opening the game there is a black screen. I can get into the steam overlay and the game grabs the mouse but there is no audio and no way to get past the black screen.

Reproduction

Open the game.

AAwesamLinux 2019-07-09 github

GPU: RX VEGA 56
Driver/LLVM version: 19.2.0-devel - padoka PPA/9.0.0
Kernel version: 5.0.13-050013-lowlatency
Distro version: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit) (Cinnamon Desktop)
Proton version: 4.2-9
System information: system_info.txt

media_info.txt
steam-898650.log

I can confirm that the game launches to a black screen, in the log I see:
102460.172:0027:0028:fixme:mfplat:MFStartup (131184, 0): stub

#1464 Looks like a game that uses mfplat.dll and the videos are: MPEG-4 AVC+AAC

DLLs

mfplat.dllx1 2019-07