After some very brief reading it seems that my Intel HD Graphics card is just literally too old and no one cares about bringing software emulation support to it.
Am I correct in my assessment?
I'm just trying to get it to play on my T420 laptop when I'm bored.
Hello @mihaiqc, your Intel / Sandybridge graphics does not support Vulkan, which is used by default with DXVK to support DirectX 10/11. You might have some luck with adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to the game's launch options to get Proton to use the DirectX to OpenGL render path.
Even then, the min specs for this game far exceed the rendering power of an Intel HD 3000.
I just tested it using "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" right before I saw your answer.
The game works decently well enough on "Low".
Surprisingly.
Name of the game with compatibility issues: Chess Ultra
Steam AppID of the game: 518060
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti
Driver/LLVM version: 450.66
Kernel version: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Link to full system information report as Gist.
Proton version: 5.0-9
[ x ] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.
Attempts to launch the game, a blank "icon" appears in my KDE taskbar momentarily, then my desktop freezes momentarily, then I can move my mouse and the game window never opens.
Run the game with Proton 5.0-9
proton 5.0-9x1 2020-09PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1x2 2019-04PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%x2 2019-04
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
steam-518060 (1).log
Symptoms
Loads dependencies and requirements then shuts down without booting with a window with:
"DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine."
Reproduction
Literally try to run the game.