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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

protonopen appid 939850Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#3024 · opened 2019-08-30 by macktab · updated 2024-11-08 · 16 comments · github · game page · search this game
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Mmacktab 2019-08-30 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
  • Steam AppID of the game: 939850

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-939850.log

Symptoms

Very low FPS (from 0.3 to 8).
Screenshot from 2019-08-31 01-07-11

Reproduction

Just launch the game (low FPS even in main menu).

NNTMan 2019-08-30 github

It's weird that GPU loading so low on your Vega 56 card.
On my AMD Radeon 7 GPU loading is 100% and FPS is 50 in 4K.
Screenshot from 2019-08-31 01-45-49
And it too weird because we are using the same OS, same mesa ACO and same Proton.
steam-939850.log

Mmacktab 2019-08-30 github

Also tried with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 option, no effect.
Also tried with https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tkov/amdvlk/ vulkan, no effect too.

RRussianNeuroMancer 2019-09-01 github

Is controllers work reliably in this game?

NNTMan 2019-09-01 github

Is controllers work reliably in this game?

Yes

RRussianNeuroMancer 2019-09-01 github

Thanks for answer! One of published ProtonDB reports also mention "pictures don't show the video, instead just a black screen" - did you seen same issue on your setup?

Mmozo78 2019-09-01 github

You need mfplat. See this tutorial:
<Link removed by moderator>

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-09-01 github

Hello @mozo78, the workaround you posted is legally problematic and has been removed.

Mmacktab 2019-09-01 github

Working on same system and videocard with another model of cpu/motherboard (Intel Core i7-4770 and AMD Ryzen 7 2700X), seems, game use some cpu instructions, which is not supported in my CPU.

HHolzhaus 2019-09-04 github

Works almost perfect for me on Arch Linux with Proton 4.11-3 and mesa-aco-git 1:19.3.0_devel.115981.f2bed9b344c-1 (AMD Ryzen 2700X, Vega 64).

Some minor issues I encountered:

  • Bonus content is not displayed (could be some video codec problem I guess).
  • Premonitions are not displayed either.
  • There are input field focus issues when entering a player name in couch co-op.

System Information: https://gist.github.com/Holzhaus/c977f23336da8f154245bb0050f53908

AAwesamLinux 2019-10-30 github

System Information

  • GPU: RX VEGA 56
  • GPU Driver: 19.3.0~git1910291605.f9ad73cdfd2~b~mesaaco0 (ppa:ernstp/mesaaco)
  • Kernel version: 5.4.0-050400rc5-lowlatency
  • Distro version: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina (64 bit) (Cinnamon)
  • Proton version: 4.11-7

Compatibility Report

Game is playable out of the box but it skips videos.

Videos work after installing these Windows Media Foundation files:
colorcnv.dll mf.dll mferror.dll mfplat.dll mfplay.dll mfreadwrite.dll msmpeg2adec.dll msmpeg2vdec.dll sqmapi.dll

Audio during videos will also have some glitches/crackling unless you set Steam launch option "PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%"

Log provided is of playing the game for a bit with these fixes:

media_info.txt
steam-939850-proton-4.11-7.log
system_info.txt

This is another game for issue #1464
Game uses mfplat and Codecs are: MPEG-4, AVC + AAC

UPDATE V2!
Guide for fixing the remaining broken Videos

Some of the cut-scene videos currently shipped with the game are corrupt/not standard compliant. So they may or may not work. This is also a problem on Windows (source: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Man_of_Medan#Fixing_video_playback_for_Windows_7_and_10_users)

On Linux this can be fixed with xxd that often comes pre-installed with most distros. To do this manually type the command xxd -s 0x10 video.mp4 | xxd -r > videofixed.mp4 that would fix the header of the broken video.

I made a simple script to automate this:
fixvideos.sh.zip

Instructions:

  1. Unzip and copy the fixvideos.sh to your "/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/The Dark Pictures Anthology - Man of Medan/" directory
  2. Make the fixvideos.sh file executable
  3. Open up the terminal, navigate to the games folder and run the fixvideos.sh script "./videos.sh"
  4. Wait.. this will take a few minutes
  5. When done, you will see that the broken videos have been replaced and the old ones have been renamed to something.bak. And the fixed videos will play with VLC (the old ones didn't).

(I changed the script to display progress because running it can take some time)

JJhackler 2021-06-19 github

It's weird that GPU loading so low on your Vega 56 card.
On my AMD Radeon 7 GPU loading is 100% and FPS is 50 in 4K.
Screenshot from 2019-08-31 01-45-49
And it too weird because we are using the same OS, same mesa ACO and same Proton.
steam-939850.log

Hi while obviously on a newer proton mesa and aco at this point I have same issue on my vega 56 for this game. 22fps lock almost no gpu usage what soever

JJhackler 2021-11-22 github

Has anyone figured out this vega issue?

AAwesamLinux 2022-12-11 github

System Information

  • GPU: AMD RX 5700
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 22.2.3
  • Kernel version: 6.0.12-300.fc37.x86_64
  • Proton version: experimental-bleeding-edge-7.0-30853-20221211

Game has received a major update v1.19, as of this version:

New Issue:

Game does not launch, a window pops up with error message "The following components are required to run this program: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime"

To fix this I had to install vcrun2019 using Protontricks with the command "protontricks 939850 vcrun2019"

Solved issues:

  • Videos are working now out of the box, it appears because they have changed to Bink2 video codec
  • No longer seems to be affected by the OpenSSL/SHA extentions bug.

steam-939850-fail.log
steam-939850-success.log
system_info.txt

OOlivka1121 2022-12-29 github

Good afternoon, the game does not work and an error occurs.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan. works correctly - The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. Help fix the problem #
Uploading 99EFBB09-5A91-4E9F-874C-115524FCB8CE.png…

AAwesamLinux 2023-02-04 github

System Information

  • GPU: AMD RX 5700
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 23.0.0-rc4
  • Kernel version: 6.2.0-0.rc6.20230202git9f266ccaa2f5.46.fc38.x86_64
  • Proton version: proton-7.0-6e

Everything works now out of the box from clean install :tada:
(manual install of vcrun2019 is no longer needed)

Including logs of launching without issues just for future reference:
steam-939850.log
system_info.txt

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-11-08 github

The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan (939850)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8224.
@err0r2k posted on 2024-11-08T17:34:46:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan Version 1.19
  • Steam AppID of the game: 939850

System Information

  • GPU: RTX 2080 Mobile (discrete-gpu, no optimus)
  • Video driver version: 555.58 and 560.35.03
  • Kernel version: 6.1.0-22
  • Link to full system information report as Gist: My Gist
  • Proton version: 7.0-6, 8.0-5, 9.0-3 and some Proton-GE versions

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-939850-dx12.log
steam-939850-dx11.log

Symptoms

After the first loading screen, the FPS dropping from 60 to 30-40 FPS. And the FPS will not stabilize. Lowering the resolution, quality and borderless-windowed, windowed or fullscreen mode makes no change. Locking the FPS to 30 FPS are also unstable. Video The mouse cursor look only like this in the recorded video, which I made with the new Steam record mode.

  • The GSYNC Monitor refresh rate was lowered to 60 Hz -> same problem.
  • Changing the Direct X Version does not help.
  • Same problem on Arch with recent Kernel and NVIDIA Drivers.
  • Run the game with or without mangohud and game mode -> same problem
  • KDE Compositor is disabled
  • X11 or Wayland -> same problem
  • Works on Windows without problems on the same Hardware.

Reproduction

Start the game The Dark Pictures Anthology Man of Medan with DirectX 11 or 12.

Proton versions

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