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Agarest: Generations of War 2

protonopen appid 312790Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#2009 · opened 2018-11-21 by teldon · updated 2024-02-11 · 5 comments · github · game page · search this game
Tteldon 2018-11-21 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Agarest: Generations of War 2
  • Steam AppID of the game: 312790

System Information

  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04
  • GPU: Nvidia GTX1060
  • Driver/LLVM version: 415.13
  • Kernel version: 4.15.0-39-lowlatency
  • Proton version: 3.16

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.

Symptoms

Game fails to start with the following error: "prMovie::Open Unable to connect pins". From what I understand this is related to wine not having proper codec support. Normal workaround would be to use winetricks/protontricks to install wmp10, but wmp10 will NOT install in a 64-bit prefix, which proton uses exclusively, so a 3rd part codec pack is needed. (In my case I used LAVfilters codec pack)

After codec workaround game crashes with quartz error when attempting to play opening movies. Solution is to install quartz.

Final issue is related to gamepad not being properly captured when game starts. Keybard controls work just fine, but when you attempt to save or load with a controller game becomes unresponsive. However, when you go into the settings menu in-game and re-select the controller as your input method, controls work just fine.

Reproduction

First issue is reproduced when attempting to launch the game after a fresh install.
Second issue is reproduced when starting the game after installing a codec pack but before install quartz.
Third issue is reproduced when attempting to save or load without going into the settings and selecting your controller as the input device. Assuming you have a controller plugged in.

Eemoryy 2018-12-02 github

(In my case I used LAVfilters codec pack)

How do you install it?
The installer of LAVFilters codec pack (LAVFilters-0.73.1-Installer.exe) gives me the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\LAV Filters\x64\LAVAudio.ax

Unable to register the DLL/OCX: RegSrv32 failed with exit code 0x3

And then the same for LAVVideo.ax and LAVSplitter.ax too.

(Proton version 3.16-4 beta)

Tteldon 2018-12-03 github

While I'm not sure what causes the issue, if I remember correctly it shouldn't matter because whatever the game needs to play the videos is installed and it works just fine.

HHonkingGoose 2019-01-28 github

Hi,

I'm doing some research for my issue at number 1464. That issue deals with cinematic/video playback. Most of the listed games already have a proton log attached to their issue, but this game does not.

Could somebody be so kind as to upload a proton log from a clean install?

I need to search in the proton log for mentions of MF or quartz, so that I can categorize the game.

Thanks for the help!

HonkingGoose

Kkorodarn 2020-08-14 github

steam-312790.zip

Here's log from current proton

"prMovie:Open - Uanble to connect pins" is the error displayed in application

Here's log from Proton-5.9-GE-5-ST where the video plays, but very slowly, and since the menu seems to use video as well, it's also quite slow until you get past the title screen. Other videos are also horribly slow, but the gameplay seems ok.

steam-312790_1.zip

GGloriousEggroll 2024-02-11 github

These fix video playback:

winetricks wmp9
GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK=protonaudioconverterbin:NONE

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